“…Drawing from this, autistic involvement may be a valuable component of effective autism training, especially considering the importance of autistic representation in autism related topics to promote empowerment and ensure "nothing about us without us" (Charlton, 1998), and autistic people's expertise about autism due to their lived experience (Gillespie-Lynch et al, 2017). Indeed, some effective online trainings were developed in collaboration with autistic people, and/or have included autistic people (e.g., autistic university students, PhD candidates, and academics) featuring in the training via videos and reciting person-first narratives (Gillespie-Lynch et al, 2015;Jones et al, 2021;Waisman et al, 2023), andGillespie-Lynch et al (2022) found autism training developed in a participatory way (i.e., working autistic collaborators to edit content and add videos of topics) was more effective at improving autism knowledge and reducing stigma than training developed with non-autistic people. Qualitative feedback from this study's non-autistic university student participants suggested the participatory training's effectiveness was due to having an (inter)personal element, better accessibility, and superior clarity of information.…”