What Happens When We Ask Autistic Persons What Is Wrong With Them?

Monday, October 6, 2008 - 21:28 in Psychology & Sociology

To date, few studies have focused on the viewpoints of autistic persons themselves despite an increasing number of published autobiographies. The results of this study suggest that what has been selected as major signs by psychiatric nosography is regarded as manifestations induced by perceptive peculiarities and strong emotional reactions by the autistic persons who expressed themselves.

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