Don Triplett, the first person diagnosed with autism, dead at 89 (www.wlbt.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/190173...
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/190173...
We now have a chat room for the smallest of talks! Just kidding. Infodumping is encouraged....
Sorry for the external link, but Lemmy wouldn’t allow me to post the whole text. As mentioned at the start, feel free to contribute or debate as you see fit, I might update this post later on.
As there is some overlap with autism, I figured some of you might be interested in joining this community!...
edit: photo link
I was almost ready to create an ASD community in my instance when I notice this one exists. Thought I'd link back to the ADHD community I'm running as a lot of us (including myself) have both
This is somehow the second part of my previous post: I am not always like this....
Abstract: We hypothesized that autistic adults may be erroneously judged as deceptive or lacking credibility due to demonstrating unexpected and atypical behaviors. Thirty autistic and 29 neurotypical individuals participated in video-recorded interviews, and we measured their demonstration of gaze aversion, repetitive body...
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This read was enlightening and insightful after I learned I was autistic as an adult. It helped me focus on finding a partner that fits my brain rather than trying to make it work with a poor fit.
I recommend looking through their assessments. If you take any, the results can be quite insightful.