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Postdoctoral Researcher | Autism Research | Telethon Kids Institute | she/her
Jun 20, 2019 23 tweets 6 min read
Our new paper examining the term ‘high functioning autism’ has just been published in @journalautism

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FS5MZ3G…

Here’s some background into the rationale for conducting this study and what we found @telethonkids [THREAD] The term 'high functioning autism', sometimes linked to Asperger’s Disorder, was coined ~1980s by researchers to subgroup individuals with autism diagnoses without intellectual disability or cognitive impairment (IQs >70) for research purposes.