Yeah, I've been thinking that, too.

I think there are a lot of geneticists/ neurologists/ gastroenterologists who just consider how they could get any research funded, and then turn to autism, look up the criteria in the DSM and copy-paste from the introductions of other articles from their field.

It's uninformed and uninspired, and that way they only ever come up with projects to "causes" and "cures".

But I think they could be able to do meaningful research in their fields if they started to listen to the experiences of autistic people.

I think there is a lack of training in story telling or communication within the broader research community people are focused on methods rather than connection to not be viewed as emotional ad hominem logical fallacy and they don't know how to link to audiences emotionally without compromising data

Autistic people who grew up in religious institutions backgrounds how that impacted their lens on autism

Q5: Autism hormonal imbalances ik there's research on autism and pcos but possibly broader hormonal imbalances like pmdd which can actually create intense suicidality, people with personality disorders like, eupd etc and also being autistic less likely to get diagnosed with autism due to convergenc

I'm concerned people are just doing research to do research I went to alot of the panels and it just seemed like they were just researching to research things that have no benefit to autistic people and their lives

Antifragility and how this applies to autistic people ie post traumatic growth

The internal observer in autistic women similar to Margaret atwood and her comments on women being their own voyeur ie viewing themselves in regard to the male lens but how autistic women do this with everyone