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18 Dec 2014, 11:43 am

John Elder Robinson writes an interesting article in MIT Technology Review today:

Fixing Autism Research We need to come to grips with what autism really is. - link

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The fact is, researchers have treated autism as a childhood disability, when in fact it’s a lifelong difference. If childhood is a quarter of the life span, then three-quarters of the autistic population are adults. Doesn’t it make sense that some of us would want to take a role in shaping the course of research that affects us?