Fascinating study in the U.K. that showed that "individuals who regularly read right-leaning tabloids – which more frequently feature negative coverage of autism – tended to display more negative automatic responses towards autism."
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Newspapers tend to focus on autistic challenges, not autistic strengths. This kind of reporting—especially in some tabloids and right-leaning newspapers—can reinforce negative stereotypes, making it harder to build a more inclusive society for Autistic people:
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How are news media narratives related to public attitudes towards autism?
Our new paper @journalautism.bsky.social explores this question using data on newspaper reading preferences.
🎥Video overview available below ⬇️
#Autism #MediaRepresentation #Newspapers #PublicAttitudes #AutismResearch
New paper (w/ accompanying video) below by @themiskaraminis.bsky.social shows trust in right-wing newspapers relates to harsher attitudes toward autistic ppl despite what ppl admit.
Ties in w/ @thinkingautism.com’s piece connecting grievance parents to MAGA:
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I’m lucky to have a garden office/shed/cave. When I work from there, Exponential the Cat often knocks on the door, then dashes to the house to wait for me to follow and let her in. Isn't that second-order Theory of Mind? #ToM #cat
Graphic announcing a new publication titled The A3ReAcH Framework. The top of the image features large bold text reading “NEW PAPER” with a subtitle above it: “The A3ReAcH Framework”. Below is a cropped screenshot of the journal article, showing the title: “The A3ReAcH (Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD research accessibility in healthcare) framework: Principles for inclusive healthcare research with autistic, ADHD and AuDHD individuals in radiography and medical radiation technology”, authored by Ben Potts, Emily Skelton, Georgia Pavlopoulou, Themis Karaminis, and Christina Malamateniou, and published in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences (2025).
🚨 New publication!
The first paper from my #PhD is now out!
The A3ReAcH Framework is 12 principles for inclusive, accessible research for autistic, ADHD & AuDHD people.
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Hello, everyone. I'm seeking views from fellow #Autistic, #ADHD, and #AuDHD people. My goal is to ensure my PhD project is driven by community needs and priorities right from the start. If you can spare an hour to help, contact me here or via email (address is in the image). Thanks! #AutRes
We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
📰 #Newspapers often depict #autism in negative and stereotypical ways —but how does this influence public perceptions?
Our new preprint explores this issue: 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os...
#AutismResearch #MediaRepresentation
Really interesting paper on gender disparities in autism coverage in British newspapers.
Grim finding: a significant subset of the "autistic girls" articles were about gender transition and misgendered those involved. Which also means there's *even less* coverage of autistic girls than it appears.
Table 1 from the linked article, showing how many times e.g. 'autistic grandmother' had been mentioned in UK press. None.
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New research showing how far we have to go, in the media. They looked at UK newspapers to see how often they mention e.g. autistic girl, boy, mum, dad etc. No. of times the Press mentioned autistic grandmothers?
None.
#AutisticElders
@cosmichael.bsky.social
Articles on autism are usually negative, and specifically, are sh***y in depictions of autistic people.
So, "Autistic people should be involved in guiding newspapers to more inclusive coverage, & it is crucial that newspapers respect the community's language preferences."
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The portrayal of #autism in the #British newspapers journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interesting paper (open access) looking in detail at autistic representation - including the differences between how boys and girls (or mothers/fathers) are portrayed (eg girls more likely to be shown as part of a group, not an individual, and mainly in discussing gender difference).
Thank you very much, @georgejulian.bsky.social. There are additional visuals in the paper (open access) that focus on changes over time, contrasts between tabloids and broadsheets, as well as left- and right-leaning publications.
Thank you @drjobillington.bsky.social and many thanks for these great prompts!
Co-authored with Costas Gabrielatos
Costas Gabrielatos, Ursula Maden-Weinberger & Geoff Beattie. 🧵11/11
piecharts and butterfly histograms showing results from the corpus analysis study
Results are also available with visualisations. 🧵10/11
The full paper including many actual quotes (some may be triggering), discusses changes over time and differences between #tabloids & #broadsheets. 🧵9/11
Such biased reporting hinders the public understanding and acceptance of the diverse experiences within the autistic community... 🧵8/11
[4] Mothers associated with autism can be autistic women themselves; however, autistic dads are rarely discussed. 🧵7/11
[3] Both mothers and fathers of autistic children are assigned responsibility for their child's autism. But mothers are blamed for many more reasons than fathers, including genes, labour, nutrition, alcohol and drugs, lifestyle choices. 🧵6/11
[2] There are girl-specific topics in newspapers, including masking and diagnostic difficulties and gender transitioning, discussed only for those AFAB. Boys have a clear presence, they have passionate interests or face/create challenges. 🧵5/11
For example:
[1] Autistic girls are typically portrayed as a group and their autism is contrasted to the autism of boys. Boys are discussed far more frequently and are presented as individuals. 🧵4/11
We argue that #intersectional representations reflect the #interplay between [A] historical #biases in autism #research (extreme male brain, female autism phenotype) and [B] deep-routed #gender #stereotypes (e.g., girl=quiet, boy=noisy, mother=nurturing, father=powerful). 🧵3/11
Here, we contrast #newspaper #representations of autism across gender and family role #intersections.
How do autism portrayals differ for autistic #girls vs. #boys and #mothers vs #fathers of autistic children? 🧵2/11
My very first post here :)
NEW follow-up paper from our
@britishacademy.bsky.social
Leverhulme project on Attitudes toward Autism in British Newspapers now #openaccess in
@journalautism.bsky.social !
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Summary below: 🧵1/11
