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How to Recognize When Patients are Autistic, because 1 in 5 are! Advice from a UK Psychiatrist.
This is a very interesting/insightful thread I copied from Twitter before the storm, in the 'how does this total stranger know so much about my life' category. Some of our conversation at the meeting Saturday reminded me of it so I thought I would share. Written by Dr Sam Porter @PerinatalBirder His Twitter profile describes him as " #Neurodivergent Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist" and he describes this thread "Here’s a thread I’ve written for psychiatrists to help them pi

peiautisticadults
Oct 13, 20228 min read
The MYTH of #HighFunctioningAutism
This post further explores the complicated notion of low and high functioning autistic people that I posted about on March 27 "High Functioning? It depends: " and it also touches on what I was trying to say in "Are Co-occurring Conditions Part of Autism?" that I posted a few days ago, that there should be support for all autistic people as we ALL struggle. This is actually a twitter thread posted by A_Typical_Psychiatrist @AtypicalPsych whose profile identifies them as Former

peiautisticadults
Dec 11, 20215 min read
For Autistic Tweeters
I wasn't aware the hashtag #AutisticElders existed until this morning along with the #AskingAutistics and of course identifying yourself...

peiautisticadults
Aug 30, 20212 min read
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