A rose by any other name would smell of stigma: Psychological importance of being an Autistic person
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2021-06-22

A rose by any other name would smell…of stigma (or, the psychologically important difference between being a “person with autism” or an Autistic person)

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Question: Is identifying with social groups beneficial to people’s health and wellbeing?  Whilst marking undergrad essays on this question back in 2020 - my mind began to wander, as it is prone to do, to Autistic things.  Although my PhD was in the field of social psychology – where I attempted to reduce mental health stigma with the neurodiversity narrative – I had become so engrossed in my little sliver of the field I forgot about other social psychological theories and approaches.  I researched the references my students were citing and made a short Twitter thread of my thoughts regarding the psychologically important difference between being a “person with autism” and an Autistic person. The difference between belonging to a stigmatised group, and the social cure properties of strongly identifying with an Autistic identity... 

Dr Chloe Farahar | Aucademy | So, You're Autistic?

This video accompanies an invited article for University College London: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/stigma-research/2021/06/25/a-rose-by-any-other-name-would-smellof-stigma-or-the-psychologically-important-difference-between-being-a-person-with-autism-or-an-autistic-person-by-dr-chloe-farahar/