Amy Pearson

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University of Sunderland

United Kingdom

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Dr. Amy Pearson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. Her research primarily focuses on autism, exploring areas such as the social and emotional impacts of puberty on autistic individuals, experiences of autistic burnout in motherhood, and the navigation of autism diagnoses in adulthood. She has published extensively on the intersection of autism and gender diversity, as well as the experiences related to intimate violence and recovery in autistic adults.

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Understanding the Relationship between Contextual Identity and Monotropism in Autistic Adults’

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University of Stirling

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The social model in autism research

Exploring the Social and Emotional Impact of Puberty and Adolescence on Autistic People Assigned Female at Birth

Diagnosis as a new beginning not an end: A participatory photovoice study on navigating an autism diagnosis in adulthood

“Comforting, Reassuring, and…Hot”: A Qualitative Exploration of Engaging in Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism and (Sado)masochism and Kink from the Perspective of Autistic Adults

“It Has Shown Me How Much I Am Capable Of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood

“It’s Not a Physical Prison but You Can’t Get Out.” How Autistic Adults Make Sense of the Experience of Intimate Violence and Abuse

“It’s a Long Process, and It’s a Long Journey”: Autistic Adult’s Experiences of Support and Recovery after Experiencing Intimate Violence and Abuse

“You Are the Expert of Your Own Experience”: A Thematic Analysis of Experiences of Autism and Gender Diversity in Adulthood

Reflective Analysis on Neurodiversity and Student Wellbeing

Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research

From Puzzle to Progress: How Engaging With Neurodiversity Can Improve Cognitive Science

‘I felt like I deserved it because I was autistic’: Understanding the impact of interpersonal victimisation in the lives of autistic people

Anti-ableist language is fully compatible with high-quality autism research: Response to Singer et al. (2023)

Being, Knowing, and Doing: Importing Theoretical Toolboxes for Autism Studies

What can neurodiversity tell us about inner speech, and vice versa? A theoretical perspective

‘I can actually do it without any help or someone watching over me all the time and giving me constant instruction’: Autistic adolescent boys' perspectives on engagement in online video gaming

Opening up autism research: Bringing open research methods to our field

“This Was Just How This Friendship Worked”: Experiences of Interpersonal Victimization Among Autistic Adults

“Masking Is Life”: Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults

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Monique Botha

Sophie Hodgetts

Laurence Cobbaert

Kathryn Bonnen

Steven Kapp

Talia Morstead

Konrad Kording

Mary Doherty

Christopher Dabbs

Judith Good

Rachael Davis

Chris Edwards

Kristen Bottema-Beutel

Rebecca Poulsen

Zachary J. Williams

Louise Creechan

Noah J. Sasson

Mahmoud M. Elsherif

Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist

Martine van Driel

Felicity Sedgewick

Kristien Hens

Rebecca Flower

Flavio Azevedo

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