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#ActuallyAutistic Sense-Making on Twitter

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Autistic individuals engage in sense-making as they seek to better understand themselves and relate to others within a society formed by neuro-typical social norms. Our research examines the ways in which autistic individuals engage in sense-making activities about autism on Twitter. We collected autism-oriented Twitter conversations and Twitter user profiles data of people participating in those conversation. Our research contributes empirical evidence demonstrating that that autistic sense-making on Twitter is constituted by (1) engaging in dynamic discussions of life experiences, (2) countering stigma with actions of advocacy, and (3) enacting neuro-atypical social norms.

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ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
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  1. Social computing
  2. advocacy
  3. autism
  4. neurodiversity
  5. social norms

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