“In other words, they found that an important contributor to social and communication problems stemmed not from the autistic individuals, but rather from the neurotypical reactions, based on (by definition) exclusionary social attitudes and first impressions, which led to a decreased drive to interact with autistic individuals. That is to say, neurotypicals tend to decide, within moments of meeting autistic people, that autistic people are less worth socialising with than neurotypicals.”
Wow! Shocker! Yet again, Shocking Research Findings that they could have had literally DECADES ago if they had bothered listening to Actual Autistics™ at any point in their theorizing.
I read this to my Dad (also autistic) and we both looked into the camera like we were on the Office …