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05 Jan 2025, 7:54 pm

How do you know if you can trust information about Autism online? for decades, people tell you not to trust everything you read about online, like you cannot trust Facebook.



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Yesterday, 5:25 am

Kitty4670 wrote:
How do you know if you can trust information about Autism online? for decades, people tell you not to trust everything you read about online, like you cannot trust Facebook.


Cross-reference with other sources and place the highest value on reputable and popular sources that receive sufficient scrutiny and review by the experts. Also, use your own discretion.

Our understanding of Autism spectrum continues to evolve. Ultimately it is just a label like anything else for a certain group of behaviors. Humans classify things in the world in order to make sense of them and organize their thoughts about things. We (autistic individuals) are simply another category of things in the world.

However, it is important to realize that whatever you read online is about a broad category, and there will be significant variation within that category due to the high complexity and variability of human beings. In other words, you are not defined by what you read online. Instead, you are yourself, separate and distinct from what you read.


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Yesterday, 7:47 am

Kitty4670 wrote:
How do you know if you can trust information about Autism online? for decades, people tell you not to trust everything you read about online, like you cannot trust Facebook.


It depends what your referring too?

From a pathology/ neuroscience research perspective there’s lots of info online.

The problem is the psychology field which is not a real science.

Science is the study of laws of how things work always so e=mc2 always 24/7 or this works in the heart always

Psychology is the study of behaviour and feelings which don’t always apply as people work in strange unpredictable ways so their are no laws

Many people online approaching autism from a psychological perspective have their own individual experience and perspective which may not apply to yourself.

Also some people online are neurodiversity advocates so will tend to talk about autism in a one sided positive way with very little medical perspective that may disenfranchise those who don’t like their autism. They can quickly be spotted by the type of language and sj terminology they use.


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