Autistic stigma & minority stress: Dr Monique Botha with Chloe & David
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2021-04-11

Originally aired on Facebook: 10th April 2021, 20:00 London BST; 12 PST
*Autistic stigma & minority stress: Dr Monique Botha with Chloe & David*

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In this session Dr Monique Botha discusses minority stress, autism, mental health, autistic community connectedness, and stigma with Chloe and David. Monique will be doing a 30 minute presentation followed by 30 minute discussion.

Guest speaker details:
Monique is an autistic Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. Monique’s PhD in Psychology from the University of Surrey, focused on the role minority stress plays in the poor mental health experienced by autistic people, and further, how autistic community connectedness may “buffer” those effects.

Currently, at Stirling, Monique’s research focuses on several different areas including the ethics of autism research, how ideas around the philosophy of science have shaped the idea of autism, and how certain philosophies of science can provide routes to emancipation for autistic people from unethical, and violent research practice. Similarly, Monique is interested in the intersection of autism, sexuality, and gender, and lastly, the role that language used about autism, plays into stigma and marginalisation.

@DrMBotha on twitter
Moniquebotha.com (prof website)
https://www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../09687599.2020.1822782

**Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians**

Dr Chloe Farahar - Autistic academic, educator, and self-advocate
David Gray-Hammond - Autistic writer, Chief Operating Officer of NeuroClastic, and Autistic addiction and mental health advocate
https://www.facebook.com/emergentdivergence/

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