On Language, Accents & Diagnosis
Neurodivergent Narratives Podcast
English - October 22, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 69 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement adhd autistics mental health black mental health mental wellbeing neurodivergent intersectionality self improvement actually autistic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode talks a little about the story of someone I work with and from an intersectional lens (being an immigrant to a "western country", second language speaker and a person of colour). The problems that he was going through in order to get a proper diagnosis and thoughts on three things have made it difficult for him to get the proper diagnosis and support that he needed. These are merely some initial thoughts as I go deeper into this in upcoming episodes specifically when looking at immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers and neurodivergence...
CORRECTION: I mention PDA profile autistics and making eye contact with ease, but actually want to clarify that it LOOKS as if it's easy and natural, but it's not always the case! It can be extremely spoon-draining to mask in ways where you're forcing yourself to make eye contact as a PDA autistic too!
Three thoughts on:
1. Lack of cultural competency
2. Language barriers
3. Clinician bias of language
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