Response to Professor Uta Frith questioning whether autism has lost its meaning and is leading to misdiagnosis

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Chown, N. & Suckle, E. (2026). Response to Professor Uta Frith questioning whether autism has lost its meaning and is leading to misdiagnosis. Psychological Medicine, 56, Article e331. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291726106370

Publication date: 1 Jan 2026 Added to AutiHub: 17 Oct 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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2
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1 / 2 (50.0%)
  1. Nicholas Chown *
  2. Elsa Suckle

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Cited references
9
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9
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0
3 / 9 (33.3%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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0 / 9 (0.0%)
References with detected author names
9 / 9 (100.0%)
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0
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22
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0
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0
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0
9 / 22 (40.9%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 13 / 22 (59.1%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
4 / 22 (18.2%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 4 / 9 (44.4%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 4 / 21 (19.0%).
  1. Atilla Turgay , David W. Goodman , Philip Asherson , Robert A. Lasser , Thomas F. Babcock , Michael L. Pucci et al. (2012). Lifespan Persistence of ADHD . The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 73(02), 192-201. Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.
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  2. Uta Frith , Chris Frith (2024). What makes us social and what does it tell us about mental disorders? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 29(1), 1-9. Informa UK Limited.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2307958 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4391293400
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  3. Barry Wright , Penny Spikins , Hannah Pearson (2020). Should Autism Spectrum Conditions Be Characterised in a More Positive Way in Our Modern World? Medicina, 56(5), 233. MDPI AG.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.3390/medicina56050233 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3024236483
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  4. Kristen Bottema-Beutel , Shannon Crowley LaPoint (2021). Pervasive Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest in Applied Behavior Analysis Autism Literature . Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 676303-676303. Frontiers Media SA.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676303 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3157517315
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  5. Uta Frith (2026). Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? Psychological Medicine, 56, e240-e240. Cambridge University Press (CUP).
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1017/s0033291726105376 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W7172422998
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  6. Schopler (1978). National Society for Autistic Children definition of the syndrome of autism . Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 8(2), 162. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/bf01537864 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3213544504
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