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Autism: Common, heritable, but not harmful
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We assert that one of the examples used by Keller & Miller (K&M), namely, autism, is indeed common, and heritable, but we question whether it is harmful. We provide a brief review of cognitive science literature in which autistics perform superiorly to non-autistics in perceptual, reasoning, and comprehension tasks; however, these superiorities are often occluded and are instead described as dysfunctions.
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In a number of cases, conventional autism research describes ways in which autistic people outperform nonautistic people in scientific tasks yet interprets those achievements as somehow revealing a problem.
“In a number of cases, conventional autism research describes ways in which autistic people outperform nonautistic people in scientific tasks yet interpret those achievements as somehow revealing a problem.”
From Annual Research Review: Shifting from ‘normal science’ to neurodiversity in autism science (2022) · cites this paper as Gernsbacher, Dawson, & Mottron, 2006
Data that in fact reveal strengths in autistic people are paradoxically interpreted in a negative way, as a consequence of a 'deficit' or 'impairment'.
“That is, data that in fact reveal strengths in autistic people are paradoxically – and bizarrely – interpreted in a negative way, as a consequence of a ‘deficit’ or ‘impairment’ (Dawson & Mottron, 2011; Dinishak, 2016; Gernsbacher, Dawson, & Mottron, 2006; Robertson, 2010).”
From Annual Research Review: Shifting from ‘normal science’ to neurodiversity in autism science (2022) · cites this paper as Gernsbacher, Dawson, & Mottron, 2006
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Annual Research Review: Shifting from ‘normal science’ to neurodiversity in autism science
Pellicano, E., & den Houting, J. (2022) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/jcpp.13534 · Cited by 744
“‘deficits’ which could equally be seen as ‘strengths’ (Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & Jackson-Perry, 2020; Dawson, Soulieres, Gernsbacher, & Mottron, 2007; Gernsbacher et al., 2006; Mottron, 2011; Robertson, 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gernsbacher, M. A., Dawson, M., & Mottron, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Gernsbacher, Morton Ann
- Dawson, Michelle
- Mottron, Laurent
- Venue
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2006-08
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 413-414
- ISSN
- 0140-525X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1825
- PMC
- PMC4263218
- OpenAlex
- W2071428587
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (F33DC005365)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, heritability, prevalence, cognitive ability, perceptual skills, reasoning, comprehension, dysfunction, neurodiversity
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