Misadventures in misdiagnosis part 1: autism, visual snow, and my introduction to female hysteria, age 7
My entrée into the patronisingly positivist dimension of the medical model came early. I learned that no matter how real and disruptive a condition was for me, if it couldn’t be measured objectively and quantitatively by a so-called expert, it couldn’t possibly exist. This is the story of a weird visual disturbance that co-occurs with my autism.
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