Table 2.

Correlations between items measuring perceptions of autism acceptance

	Societal acceptance		Family and friend acceptance		Personal acceptance
	r	p	r	p	r	p
Family and friend acceptance	0.485	< 0.001
Personal acceptance	0.106	0.272	0.210	0.027
Acceptance from society over past week*	− 0.721	< 0.001	− 0.440	< 0.001	− 0.102	0.288

*This item was scored according to how much the participant agreed that they had felt accepted by society as an autistic person over the past week on a 5-point scale from “strongly agree” (1) to “strongly disagree” (5). All other items were rated on a scale from “0” (not at all) to “10” (completely)