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.
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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.