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AUTISM AND THE LAW 

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In the past 50 years, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has gone from a narrowly defined, rare disorder of childhood onset to a well-publicized, advocated, and researched lifelong condition, recognized as common and very heterogeneous. All of this makes it much more difficult for a person with autism in the criminal justice system, especially when their fate is to be decided by jurors who may either have no familiarity with autism or whose “familiarity” is based on a television stereotype. As a result, participation in such a system is often humiliating and shaming. Only if remedies such as the ones we propose are adopted will we be able to break the cycle of shame and humiliation that this population now faces

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