Autism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Who identified your condition?

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Autism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

It’s interesting cos it’s sometimes random, and not all of us are IDd at school

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I went for an ADHD evaluation and the doctor doing it said: “yeah, we should do autism next”

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