Symptoms
Gastral issues
What is physical?
What people thought caused autism until 2004
What is a vaccine?
Autism is defined by white boys who are visibly autistic
What is the misconception around anyone can have autism?
The current known causes
What are genetics?
The definition of masking
What is hiding autistic features to appear more "normal?"
Difficulty thinking of a response to a friend
What is interpersonal?
The year when the first diagnosed autistic died
What is 2023?
Autism can be cured
What is the misconception around autism being a lifelong disorder?
Most popular types of "treatment" for autistics
What is behaviour therapy?
The most common disorder that is comorbid with autism
What is ADHD?
Lights are distractingly bright
What is sensory?
When the term Aspergers was popularised (not created)
What was WWII?
Everyone these days are autistic, it's so easy to get a diagnosis
What is the misconception around autism having a long and detailed diagnosis process?
What the current percentage of autistic children being born can be compared to
What is percentage of blonde people?
What ABA therapies do to correct child behaviour
What is spraying water at their face/vinegar on their tongue/ignoring their asks for attention/making them stand up and sit down repeatedly?
Isolation from feeling like you don't fit in
What is mental?
What autism was initially thought to be/what disorder is was recognised as until the DSM-III
What is schizophrenia?
Autism is a spectrum defined by high and low functioning
What is the misconception around autism being a blob of symptoms and severity?
Factors being researched for another possible cause/how autistic children develop
What are external and neurological?
The organisation that is pushing for a "cure" for autism
What is Autism Speaks?
Difficulty maintaining eye contact
What is physical?
Percentage of autistic kids as of 2023
What is 1/36?
Aspergers is a term for higher-functioning autistics
What is the misconception around nazis choosing which autistics were allowed to live?
A physical symptom that is being given more research
What is gut health?
A common disorder that is comorbid with autism that does NOT have the highest percent of comorbidity that were listed on the slide
What is anxiety/depression/bipolar/OCD/ODD/seizures/Tourette's/learning disablities?