In collaboration with @camhnews, we’re debunking 8 common myths about autism to better understand and support neurodivergent people.
👉 Scroll through to learn more and let us know in the comments if there are any other myths you’ve heard that you’d like us to debunk!
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- Sociodemographic Disparities in Intervention Service Utilization in Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | September 2016
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- Spatial clusters of autism births and diagnoses point to contextual drivers of increased prevalence | Social Science & Medicine on ScienceDirect | October 2013
- A Scoping Review of Health Disparities in Autism Spectrum Disorder | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | July 2017
- What Is the Male-to-Female Ratio in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | June 2017
- Gender ratio in a clinical population sample, age of diagnosis and duration of assessment in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder | Sage Journals | January 2016
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- The Language of Autism | Adult Autism Health Resources – Health Harvard Edu
- Writing Respectfully: Person-First and Identity-First Language | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | April 2023
- Identity-First Language | Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
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- Understanding Stimming: Repetitive Behaviors with a Purpose | Psychiatry.org – American Psychiatric Association | December 2020
- Gender Identity in Autism: Sex Differences in Social Affiliation with Gender Groups| Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | April 2018
- Sexual Orientation in Autism Spectrum Disorder | Autism Research | January 2018
- Autism and Social Skills: Challenging Misconceptions | Psych Central | May 2022
- Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits | Autism Research on PubMed Central | August 2022
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- Revealing the Double Empathy Problem: It’s not that autistic* people lack empathy. Rather, their different neurotypes and experiences may make it harder for nonautisic people to understand them—and vice versa | The ASHA Leader Archive | April 2020
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- Double Empathy: Why Autistic People Are Often Misunderstood | Frontiers for Young Minds | May 2011
- Autism & the double empathy problem | Embrace Autism | January 2024
- Do you feel me? Autism, empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem | Sage Journals | May 2024
- What About the Girls? Sex-Based Differences in Autistic Traits and Adaptive Skills | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders on PubMed Central | May 2019
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