Welcome to a series of #AutRes posts highlighting key findings of my Master’s research1 where I interviewed nonbinary autistic people about what future research about them should look like.

3. Research should look at ways forward.

  • Participants felt that research should focus on improving lives of autistic nonbinary people
  • They felt research that reconfirms the negative experiences of nonbinary autistic people was less helpful

Quotes from Charlotte Brooks' research question

Auto-generated description: Quotes from Charlotte Brooks' research participants discuss the empowerment of autistic individuals in research and the hope for reduced negative life events through increased understanding. *Quotes are transcribed verbatim from participants in Charlotte Brooks' research1

  1. Brooks, C. (2022) Exploring views on future directions of research involving nonbinary autistic people through lived experience. Master’s Dissertation. University of Birmingham. Available at: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/13703/ (Accessed: 17 July 2024). ↩︎

Welcome to a series of #AutRes posts highlighting key findings of my Master’s research1 where I interviewed nonbinary autistic people about what future research about them should look like.

2. Research should be community led.

  • Participants were engaged with research and aware of participatory research approaches
  • They expressed that autistic gender diverse people should be involved in decisions and fairly compensated for their expertise at all stages of research process

Auto-generated description: Quotes from Charlotte Brooks' research participants emphasize meeting people where they are, listening, sharing knowledge, and grounding research in lived experience. *Quotes are transcribed verbatim from participants in Charlotte Brooks' research1

  1. Brooks, C. (2022) Exploring views on future directions of research involving nonbinary autistic people through lived experience. Master’s Dissertation. University of Birmingham. Available at: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/13703/ (Accessed: 17 July 2024). ↩︎

Welcome to a series of #AutRes posts highlighting key findings of my Master’s research1 where I interviewed nonbinary autistic people about what future research about them should look like.

1. Research should include a diverse range of people and experiences.

  • My participants felt autism research did not represent the diversity of the autistic community or fully consider how identities may intersect
  • They noted how the voices of gender diverse people, people of colour, and non-speaking autistic people are missing from research

Auto-generated description: Quotes from Charlotte Brooks' research participants question the visibility of nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, and gendervague individuals, and states that research often focuses on white people. *Quotes are transcribed verbatim from participants in Charlotte Brooks' research*1

  1. Brooks, C. (2022) Exploring views on future directions of research involving nonbinary autistic people through lived experience. Master’s Dissertation. University of Birmingham. Available at: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/13703/ (Accessed: 17 July 2024). ↩︎