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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"autistic people"”.
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Privileging Autistics of Color: A Human Rights Approach to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy
… project examines the social construction of autistic people of color through the pathology paradigm and the associated human rights violations. The purpose of the project is to disrupt the pathology paradigm by privileging voices of autistic people of color in professional development …
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Why is autism a disability? Examining an argument for intersectional neurodiversity
… why autism is seen as a disability when many autistic people perceive autism as a natural difference that relates to the way their mind works. Autistic people struggle to find academic information to explain their experiences and often turn to online resources for validation. To create the …
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Autisté v české společnosti v posledních padesáti letech
This bachelor thesis tries to describe the autistic life in the Czech Republic during the last decades. It deals with the autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) both of children and adults. The theme is how the autistic people manage(d) everyday acts and necessary affairs, e. g. fFinding a job. I …
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Why is the hidden disability of autism so visible in mental health inpatient services? The autistic view from personal stories.
Autistic individuals are overrepresented on mental health wards in the UK compared to in the general population. This has implications for the provision of mental health care. It is important to understand why this minority group appear to be more inclined to reach mental health crisis and require …
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“I wouldn't call it a disorder, it's just that my brain works differently to neurotypical people”: An exploration of how autistic people maintain their well-being and construct mental health support
… towards a focus on the voice of neurodivergent people and away from applying therapy designed for a neurotypical population. This research uses a qualitative thematic analysis to explore the experiences of autistic people in maintaining and understanding their own well-being, as well as the …
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Nostalgia and wellbeing in autistic and non-autistic young adults
… first to explore whether the same is true for autistic individuals – a group of people who experience the world differently and often experience lower wellbeing compared to non-autistic people. This thesis adopted a mixed methods approach exploring nostalgia and wellbeing in autistic and …
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SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS INFLUENCING CAMOUFLAGING BEHAVIOURS AND THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES IN AUTISTIC AND NON-AUTISTIC ADULTS
Background: Camouflaging in autistic people (i.e. strategies to modify behaviour, mask autism-related characteristics, or conform to uncomfortable social situations to appear more “neurotypical”) is associated with poorer mental health and may render one’s support needs being overlooked. While …
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The perception and experience of autism expressed through visual constructs
I am an autistic person and I perceive the world differently to neurotypical, non-autistic people. This study aims to explore this difference in perception by analysing my experience of autism and looking to express this difference through artistic practice. Through my research I have determined …
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When Being Normal Isn't the Goal: How Therapists Co-Transform Beyond Normal with their Autistic Clients
… as "autism" have haunted and harmed countless autistic people, all under the guises of medical care and treatment. These unjust events precipitated from rigid Western scientific and cultural paradigms about what is real and what is normal, leading to the deep misunderstanding and social …
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Exploring Camouflaging in Autism Beyond the Diagnostic/Disability Threshold
… to conceptualize autism, which can impact how autistic people navigate the world and are treated by others. It has been conceptualized through a medical model that identifies deficits (Ritvo, 1983) and through a neurodiversity/disability model that depicts autistic traits as natural variations …
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The Price Of “Normal”: Masking In The Autistic Community
<p>The Autistic community has a rich history that often includes poor mental health outcomes due to the increased stress and anxiety surrounding the push to have “normal” social skills. On Twitter, many autistic people utilize a hashtag to connect with others in the online Autistic community. This …
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The neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autism
… mechanisms of perceptual inference in autistic individuals. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sensory perception, its neurocomputational framework, and its role in autism. It provides an overview of the theories and models of perception in autism and presents the overarching aims of …
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Exploring the Camouflaging Experiences of Early-Diagnosed Autistic Females
… behavioural and cognitive strategies used by autistic individuals to hide their autistic traits. These strategies are often intended to help autistic people adapt to social norms and fit in with their neurotypical peers. Camouflaging is a key factor of the female autism phenotype, as such …
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Autistic Workers: Invisible People
Existing literature about autistic workers concentrates on the troubles autistics have in the workplace; these problems are linked back to documented deficits in autistic people, thereby constructing a picture of autistic workers as people who need to be helped. There have been no academic studies …
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Flexibility, uncertainty and anxiety in autism
… rule shifts. As environmental conditions change, people experience heightened uncertainty and may struggle to predict future outcomes. Difficulties representing and responding to uncertainty are prevalent in autism as well as anxiety disorders, which co-occur in approximately half of autistic …
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Predictive Perception in Autism
… contribute to social difficulties faced by autistic people, through the lens of the double empathy problem and second-person neuroscience.<br/>Chapter 2 examined how spoken intentions and visual evidence guide predictive social perception. Across four experiments, results supported a …
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Autistic Youth Experiences of Coerced Assimilation in the Context of Enforced "Social Skills" Practice: Findings and recommendations from a mixed-methods participatory analysis project
Autistic youth are driven by people around them (peers, educators, authorities) to perform “normality” overtop of themselves to avoid ostracization and punishment — this is Autistic Masking. Sometimes, masking of Autistic traits is formally taught through “Social Skills” classes or therapies. This …
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Transtorno do espectro autista: formação de professores para a inclusão no ensino fundamental
Aiming the inclusion of autistic children in regular schools was created the law N o 12.764, establishing the "Protection National Policy of the Person with Autistic Spectrum Disorder." Thinking about this question, this study has as general objective to analyze how is the training of teachers with …
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Being and becoming : transition from higher education for emerging adults on the autism spectrum
… with respect to the differences experienced by autistic people making the transition from higher education. The findings from this thesis have implications for higher education, employers and service-providers regarding policy and practice, particularly with respect to improving transitional …
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Experiences of camouflaging by AFAB University students with ADHD in South Africa
… disorder that continues to be underdiagnosed in people assigned female at birth (AFAB). Increasingly, the gender disparity in ADHD prevalence rates is attributed to differences in the disorder's presentation. A factor that is yet to be explored is the role that camouflaging, or acting …
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