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infestedguest · 1 year ago

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“Appropriate play,” “unwanted behaviors,” I AM STRANGLING U WITH MY MIND RN.

Autistic people are significantly more likely to develop depression and anxiety, but noooo, the real issue that I, a medical professional, need to be treating is that this kid is “playing wrong”.

Treating any kind of neurodivergence in a manner where the goal is to make the patient more palatable to neurotypicals and not to, you know, actually fucking help the person who actually has the condition deal with issues relating to it has got to be some kind of violation of the hippocratic oath (or really just common sense in general).

Like imagine if you had whooping cough and you went to the doctor and instead of actually treating your whooping cough they were like “well all your hacking and wheezing is probably making it harder for your roommates to get to sleep at night, so how about you just stop breathing?”

#speaking as a neurodivergent who has had whooping cough #whether or not that neurodivergence includes autism specifically depends on which doctor you ask and when #like when I was five I received a PDDNOS diagnosis along with an ADHD diagnosis #which basically meant that I had enough autistic traits to be classified as autistic but not enough to diagnose me with actual autism #but the therapist I saw both for the longest amount of time and most recently was pretty sure it was just ADHD #but other doctors I’ve seen disagree #and things are further complicated by the fact that PDDNOS isn’t even a diagnosis anymore #since it got folded into ASD in 2013 when the DSM-5 was published #vent #kinda #anna talking about stuff #ableism #seriously

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