One potential factor contributing to this is identity development, although this hypothesis has been little explored. Rebecca has been a speaker at conferences across the UK, developed a range of parent programmes, and provides training and coaching for settings. If identity development is more difficult for autistic individuals, then it is important to examine how identity development may relate to mental health, given the previously identified links between difficulties with identity development and mental health (e. Well, as a model we have various levels of vaguely acceptable diversity in our human herd, so how is it there?

Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is

Suffering doesn’t stem from Autism, it stems from complex co-occurring conditions, needs not being met sufficiently and the extreme anxiety generated by both.

Language derived from national charities that don’t help you, but convince you they’re helping somebody and then pass you onto volunteer run parent groups. It’s evidenced by the treatment of people who have the audacity to look differently, speak differently or act differently.

‘Who Am I?’: An Exploratory Study of the Relationships

As with anything there are negative aspects to Autism, for an Autistic person, but that does not mean that Autism has to be negative.Despite the many disagreements that ravage our community, often imposed on us by belief in the pathology paradigm, the internal experience is shared and relatable, the emotional impact is shared and relatable, the cognition and the neurology is shared and relatable. The parallels between what is happening now to Autistic people and other Neurodivergencies, with other civil rights movements are enormous, in some cases it’s literally a matter of transferring one label for another. Yet for many Autistic people, the removal of the Mask is something that generates a fear response – what if we take off the Mask and there’s nothing and nobody underneath?