This is a guest blog by Kim Crawley.
I’ve worked in cybersecurity for about a decade, but I’ve been autistic for my entire life. Careers usually start in adulthood, but autism is something children are born with. And contrary to what some people assume, autism doesn’t disappear at age 18. Autism is for life. Unfortunately, once autistic people become adults, services become a lot less plentiful. For each professional who diagnoses autism in adults, there are dozens or possibly hundreds of professionals who only diagnose autism in children.
There exists an entire industry of supposed treatments for autistic children. Some of those supposed treatments are obviously harmful and should be illegal, like bleach-based snake oil (“Miracle Mineral Supplement” or “Miracle Mineral Solution”) to be administered to children orally or… through a different anatomical vector. Others, like Applied Behavioral Analysis, are widely…
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December 17, 2019 at 09:09PM
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