TABLE 4.

Ableism cues, their definition and example quotes.

Cue types	Definition	Exemplar quotes
Dehumanisation (Haslam, 2006)	Denial of full humanness, infantilisation, compared to non-human animals, treated as lacking in rationality, refinement, cultural inability, as passive, or fungible, or machine-like.	“autism people may demonstrate an apparent absence of empathy for people’s feelings, lack of responsiveness, awareness of social cues or cultural norms.”
Objectification (LaCroix and Pratto, 2015)	Instrumentality, denial of autonomy, inertness, violability, ownership, denial of subjectivity, or fungibility	“Without often comorbid intellectual disability, and dependent upon the severity of their autism, they are interesting, often charming, and valuable members of the community.”
Stigmatizing	Strongly stereotyping, risk-based language, strong othering based on normative expectations	“shut down from the outside world; rigid; emotional; fat”