Do First Impressions of Autistic Adults Differ Between Autistic and Nonautistic Observers?

Autistic observers noticed the same differences in autistic adults as non-autistic observers did, and it didn't put them off.

DeBrabander, K. M., Morrison, K. E., Jones, D. R., Faso, D. J., Chmielewski, M. & Sasson, N. J. (2019). Do First Impressions of Autistic Adults Differ Between Autistic and Nonautistic Observers? Autism in Adulthood, 1(4), 250–257.

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Journal article

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doi.org/10.1089/aut.2019.0018

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Against the abstract, 15 September 2026

Why it is on the list

Autistic and non-autistic raters made similar trait judgements from short videos of autistic adults. But only for non-autistic raters did those judgements reduce interest in interacting. The course keeps this reading because it complicates the neat version of week 11: both implementations perceive the difference; what varies is whether the difference counts against someone.