Table 5.

Percentages of autistic and not autistic participants whose definitions of autism spectrum disorder received each qualitative code.

	Autistic	Not autistic	Group comparison	Effect size
Communication vs. capacity	13.9	5.2	p < 0.001∗	φ = 0.15
Social difficulties	37.5	54.1	p < 0.001∗	φ = 0.17
Restricted interests/behaviors	23.9	24.8	p = 0.85	φ< 0.01
Internal	68.9	54.7	p < 0.001∗	φ = 0.15
Oppose medical model	25.6	10.1	p < 0.001∗	φ = 0.20
Neutral difference	35.9	19.6	p < 0.001∗	φ = 0.18
Support medical model	54.7	76.5	p < 0.001∗	φ = 0.23
Confuse intellectual disability	0.6	0.9	p = 1.00	φ = 0.02
Don’t know	0.6	1.5	p = 0.45	φ = 0.04
Other	3.6	3.4	p = 1.00	φ< 0.01

^∗p ≤ 0.001 on chi-square tests.