Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland @heasutherland.com · Nov 5 … and this hostility can be due to “autistic deficits” (participants' words), misunderstandings, or people’s histories with trauma/ableism. Also a) aut community is still trying to work out what being authentically autistic looks like! and b) autistic people are not monolithic + “we’re all human”.
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Conclusions: framing autism as a soc-comm style is likely to help bridge DEP gap; honesty is v important in aut style; lots of peripheral factors that cause soc-comm disablement; and we need to improve understanding of aut community (esp. online) dynamics and influence.