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Record W4409497547 · doi:10.1089/aut.2024.0326

“These Experiences also Relate to my Neurodiverse Identity”: An Intersectional Understanding of Heterosexist Events Among Autistic-LGBTQ+ Individuals

2025· article· en· W4409497547 on OpenAlexaff
Meredith R. Maroney, Rachel Chickerella, Emily Coombs, Heidi M. Levitt, Sharon G. Horne

Bibliographic record

VenueAutism in Adulthood · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicAutism Spectrum Disorder Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHeterosexismPsychologyHeteronormativitySexual identityLesbianSexual minorityIdentity (music)Sexual orientationIntersectionalityGender identityHomosexualityQueerSociologyGender studiesDevelopmental psychologySocial psychologyHuman sexualityPsychoanalysis

Abstract

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Background:Given the high likelihood of Autistic individuals also being sexual and gender minorities, it is important to understand how Autistic-LGBTQ+ people understand prejudice events in the context of their intersectional identities. Methods:In this study, we used reflexive thematic analysis guided by an intersectional lens to explore experiences of heterosexism among 49 Autistic-LGBTQ+ adults. Specifically, we explored two issues as follows: (1) the nature of the heterosexist events they experienced and (2) the identities Autistic LGBTQ participants thought were related to a distressing heterosexist event they had experienced. Results:Heterosexist events were characterized by four themes, including rejection, harassment, invalidation, and discrimination. Participants often felt that several identities were salient when considering their heterosexist event. The four themes that described the experience of intersectional stressors for Autistic-LGBTQ+ participants are abbreviated here as follows: (1) assumptions about autism, (2) gender “as a bit of a double blow,” (3) queerness as “abhorrent,” and (4) “too young to know better.” Conclusion:We use intersectionality theory to frame stigma experiences for Autistic people who are also sexual and gender minorities, exploring clinical implications and future directions for research.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.485
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.290 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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