Come sono: dichiarazione sull’autismo disinformazione
https://asiam.ie/news/a-statement-on-autism-misinformation
di donalhunt
Come sono: dichiarazione sull’autismo disinformazione
https://asiam.ie/news/a-statement-on-autism-misinformation
di donalhunt
8 commenti
Are the Healy Raes at it again? Yes! 🙄
A statement that explains almost nothing about what was said.
I’m completely unaware of what was said, but given the person who said it? I can take a wild guess about just how nuanced and considered it might be.
[https://blogs.bcm.edu/2016/07/25/a-single-species-of-gut-bacteria-can-reverse-autism-related-social-behavior-in-mice/](https://blogs.bcm.edu/2016/07/25/a-single-species-of-gut-bacteria-can-reverse-autism-related-social-behavior-in-mice/)
Gut dysfunction is much more important in autism treatment
>Autism is a natural variation in human neurology – there is not more Autistic people than in the past but there are more people accessing diagnosis
Baffling that some people cannot or don’t want to understand this.
Didn’t DHR deny climate change and say weather was dependent on what the fairies were up to?
Did he claim that people with autism were fairies
Monumentally ignorant from a national level representative. Had to open that blasted Musk “free speech” social and search “Danny Healy Rae autism” to see it
I’m not diagnosed with autism. I’m a half decent public speaker, I’ve a career which requires me to with lots of stakeholders etc. I actually didn’t ever get the MMR because of allergies when I was a kid (subsequently got the measles and had to spend a week in quarantine in hospital with some vicious symptoms and likely a subsequent asthma diagnosis not long after).
I was diagnosed with ADHD at almost 40 recently. It was always there, but the imposed structure of the first 30 years of my life protected me from a lot of my worst weaknesses, but have become really problematic at this point. During the assessment, they test for autism, but only a psychiatrist can give a formal diagnosis. I scored 9/10 in three different test for autism. I probably am, but in my case, I seem to have less severe impacts from it and frankly, for me, it’s more of a personality trait than anything.
All of this is to say, 40 years ago, I don’t get diagnosed for ADHD or autism as an adult, because if I start experiencing severe executive dysfunction, my life probably just slowly falls apart and I become so failure version of myself.
It’s always existed in the same proportions, it’s really just that our awareness and testing for these things has improved.
Perhaps relatedly, my neighbour died a few years back (elderly bachelor, quiet lad who worked for Irish rail) and me and my brother were helping empty out his house for the family and we found a stick to unlock the attic door. There was a ladder. So up we went, found a light switch and the entire attic was covered in a giant model train set world. Bridges, and trees and towns etc. switchboards and controls everywhere. Anywho, to my knowledge, the man was never diagnosed for anything in his life until the cancer that killed him.
Danny Healy Rae never managed to finish secondary school and wears it as a badge of honour and I believe we need all types of people represented, but not if they are going to spread ignorance or are incapable of understanding evidence based science.