Tag: autism and misdiagnosis

How and Why Neurotypicals Misunderstand and Mistreat Autistic People

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Commonly used autism interventions, such as ABA, have been found to be both ineffective and abusive, inflicting trauma on those subjected to them.

ā€œAutism’s Lost Generationā€

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ā€œSome autistic adults have spent much of their lives with the wrong diagnosis, consigned to psychiatric institutions or drugged for disorders they never had,ā€ Jessica Wright writes in The Atlantic.