Beyond tokenism in autism research.

In recent years there has been an exponential rise in the amount of autism research undertaken, yet much of the narrative has been at odds with voices from the autistic community following the "neurodiversity paradigm". The neurodiversity movement posits that autism research, dominated by a deficit model, has for decades failed to improve lives. In the same journal issue, the autistic scholar Bolton described the developing disdain amongst some neurodiversity advocates towards scientific knowledge in favour of lived experience, and an increasing hostility towards non-autistic researchers. [Extracted from the article]