Category: Deficit Model of Autism
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The medical (deficit) versus social models of autism
Season two, episode two is here! Also, I’m requesting that listeners interested in sharing their autism diagnosis story reach out to me.
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Why do some autistic people seem self-absorbed?
A common and sometimes unspoken myth about autistic individuals is that they are self-absorbed. Here, we talk about three possible origins of this myth.
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The deficit model of autism
Historically, our understanding of autism has been based on a deficit model. See why this is a problem.
The Other Autism 