Break the stigma: autism. The future of research on autism stigma - towards multilevel, contextual & global understanding

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Journal article of the type Editorial ( ; english)

Ava Gurba * , Morgan McNair‬ , April Hargreaves , Nichole Scheerer , Catalina Ng Sau Man , Matthew Lerner
Break the stigma: autism. The future of research on autism stigma - towards multilevel, contextual & global understanding published in the journal "Frontiers in psychiatry" vol.15, 3 pages , doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1504429

*One co-author has publicly identified as autistic. [Learn more about this mention]

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Approaches to understanding and supporting autistic people in the 21st century have shifted from individual-level, often negatively valanced views, to an embrace of the fact that autistic people - like all people - exist in interaction with their context. Additionally, modern approaches have embraced neurodiversity, the idea that all people, regardless of neurocognitive abilities, have value, and highlights ways an individual is shaped in dialogue with their environment (1–4). However, the world is not built with neurodivergence in mind, and when individuals struggle, these difficulties are often pathologized - and stigmatized - across levels of societal experience: public, interpersonal, and internal (Bottema-Beutel et al.).

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