“No Way Out Except From External Intervention”: First-Hand Accounts of Autistic Inertia Item Type article Authors Buckle, Karen Leneh; email:
[email protected]; Leadbitter, Kathy; Poliakoff, Ellen; Gowen, Emma Citation Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12, page 631596 Publisher Frontiers Media S.A. Rights Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/ Download date 02/10/2021 16:45:59 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10034/625394 fpsyg-12-631596 July 12, 2021 Time: 12:27 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 13 July 2021 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631596 “No Way Out Except From External Intervention”: First-Hand Accounts of Autistic Inertia Karen Leneh Buckle1*, Kathy Leadbitter2, Ellen Poliakoff1 and Emma Gowen1 1 Body, Eye and Movement Lab, Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2 Social Development Research Group, Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom This study, called for by autistic people and led by an autistic researcher, is the first to explore ‘autistic inertia,’ a widespread and often debilitating difficulty acting on their intentions. Previous research has considered initiation only in the context of social interaction or experimental conditions. This study is unique in considering difficulty initiating tasks of any type in real life settings, and by gathering qualitative data directly from autistic people. Four face-to-face and 2 online (text) focus groups were conducted with 32 autistic adults (19 female, 8 male, and 5 other), aged 23–64 Edited by: who were able to express their internal experiences in words.