Autism Charities Frame Power and Pity

Study Exposes How Institutional Narratives Shape Public Understanding of Autism In late October 2025 a PLOS ONE paper by Helen Abnett, Kathryn Williams, Willow Holloway and Aimee Grant quietly shifted the ground under Britain’s autism sector . It didn’t announce a cure or a crisis. It simply read what charities wrote about autistic people and asked what those words revealed. What the authors found…