The links between gender, autism, and anxiety explored ... or are they?
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In a native ad placement from the Autism Phenome Project and Autism Speaks, via the HealthDay wire service, presented information about findings that were to be presented last week at the International Society for Autism Research meeting, in Stockholm. It’s important to note that findings presented at medical conferences should be considered preliminary until published in their final form a peer-reviewed journal.
Reading the article, one would believe that the information was presented as a keynote or some other type of presentation. In fact, it seems to come from a “poster presentation” (416.301 Results from the Specifying and Treating Anxiety in Autism (STAAR)). The article is quite verbose, but the same information can’t be found on the author’s web site or at the conference site.
These native ads are annoying. They generate buzz and traffic to the big industrial autism groups, placing ideas out into the internet that lead conversations in directions that perhaps don’t serve the best interests of autistic people.
For example, given the percentage of autistic people who identify as transgender vs the percentage of the NT population who do, one would think that there would be some mention of how this was treated in the study. You would think that, and you would be wrong. “Studies” like this reinforce the stale idea of the autistic brain as a “disordered normal” brain. Binaries litter these studies, when nothing about the neurodivergent experience is binary.
The links between gender, autism, and anxiety explored ... or are they?
The links between gender, autism, and anxiety explored ... or are they?
The links between gender, autism, and anxiety explored ... or are they?
In a native ad placement from the Autism Phenome Project and Autism Speaks, via the HealthDay wire service, presented information about findings that were to be presented last week at the International Society for Autism Research meeting, in Stockholm. It’s important to note that findings presented at medical conferences should be considered preliminary until published in their final form a peer-reviewed journal.
Reading the article, one would believe that the information was presented as a keynote or some other type of presentation. In fact, it seems to come from a “poster presentation” (416.301 Results from the Specifying and Treating Anxiety in Autism (STAAR)). The article is quite verbose, but the same information can’t be found on the author’s web site or at the conference site.
These native ads are annoying. They generate buzz and traffic to the big industrial autism groups, placing ideas out into the internet that lead conversations in directions that perhaps don’t serve the best interests of autistic people.
For example, given the percentage of autistic people who identify as transgender vs the percentage of the NT population who do, one would think that there would be some mention of how this was treated in the study. You would think that, and you would be wrong. “Studies” like this reinforce the stale idea of the autistic brain as a “disordered normal” brain. Binaries litter these studies, when nothing about the neurodivergent experience is binary.