Autism, Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

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Alignment to autistic culture has been encouraged amongst the autistic community in recent years, via the neurodiversity movement, which advocates self-identification as autistic and the championing of neurological differences (Chamak et al. 2008; Ortega 2009). It is important to note a small number in the current sample aligned only to autistic culture, which might suggest that exploring and committing to autistic identity is rare amongst autistic adolescents, and may take time. This could be related to the relatively low mean age of the current sample ( M=13.8), especially given identity development is known to continue into young adulthood (Kroger et al. 2010a, b). Indeed, Cooper et al. ( 2017) found positive associations between autism identification and mental health in a sample of autistic adults. Prejudice is an antipathy towards another person based upon pre-existing belief or opinion, resulting from some form of social categorisation or membership of a particular group. It relies upon a stereotypical characterisation, or generalisation, of others, which is not grounded in evidence or experience. In this sense, prejudicial views are not based upon rational judgements and are inherently unjust. This fracturing of self, this separation driven by this narrative, this is what causes us to be alone. Our responsibility as the organisation that ran Mendip House is to be as open as possible when things go wrong, to take action to fix this and to continue to listen to autistic people, families and other providers about what we need to do differently. We have tried to do all these things.

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There is little evidence on how autistic people navigate their identity in terms of acculturation to autistic culture. Kenny et al. ( 2016) found that most autistic adults and their families preferred identity-first terminology (‘autistic’) to person-first terminology (‘person with autism’), as they stated that autism forms an integral part of the person. The neurodiversity movement advocates self-identification as autistic and viewing autism as a positive identity that needs no cure (Chamak et al. 2008; Ortega 2009). Qualitative evidence suggests that some autistic adolescents take pride in being autistic (Cage et al. 2016), and some view autism as part of ‘who they were’, and they had come to accept their differences (Humphrey & Lewis 2008). As with anything there are negative aspects to Autism, for an Autistic person, but that does not mean that Autism has to be negative.Identity-based research has generated great interest, which has resulted in many ways of studying identity, including a variety of definitions of the concept and a wide variety of research methodologies. Two measures were used in the current study to investigate different aspects of identity, however both had methodological limitations and highlight the subjective nature of measuring such a broad construct. In particular, the AIS measure has not been widely used and the internal consistency for the autistic scale was onlyacceptable using the current sample, which raises issues of reliability. Furthermore, the method of analysis for this measure, suggested by Jarrett ( 2014), involved separating participants into four acculturation groups. Thistechnique further reduced the sample sizes in each comparison group, which affects the validity and robustness of findings.

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The Conversation’ is published in conjunction with 79 universities full of the next generation of professionals who will be working in the field of Autism. Person C doesn’t do things the same as the others = Person C has a behavioural deficit which must be fixed. When young people like Oliver McGowan are dying in hospitals because health staff don’t understand Autism.Why are we still diagnosing Autism in adults and children in the same ways and from the same criteria; and using a criteria which only identifies behaviours exagerrated by anxiety? Goodman A, Goodman R. Strengths and dif Everyone knows about Fight or Flight (and the less often spoken about option of freeze), the human reaction to stress and fear.