Medicine has not been kind.
If you are Autistic and you have had a bad experience in a medical setting, you are not unusual. You are in the majority.
If you are Autistic and you have had a bad experience in a medical setting, you are not unusual. You are in the majority.
Diagnostic overshadowing is what it is called when a clinician sees autism in your file and stops looking for anything else. The chest pain gets filed under anxiety. The abdominal pain gets filed under sensory. The neurological symptom gets filed under stimming. By the time the real thing is found, it has often been found late.
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