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Beyond the Binary: A Neuroscientific and Lived-Experience Critique of Deficit-Centric Frameworks in Autism Diagnosis and Gender Research

2026-03-18

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<p>Two recent contributions to public discourse on autism—Professor Uta Frith’s widely circulated 2026 interview arguing that the diagnostic spectrum has become untenable, and Dr. Sue Franklin’s response asserting the primacy of a gendered corrective lens—each illuminate important fault lines in contemporary autism science while simultaneously reproducing epistemological constraints that have long limited the fiel...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/cfz75_v1

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