tw: child abuse, spiders

#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
#Yale don't get to bury this. They don't get to claim that they care about autistic people. They don't get to claim that they see us as people. They don't get to gaslight autistic people into thinking we're just overreacting or misinterpreting their study #AttendMoreFearLess
Autistic toddlers, autistic kids, autistic adults - we all deserve better than this from the people who claim to care about us #AttendMoreFearLess
Ann has written up their reading of the study here:
And her evisceration of Yale's bullshit defence here:

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