• Question: What would the first step be to achieve your goal if you won the prize money (what sort of activities could the autistic people and their families be involved with)?

    Asked by anon-184204 to Lorna on 8 Nov 2018.
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      Lorna Camus answered on 8 Nov 2018:


      Good question! I think even showing them our labs and the university, and meeting all the autism researchers would be a great step to make uni and research less daunting and maybe more accessible for them.
      I would love to set up a showcase, with autism researchers across Edinburgh (there’s 4 universities here!) showing autistic people what research they are doing and engaging them with it, and hopefully reduce their mistrust of it by showing them we are doing research which will improve their lives.
      What would be best though would be to set up collaborations with autistic people and researchers to develop research that would definitely address issues autistic people want us to address! That could be the next step 🙂

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