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#Yale just did a study, passed by their ethics committee, which literally measured 'distress' in autistic children by frightening them with Halloween masks, large mechanical spiders, and strangers encroaching in their personal space #AttendLessFearMore
#Yale just did a study, passed by their ethics committee, which literally measured 'distress' in autistic children by frightening them with Halloween masks, large mechanical spiders, and strangers encroaching in their personal space #AttendLessFearMore
Not only this, but they then tried to defend it when the autistic community expressed outrage whilst blocking the Twitter user who leaked the paper, followed by them removing the paper from the link so that people can no longer see for themselves what they did #AttendLessFearMore
A single traumatic moment in childhood can have a lasting effect and is often the basis of phobias. This is especially true for autistic people. The researchers who claimed to be concerned about anxiety in autistic people have potentially created that anxiety #AttendMoreFearLess
