• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Where I live they try really hard not to give you a diagnosis as an adult because it might require the health services to do something more about it, and would take more resources. Just getting medication was a hassle so I gave up on the system trying to help me.

    Children get a diagnosis but government help will become much more limited when they turn adult.

    Apparently in Canada and specifically in Quebec, nerodivergence goes away as soon as someone becomes an adult.

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      8 months ago

      Queue bullshit like “ADHD lessens when you’re an Adult”, which is basically adults being better at masking and coping.

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      3 months ago

      Isn’t Quebec forcing ABA and occasionally some concentration camp-like stuff (though camps are not for autistics as far as I know)?

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        3 months ago

        They only concentration camps that I’m aware of are for the English speakers caught by the language police.

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    8 months ago

    Cue my dumbfounded wife of ten years the morning I asked her if she thought I could be autistic.

    Gestures broadly at everything.