'According to some autism researchers, the field still too often defaults to terms with negative connotations. In a recent survey of 195 autism researchers, 60% of responses included views about autistic people the study authors deemed dehumanising, objectifying, or stigmatising. Some responses described autistic people as “shut down from the outside world” or “completely inexpressive and apparently without emotions,” according to the Frontiers in Psychology study. “What is worse than I thought," says psychologist Monique Botha, "was how blatant a lot of the content was; which shows that, for a large proportion of participants, they did not consider the things they were saying to be problematic at all."'
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