Researchers with autism or AS (not just research on autism)

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Maybe this topic has been done to death already but I had a interesting thought this morning. How many of us have done research on a topic. I define research as an attempt to do original work on a topic with the sincere hope of expanding the understanding that the human race have of a topic.

For example reading a book to educate yourself is not research while attempting to document a new butterfly in place X is research.

If you have worked on more than one area then please select the area which you have made the bigger impact in.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Yep. Done that. Toddled off to a university thinking Goodwill Hunting (minus the very big brain) . Had a very enthusiastic discussion with a Prof of something or other, never heard anything back. Probably nicked my ideas, brain picked the obvious innocent eyed Aspie, and thought doesn't matter , we can screw him over quietly.

Hope they did some good. Not responsible for anything if they didn't. Don't care really.

I have assisted autism researchers, and am also part of a group that puts autistic people together with researchers, and has the research focused on areas of interest to autistic people. Right now I am working with others on a study of healthcare experiences of autistic people, disabled nonautistic people, and nondisabled nonautistic people.

I have published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts.

I interned at a zoo and did research on the behavioral patterns of Golden Lion Tamarins. I was responsible for observation and data collection.

my research is in social science but would like to look into autism once i finished with the current degree.

I think the happiest times of my life were when I was doing research projects in grad school. I LOVED that. I would have liked to have made a career of it - and was told I'd do well - but the money ran out. Oh, well.

Minor published author with another publication coming out this year. My field is not autism-related, it relates to my employment in a government agency. I do number crunching and not only analyse various types of public data, but also have developed one or two new methods for calculating particular indexes in social and economic statistics (sorry, cannot get more detailed than that).

Yeah Im kinda doing research in the nueroscience field but its not autism related. But I would like to do autism related research someday.