Bridge-building between communities: Imagining the future of biomedical autism research.

Heraty, Síofra; Lautarescu, Alexandra; Belton, David; Boyle, Alison; Cirrincione, Pietro; Doherty, Mary; Douglas, Sarah; Plas, Jan Roderik Derk et al. · Cell · 2023

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Abstract

A paradigm shift in research culture is required to ease perceived tensions between autistic people and the biomedical research community. As a group of autistic and non-autistic scientists and stakeholders, we contend that through participatory research, we can reject a deficit-based conceptualization of autism while building a shared vision for a neurodiversity-affirmative biomedical research paradigm.

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