How Society Forces Autistics to Become Inhibited & Passive

<p>Eric, a Black queer parent in his forties had to spend years looking for a psychiatrist who would even entertain assessing him as Autistic.</p> <p>He knew he wanted the potential legal protections that a diagnosis could afford him, particularly the option to take qualifying exams for graduate school in a quiet, private setting. He&rsquo;d found test-taking environments to be completely destabilizing and distracting his entire life &mdash; so much so that he&rsquo;d barely even gotten into his graduate program. Yet for all the exclusions he had repeatedly faced, Eric&rsquo;s neurodiversity was something that white-dominated institutions around him always refused to see.</p> <p><a href="https://devonprice.medium.com/how-society-forces-autistics-to-become-inhibited-passive-686cce845ef1"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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