- Title
- ‘If i don’t do it, i’m out of rhythm and i can’t focus as well’: positive and negative adult interpretations of therapies aimed at ‘fixing’ their restricted and repetitive behaviours in childhood
- Creator
- McCormack, Lynne; Wong, Sze Wing; Campbell, Linda E.
- Relation
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05644-6
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Restricted and repetitive behaviours (RRBs) are observed in many children presenting with characteristics of autism and are frequently the targets of psychological interventions. This study used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to identify positive and negative interpretations from four young adults who received behavioural interventions in their childhood designed to ‘fix’ RRBs. Two superordinate themes were identified: (1) Doubt, stigma and being fixed according to others, and (2) Embracing Authenticity. They highlighted juxtaposed positions from exclusion, rejection, criticism, and self-doubt in childhood, to rejecting societal censure and embracing authentic growth in adult life. As adults, though the participants recognised themselves as neurologically different from others, they redefined themselves through a lens of neurodiversity, and therefore as not needing to be fixed.
- Subject
- restricted and repetitive behaviours; Autism spectrum disorder; interpretative phenomenological analysis; neurological diversity; psychological growth
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447091
- Identifier
- uon:43049
- Identifier
- ISSN:0162-3257
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2022 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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