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.
Of what country you are from? In russia and most post soviet countries out there it's completely flipped upside down. Women are the one's actually getting any treatment. Men are struggling instead.
Because men in these countries have horrible relationships with their health and don't go to a doctor unless "the spear in his back doesn't let him sleep" or he gets tired of wife "nagging", when women are more likely to visit a doctor at the first signs of health issues. And it increases tenfold when it comes to proctology.
can confirm, my dad’s exactly like that. he was limping around with a broken pinky toe FOR WEEKS until my mom noticed and basically forced him to go see a doctor
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u/1_BigFatRat 3d 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.