Discrimination = Death… and Pain, Suffering and Poorer Quality of Life for Autistic Adults with Co-Occurring Conditions

It does not save anyone money to burn research already published. It wastes money. And worse- it wastes literal lives. On that note…

I am PROUD to report that that the Gov’t took down the archived recording of our invited Presentation hosted by the Autism Intervention Research Network-Physical Health at UCLA on our research that revealed discrimination in NIH funding patterns. This research shows that the NIH had never funded a single study on the treatment of co-occurring physical health conditions in autistic adults. These are health conditions that make autistic people sicker and more likely to die earlier than non-autistic people. In this case, Discrimination = Death.

My talk was removed along with a select group of others that referred to “discrimination,” “minority,” “race,” “gender,” or “LGBTQ.” I am PROUD to be on the right side of history on this. This is the 2nd time the Gov’t took down this talk- both times for ridiculous reasons. This is research that provides DATA on discriminatory funding patterns. It is already published. Taking down the talk COSTS money- it doesn’t save it.

#autistic #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neuromarginalization

This link goes to our paper where you can read it for free 🙂 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36635433/

You can also find it here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-022-05856-w

If you want to see where the talk was taken down- “Due to recent Presidential Executive Orders, certain content has been removed under the direction of our federal partners. If there is a particular activity that you are seeking, please email us at airp@mednet.ucla.edu.”: https://airpnetwork.ucla.edu/