Autism Myths That Need to be Dispelled

by Melissa on October 15, 2009

As parents of children with autism, autistic individuals, or professionals that work in the autism field, we have all undoubtedly heard of one or more of the following autism myths:

  • Refrigerator mothers
  • Autism = intellectual disability
  • Autistics can’t show empathy
  • Everyone with autism is nonverbal

Helping to dispel these myths is an important part of raising autism awareness.

As autism spectrum disorder prevalence has gone from 1 in 150 to 1 in 100 children in the United States, age-old myths about autism continue to prevail.

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