There is little comprehensive research into autistic adulthood, and even less into the
services and supports that are most likely to foster flourishing adult autistic lives. This limited …

Internet-based online surveys are a crucial tool for researchers to learn about the
understudied and often overlooked population of autistic adults. The recruitment and …

War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural
phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western …

In this article, we report on an oral history study documenting the lives of autistic adults in
Australia. This qualitative study, co-produced with autistic researchers, offers insight into the …

Introduction: Autistic advocates and their supporters have long argued that conventional
research practices provide too few opportunities for genuine engagement with autistic …

The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the
media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. Jordynn Jack …

In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher
Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a …

This analysis argues that social deficit theories exacerbate the worst excesses of the
medical model, a framework that attributes autism (in this example) as the cause of a …

Abstract Building on Michael Bury's “biographical disruption” and Kathy Charmaz's “loss of
self,” which describe the deteriorative impacts of chronic illness on perceptions of selfhood, I …

The public develops interpretations of physical and mental disabilities through a variety of
resources, most notably representations presented by the news media. While disability …