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Conceptualising well-being for autistic persons
Journal of Medical Ethics
|April 1, 2016
Summary
This paper explores well-being for autistic individuals, finding the capability approach useful but highlighting the need to focus on real opportunities over achievements. It emphasizes shared capabilities across autistic and non-autistic lives.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of well-being
- Autism studies
- Disability studies
Background:
- Limited philosophical research exists on well-being specifically for autistic individuals.
- Existing theories of well-being may not adequately capture autistic experiences.
- Autism is characterized by significant heterogeneity among individuals.
Purpose of the Study:
- To address the gap in philosophical well-being research concerning autistic lives.
- To explore the suitability of the capability approach for understanding autistic well-being.
- To investigate the contributions of autistic phenomenology to well-being theories.
Main Methods:
- Concise account of autism, emphasizing heterogeneity.
- Discussion of basic autistic features and their relevance to well-being.
- Analysis of the capability approach through an "autism-lens".
Main Results:
- The capability approach offers a potentially helpful framework for autistic well-being.
- Some capabilities crucial for autistic individuals are also relevant for non-autistic people.
- Identified a key debate: focusing on achievements (functionings) versus opportunities (capabilities) for autistics.
Conclusions:
- Philosophical well-being research can benefit from incorporating autistic experiences.
- The capability approach can be refined by considering autistic perspectives.
- Further research is needed to determine the optimal focus (achievements vs. capabilities) for autistic well-being.
Keywords:
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