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

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There is an incredibly large industry that surrounds Autism. There’s huge money to be made from it. This is the entirety of the human brain. So now do you see why we say we’re Autistic from our heads to our toes? Our whole neurology, all our cognitive processes, our senses, the way messages are deciphered and sent from every part of our body to the cerebellum, the control centre, are all shaped and formed by Autism. If you think difference, you think positively; you focus on what they can do. What it doesn’t mean is that the person does not need support, only that you are making their strengths a priority. Among diagnosed children though, a really common thing to hear from parents is that: “I don’t want my child defined by their Autism.”

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Nonsense responses (e.g. “playing around in circles”) and repeated responses were not coded. Following consultation with an autistic adult about how best to capture the responses of the TST, the percentage of positive and negative statements produced in each TST were also calculated. An additional coding scheme was therefore developed by the researchers to identify positive (e.g. ‘I am good at…’), negative (e.g. ‘I am not good at…’, ‘I am a failure’) and neutral statements (e.g. statements which have neither positive or negative connotations, or the connotation is unclear, such as ‘I am autistic’, ‘I am a dancer’). All statements were coded by two independent raters who met and agreed all coding. Inter-rater correlations were calculated for all of the component TST scores, with the resulting coefficients ranging from 0.71 to .93, with scores for identity strength, complexity and quality similar to those reported by Rhee et al. ( 1995; 0.76 to 1.00).The charity ran a home in which residents were forced to eat chillies, repeatedly thrown into a swimming pool and forced to crawl around on all fours, a review has found.

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If you think deficit, you think negatively; you focus on the things the person can’t do, you focus on how to fix what is supposedly broken. Person B shuts down or ignores emotive situations = Person B has an empathy deficit which must be fixed.

When Autistic people are dying because there is no money and so few people care to take the time to understand.