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Aimee Grant investigates the needs of

autistic people
Her research focuses on reproductive health care

Public health researcher Aimee Grant considers autism a cognitive di�erence, rather than a de�cit.
MATTHEW ARTHUR

By Saima S. Iqbal

APRIL 19, 2024 AT 9:30 AM

Before becoming a researcher, Aimee Grant worked as a caregiver for six

years in Cornwall, England, supporting autistic adults in group homes. But
only more than a decade later, after befriending an autistic colleague at a
sociology conference, did she realize she was autistic herself.

The stereotypical view of autism as a brain impairment more commonly

found in men made it di�cult for Grant to make sense of her internal world.

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