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tetris
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10 Feb 2016, 12:04 pm

Meant to do this yesterday but never got round to it.
Thanks to everyone who answered.
Here are the results to the survey.
I’m more than happy if anyone wants to use these results and graphs as long as you credit this post - http://autismbyautistics.tumblr.com/post/139057744709/autistic-or-person-with-autism-survey-results
It’d great if people could reblog this or post it elsewhere too if you want


321 people answered in total.
Question 1: 318 people answered, 3 people skipped.
Question 2: 320 people answered, 1 person skipped.
Question 3: 320 people answered, 1 person skipped.
Question 4: 320 people answered, 1 person skipped.

Question 1:
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292 autistic people voted for autistic – 91.82%
26 autistic people voted for person with autism – 8.18%
Question 2:
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101 autistic people did mind if people used person with autism – 31.56%.
219 autistic people didn’t mind if people used person with autism – 68.44%
Question 3:

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7 autistic people liked it if people insist on person with autism – 2.19%
251 autistic people did not like it if people insisted on person with autism – 78.44%
62 autistic people didn’t care if people insisted on person with autism – 19.38%
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52 autistic people agreed with functioning labels – 16.25%
212 autistic people did not agree with functioning labels – 66.25%
56 autistic people didn’t care about functioning labels – 17.50%



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10 Feb 2016, 12:10 pm

Wow. I agree with the statistics and appreciate the work to create the statistical charts!


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10 Feb 2016, 12:12 pm

Thanks for posting the results, was actually thinking about the survey a few days ago.

Today I'm an Autistic space cadet with Autism, I'll tell you my pronouns tomorrow.



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10 Feb 2016, 12:23 pm

AspieUtah wrote:
Wow. I agree with the statistics and appreciate the work to create the statistical charts!


Thanks but survey monkey does it for you, all I had to do was print screen them and then crop the picture.



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10 Feb 2016, 5:23 pm

I just wrote a blog post about your study, comparing it to a similar study I managed to find:

http://abnormaldiversity.blogspot.ca/2016/02/autistic-or-person-with-autism.html



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16 Feb 2016, 6:30 pm

Bump, just in case there are people who wanted to see the results but missed it.