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I'm hearing what you say. I'll ask in the next assessment to be administered a Trauma symptoms Investigation Form in Autistic Spectrum Disorders. I first need my autism spectrum disorder diagnosis to be further validated (it's both private and public health diagnosis now but I need it to be recognised by my national healthcare support system and from there I can move further or else I risk other incompetent clinicians will start again with the whole "oh no, you're too smart and you talk, you can't be autistic, my autistic nephew screams all the time banging his head in a wall and can't even go to the bathroom by himself!")
Comment by Natural_Professor809 at 30/01/2024 at 20:15 UTC
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I'm also from Italy. Here "autism" means either mental retardation or down syndrome: I was EXTREMELY lucky finding a couple of neuroscience research centers specialised in autism where they actually KNOW about autism.
Comment by theconstellinguist at 30/01/2024 at 20:23 UTC
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Oh man, that is seriously ignorant of autism. Sounds like they're conflating intelligence with autism. Autism is more or less a type of brain that develops a certain way; it can have any IQ. That sounds grossly incompetent if they've conflated those two. That said, I feel really bad for people who are autistic and full scale intellectually disabled without any protective savant syndrome at the same time. I can't imagine the ignorance they go through having one conflated with the other constantly. It must be torturous.