TinDrum2d ago

what we thought we knew about autism and... whatnot

'For decades, researchers had been measuring the wrong thing. Conflating communication style differences with empathy deficits produced dramatically inflated effect sizes and an illusion of empathy impairment'

#autism #actuallyAutistic #science #psychology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people

What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

Psychology Today
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@oscarjiminy Well if scientists would start listening to us and stop "experimenting" on us, we could've told them this decades ago
Mar 23 at 11:44amWeb
Show threadTaran Rampersad1d ago

@Lydie @oscarjiminy the expansion of identified autism was likely key.

The broadening within the DSM V, which removed asperger's, probably had a lot to do with that.

So they went from niche cases to... a lot more... so the understanding comes to researchers as a revolution. But everyone is just the same.

Now the task is getting it reflected properly I their datasets.

They took off blindfolds and now are surprised.

So everything has to be revisited.