Advertise with Googlier.com queer | Arizona Capitol Times https://azcapitoltimes.com Your Inside Source for Arizona Government, Politics and Business Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:27:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.11 https://azcapitoltimes.com/files/2023/05/az17.jpg queer | Arizona Capitol Times https://azcapitoltimes.com 32 32 43761567 Activists: doctors’ biased behavior toward autistic adults taints treatment https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2023/03/07/activists-doctors-biased-behavior-toward-autistic-adults-taints-treatment/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2023/03/07/activists-doctors-biased-behavior-toward-autistic-adults-taints-treatment/#respond Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:27:05 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/?p=260822 Doctors often show bias toward autistic adults, demonstrating skepticism about their autistic identity, using ableist language or failing to recognize autistic people may react differently to sensory stimuli like pain, activists say.

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