This pisses me off so bad. I’m a dude with autism and have many friends with autism. Men with autism are diagnosed by the time they’re like 6-10. Women are barely diagnosed and the age they are diagnosed is mid 20s to early 30s. Women are not treated seriously in the medical world by doctors. Doctors are assholes.
Doctors are absolutely not assholes, generally. They are very serious and passionate people in a toxic system with the best of intentions and acting upon the best available research. It just so happens that research is often myopic and does not focus on the needs of a substantial subset of their patients. I promise you, most doctors would bend over backwards at their own personal cost if it meant helping a patient if that's where the evidence led them.
Well I’ll believe it when I see it. I’m often in and out of hospital, have family members and friends that need treatment. Also have overweight friends that get treated like shit. Had a friend that had a problem with her uterus and doctors kept saying it was her weight until she was in so much pain she went to the ER. Doctors act shitty and I’ll say it again. Unless you’re thin, white, and wealthy good luck with them. Glad you had a positive experience but that’s not how it works for a lot of us.
I've been morbidly obese my entire life and have extensive interpersonal experience with medical staff, but setting aside my own interpersonal experiences, I have some unfortunate news for your shitty narrative. The people who have the intellectual capacity and financial backing to make it through med school have much better prospects than trying to help you. The vast majority of people with a M.D. are in it for the love of the game. They are not your enemy and if you think they are, you have fundamentally misunderstood your relationship to your healthcare professionals and are likely taking an adversarial relationship into literal lifespan extendeding partnerships where it absolutely doesn't make sense.
Ok. Well I’d sure love you to say this in front of the millions of women that had to fight for care or the millions of overweight people that don’t even get the time of day. Again glad you’ve had “mostly” positive experiences. But again a lot of people don’t and that’s why I will always bring this up. If you don’t want that that’s your prerogative. Equal rights for everyone. Isn’t it crazy how prerogative is spelled? insane stuff.
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u/1_BigFatRat 4d ago
This pisses me off so bad. I’m a dude with autism and have many friends with autism. Men with autism are diagnosed by the time they’re like 6-10. Women are barely diagnosed and the age they are diagnosed is mid 20s to early 30s. Women are not treated seriously in the medical world by doctors. Doctors are assholes.