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“A broad spectrum of traits characterized by challenges starting from early childhood with social-emotional skills, non-verbal communication behaviors, relationships, restricted repeitive behaviors, inflexible thinking patterns, hyperfocus that cannot be otherwise expalined by an intellectual disability or global developmental disability.”
— American Psychological Association (2022)
What is autism?
“The conscious or unconscious suppression of natural responses and adapation of alternative Across a range of domains includin gsocial interaction, sensory experience, cognition, movement, and behavior” (Pearson & Rose, 2021).
the desire to manage expectations, avoid the fear of being negatively evaluated, and to be accepted by others (Gino et al., 2020).
What is Autistic masking?
Podcast: Season 1: Autism: Episode 2
“Born with brain differences that develop into a broad spectrum of traits that present a unique way of seeing and experiencing the world and those in it, regardless of culture, race, gender, stereotype, or societal expectations.”
— Ali, the Autistic therapist (2026)
What does it mean to be Autistic?
Podcast: Season 1: Autism: Episode 1
“Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination toward individuals with disability, often with a patronizin desire to “cure” their disability and make them “'normal” (Dunn, 2021)
Anxiety/ awkwardness around those who are disabled
Social & cultural conditioning for what disability means and can achieve or not achieve
Marginalization
Fear of obtaining the same disability
Gender & personality biases or discrimination
Beliefs that individuals with disabilities are less than or unequal to others
inaccurate religious or social belief systems
What is abelism?
Podcast: Season 1: Episode 2