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by calamari4065
908 days ago
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As an autistic person, it unfortunately does not work like that. Every single neurodiverse person has their own unique needs. There is no one size fits all technique, not even close. The best you can do is teach some general strategies and an awareness of the fact that these people have unique needs. And generally we do teach these things. It unfortunately is up to the individual to work with their practitioner to come up with an individualized plan of care. It really can't be any other way. Any attempt you make to come up with a universal standard of care for neurodiverse patients will necessarily exclude and likely harm people on other parts of the spectrum. Over-generalizing these things sounds like a good idea up front, but it ends up causing more harm overall. We get stuck with narrow and rigid standards of care that just don't work for more than a small subset of people. This has been a real problem with autism in particular: until very recently the diagnosis and treatments were only concerned with young white boys. There's a very serious problem with women, adults, and all other groups being drastically under-diagnosed and left untreated. More generally, there are very few resources for autistic adults because of this. It's very slowly changing though |
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