Anna Nicholson<p>Far too often when I read autism research, I find myself dismayed by the pathologising neurotypical gaze</p><p>That is certainly true for this 2017 paper: ‘Look me in the eyes: constraining gaze in the eye-region provokes abnormally high subcortical activation in autism’, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03378-5Picpic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-033</span><span class="invisible">78-5Picpic</span></a></p><p>A thread …</p><p>[edit: tagging <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> for those who don’t yet follow hashtags]<br><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableism</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/MedicalModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicalModel</span></a></p>