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high-support en · ADJ
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(of an autistic person) Requiring a high level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.
In this regard, Participant 3 explained how the series initiated an interesting dialogue in episode 3 (Moon Ji-won & Yoo In-shik, 2022) by portraying how Attorney Young-woo’s autism was utilized by the prosecution in court as evidence to argue the reduced capacity of a high-support autistic defendant.
2022, Allegra Guizzon, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo: A Study into Perceived Representation of Autism by Autistic Women", thesis submitted to Erasmus University, page 34In 2020, Eric Parsa, a high-support autistic young man, died after being restrained and sat on for 9 minutes by Jefferson Parish police in Louisiana.
2023, Alisha Salerno-Ferraro, "Improving Police Response to Autistic Persons: A Community-Informed, Attributional Approach", dissertaiton submitted to York University, page 2"High support" autistic people meanwhile may be non-verbal and have more difficulties with fine motor skills, or any number of other difficulties that require a great deal of support to adapt to the neurotypical world.
2019, Andrew Kirkconnel, "'Where Everyone Waddles Like Me': An Examination of the Autistic Community on Tumblr", thesis submitted to McMaster University, page 13
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low-support