Autistic use of archives

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Hello, I am a masters student in archive administration and records management who has Aspergers Syndrome and ADHD.

I am thinking of writing a masters dissertation about the experience autistic people have of using archives. The archives I refer to are the ones that hold documents. For example these can be historical, community and government documents etc. An example of an archive would be the national archives at Kew in the United Kingdom.

I will probably need to do a survey so I am testing the water to see how many autistic people have used the archive and would be willing to be surveyed on their experience.

Please respond if you have used an archive and would potentially in future be okay with being surveyed on it.

I use online archives to read old books that have been scanned and uploaded, if that counts?

That is a fascinating field of study. I did not even know it existed!

When I was in college, before the internet was really available to everyone, I did when I was doing research papers like for music history class. But I have not since.
And welcome to WP J Peach!

I use online resources, as well.  Archive.org ("The Internet Archive") is one such resource.