From Cure to Community: Transforming Notions of Autism

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Extending the Minority Stress Model to Understand Mental Health Problems Experienced by the Autistic Population (2018, methodology): “The biomedical model relies on identifying disease and creating meaningful interventions to cure the person who is suffering (Bagatell 2010; Rioux et al. 1994).”
What should autism research focus upon? Community views and priorities from the United Kingdom (2014, background): “…that such an approach can not only be damaging to an individual’s self-worth but is also challenging because it views the difficulties that autistics face as straightforwardly emanating from their own ‘condition’, rather from the changeable nature of the world around them (e.g. Bagatell, 2010).”
"Autism is me": an investigation of how autistic individuals make sense of autism and stigma (2020, background): “To date, little research has been conducted on the sense-making or narratives autistic individuals have in navigating these different perspectives of autism, nor how autistic individuals understand their own autism (Bagatell 2007, 2010).”
Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community (2016, background): “This disability-first language aligns with those autism community members who perceive their diagnosis (or their child’s diagnosis) to be an accepted aspect of their identity (Davidson and Henderson, 2010; Hurlburt and Chalmers, 2002) and marks their inclusion in a community (Bagatell, 2010).”