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what kind of autism research would you do?

qwerty
over 4 years ago

Suppose you have the funding and technical skills to carry out autism research (e.g., questionnaires, qualitative interviews, MRI, EEG, behavioural experiments, virtual reality, etc). What kind of research question would you like to ask? What autism question do you think is still not well known, and what would be your solution to solving it, or extend current knowledge?

Parents
  • over 4 years ago

    There is brand new research showing that  AS/AS work well together, exchange information, as well as NT/NT, but ASC/NT do  not work as well. Basically a qualitative confirmation of double empathy problem and prediction that autistic people would interact well.

    http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/nd-iq/

    What would be interesting is to see exactly which signals are malfunctioning in AS/NT. Which signals they both miss and how to tune into them.

    It would also be interesting to know what triggers bullying, in terms of those signals, what signals do people pick up and react to when they start bullying autistic people. This not necessarily uniquely in relation to autistic people. Just human condition - spell it out.

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  • over 4 years ago

    There is brand new research showing that  AS/AS work well together, exchange information, as well as NT/NT, but ASC/NT do  not work as well. Basically a qualitative confirmation of double empathy problem and prediction that autistic people would interact well.

    http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/nd-iq/

    What would be interesting is to see exactly which signals are malfunctioning in AS/NT. Which signals they both miss and how to tune into them.

    It would also be interesting to know what triggers bullying, in terms of those signals, what signals do people pick up and react to when they start bullying autistic people. This not necessarily uniquely in relation to autistic people. Just human condition - spell it out.

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  • over 4 years ago in reply to Tinyexplorer

    Thanks for sharing this new research, Tinyexplorer! This does sound interesting. I have been wondering for quite a while whether AS/AS work well together or not. On the one hand, AS/AS might understand each other's difficulties better, or have shared common interests on some topic; on the other hand, since AS sometimes have trouble with cognitive empathy, or just have different traits (e.g., different sensory requirements), they might have more trouble in understanding each other. I started a thread a short while back on a hypothetical question "what if everyone in the world had Aspergers": https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/15041/what-if-everyone-in-the-world-had-aspergers There are some interesting comments by many people.

    Thanks for sharing the link about the DART project! It's really interesting that they've found that information sharing in AS/NT is lower than AS/AS and NT/NT. I really like the idea, and it's very new and interesting. 

    I also agree it would be very interesting to see exactly which signals are malfunctioning in AS/NT. Which signals they both miss and how to tune into them. There's some really interesting work in Princeton looking at how synchronised two brains are when e.g., they are watching the same movie, or communicating in a speaker-listener relationship: https://www.hassonlab.com/brain-to-brain-communication I think they've mostly just used NT/NT interactions, but I think it would be interesting to compare AS/AS, NT/NT, and AS/NT. Not really sure what will come out, but maybe it will shed some insight into how people exchange information and what signals are malfunctioning in AS/NT. 

    It's really nice to read your post and hearing your insights! You seem very knowledgable Slight smile