Centering the Inner Experience of Autism: Development of the Self-Assessment of Autistic Traits.

ABSTRACT: Current tools for identifying autism are critiqued for their lack of specificity and sensitivity, especially in autistic people who are older, have higher verbal ability or significant compensatory skills, and are not cisgender boys. This may reflect the following: the historical focus of autism research on White (cisgender) male, upper and middle class children; limited interest in the inner, lived experience of autism; and the predominance of a deficit-based model of autism. We report here on the first attempt of which we are aware to develop a clinical self-report measure of autistic traits as described by autistic people. We believe this is an advance in methodology because prior work in the development of autistic trait/diagnostic measures has prioritized the perspectives of no

SUBMITTER: Ratto AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10024271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature