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Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation

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Pain

Hiding Behind Autism: When Health Conditions Are Masked

Between sensory differences, dysregulation, Spoons, burnout, and many other aspects of being autistic, the symptoms of many other health conditions in autistic people are frequently masked. Add to this the further complication of many autistic people experiencing and/or communicating pain or discomfort in non-neurotypical ways, and many autistic people go misdiagnosed – and thus untreated – for many treatable conditions. They suffer needlessly.  International May 12th Awareness Day May 12th is the International Awareness Day[…]

Chronic pain or Chronic complaining?

There are many reason why neurodivergent children (and adults) experience chronic or frequent pain. If your child expresses that they are feeling pain, please don’t assume they are being attention seeking or hypochondriacal, or imagining it. While the experience of pain, or the expression of it, might differ to neurotypical behaviours, it is no less valid. Especially given the number of perfectly rational explanations ND people have for chronic pain that neurotypical people are far[…]

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