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"Please Don’t Search for “Treatment for Autism” Advice on TikTok", by Adria Nassim
"I recently spoke to a group of first-year medical students at Indiana University Medical School. After I had finished and had started taking questions, I was very interested in how many of the questions had to do with the neurodiversity movement, “fixing, autism, or the idea of “taking away” a patient’s autism as emerging professionals...
No matter where an individual falls on the autism spectrum, they will each have their own areas in which they require support, some more so, and some less but likely to a certain degree throughout their lives...
The more I read online about the neurodiversity movement, and the more posts I see written by individuals with autism talking about clinicians and professionals trying to harm or fix people with autism, the more I deliberately choose not to respond and completely disengage."
Nassim, A. (2022). Introducing Adria - November 2022. Retrieved from https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/articles/please-dont-search-for-treatment-advice-on-tik-tok.html
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