Identity and Discourse Among #ActuallyAutistic Twitter Users With Motor Differences.
Identity and Discourse Among #ActuallyAutistic Twitter Users With Motor Differences.
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身份与话语
DOI：
10.1123/jmld.2023-0007
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Miller,HaylieL
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作者：
Chatterjee,Riya;Fears,NicholasE;Lichtenberg,Gavin;Tamplain,PriscilaM;Miller,HaylieL
尽管越来越多的人意识到自闭症社区中运动差异的普遍存在，但人们对它们的功能影响知之甚少。与基于实验室的结构化采访相比，社交媒体提供了一个理想的环境来观察这种话语，这种环境不那么刻意。本研究的目的是(A)确定自认为自闭症和运动障碍/患有发展协调障碍的推特用户相对于自闭症用户的比例，以及(B)确定从两个带有运动相关提示的缓和聊天线索中出现的共同主题。使用Twitter研究应用程序编程接口，我们在1个月的时间内从用户的公共档案和包含与自闭症和发展协调障碍相关术语的推文中获取数据。我们还从两个与运动技能相关的#AutChat线程中获取了数据，其中包括来自31个单独的自闭症用户(两个患有共同发生的发展协调障碍)的151条推文。在这些推文中，44条是关于运动差异的，其余的是与运动技能联系较松散的讨论话题。以下共同主题被量化：手部灵巧、肢体、口腔运动、粗大运动、姿势、平衡、抽筋、运动疼痛和协调性。总而言之，这些发现表明，自闭症患者的运动差异得到了高度的认识和讨论，但并没有以同样的速度公开地融入他们的身份。
Despite a growing awareness of the prevalence of motor differences in the autistic community, their functional impact is poorly understood. Social media offers the ideal setting to observe this discourse in a less-contrived setting than lab-based structured interviews. The aims of the present study were (a) to determine the proportion of Twitter users who self-identify as autistic and dyspraxic/having developmental coordination disorder, relative to autistic alone, and (b) to identify common themes emerging from two moderated chat threads with motor-related prompts. Using the Twitter research application programming interface, we harvested data from users’ public profiles and tweets containing terms related to autism and developmental coordination disorder within a 1-month time period. We also harvested data from two #AutChat threads related to motor skills, which included 151 tweets from 31 unique autistic users (two with co-occurring developmental coordination disorder). Of these tweets, 44 were explicitly about motor differences, while the remainder consisted of discussion topics more loosely associated with motor skills. The following common themes were quantified: manual dexterity, lower extremity, oral motor, gross motor, posture, balance, stimming, movement pain, and coordination. Together, these findings indicate that motor differences are highly recognized and discussed among autistic individuals but are not overtly integrated into their identities at the same rate.