All those damn puzzle pieces. There is no missing piece! The only puzzle is the puzzled minds of neurotypical people who can’t expand their perceptions of reality to understand how Autistic people perceive and experience their reality so differently. Both valid. Just different.
'This group didn't suck!' was the best feedback I received at the conclusion of Scattergram’s A.C.C.E.P.T. Group for Neurodivergent Adults >30...
This article is written by a self-diagnosed Autistic female-presenting person in the form of a letter to the psychiatrist who found her too ‘high-functioning’ to be on the Autism spectrum, and is the first in our series of neurodivergent voices.
There is a term for what happens when service providers unintentionally do harm to the people seeking their help: Sanctuary Trauma.
Significant changes made to the Neurodevelopmental Disorder section in the DSM-V combined a number of diagnoses into these six categories.
If you want to explore questions you have about getting a diagnosis and being neurodivergent, you’ve come to the right place.
At Scattergram we have a process for exploring neurodivergence that goes beyond a checklist of deficits.
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