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14-year-old autistic adolescent in sensory withdrawal (or shutdown). Autistic individuals are often victims of violence, including bullying, abuse, sexual assault and criminal acts. [ 1] Violence can be physical or verbal, [ 2] as illustrated by the frequent use of the word "autistic" as an insult. [ 3][ 4] Autistic people, like many people ...
Stigmatization of autism can also be perpetuated by advertising from autism conversion organizations, such as Autism Speaks' advertising wherein a mother describes having considered murder-suicide in front of her autistic daughter or the NYU Child Study Center's advertisements where autism is personified as a kidnapper holding children for ransom.
Alternative medicine. Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) [ 3][ 4][ a] is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and ...
The Sally–Anne test is a psychological test originally conceived by Daniel Dennett, used in developmental psychology to measure a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others. [ 1] Based on the earlier ground-breaking study by Wimmer and Perner (1983), [ 2] the Sally–Anne test was so named by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
Disability hate crime is a form of hate crime involving the use of violence against people with disabilities. This is not only violence in a physical sense, but also includes other hostile acts, such as the repeated blocking of disabled access [ 1] and verbal abuse. [ 1] These hate crimes are associated with prejudice against a disability, or a ...
Autism Speaks – the world's largest autism advocacy organization that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. Autistic Self Advocacy Network – a nonprofit advocacy organization run by and for individuals on the autism spectrum. ASAN holds that the goal of autism ...
t. e. Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism[ 1] come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects the definition of personhood. [ 2] The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps; the autism rights movement and the pathology paradigm.
Murder of Jodi Parrack. Jodi Christine Parrack (September 2, 1996 – November 8, 2007) was an 11-year-old girl from Constantine, Michigan who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle on a local street, then sexually assaulted and murdered. Her case drew considerable media attention not only due to the heinous nature of the crime but also due to ...