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@naomicfisher @jon_severs Beautiful

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi The pervasive myth that a diagnosis is always a good thing. Lots of young people I work with are very unhappy about their diagnoses. Also, the process of being diagnosed can be traumatic in itself. Mass diagnosis is problematic in many ways.

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi To be charitable, I don’t think that they do, I think they believe the rhetoric, as it sounds you do? I have had many parents say to me that my (free to them) reports were much more useful that the diagnostic reports they had paid for.

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi UNWISELY!

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi The money is being spent in wisely

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi That’s not my experience

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi If they have EHCPs then it’s highly likely their access to your services will have come after a period of time of highly unsatisfactory provision, or lack of provision. Children should not have to wait to be ‘diagnosed’ or to have EHCPs in order to get appropriate ed provision

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi Obviously not if that’s how you make your living!

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@stimimi The amount of money going into autism diagnoses is obscene.

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@stimimi Inexperienced early career clinicians can recognise autism in about 5minutes with a high level of later accuracy (I can’t remember the research evidence on this, but it exists). Why not assume autism and only go into more detail if necessary later?

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi Sadly yes, however, many of us in the UK would prefer not to go that way, or at least to reflect on how best to spend money to really help and support people. Elaborate diagnosis rarely does this IMO, it looks superficially impressive, but isn’t really all that useful.

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@ACT2CAM @stimimi Cancer mostly (though not always) requires medical intervention ; autism of itself doesn’t.

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@milton_damian For the successful pop stars, actors etc that have embraced ADHD in later life, I can see that it has been very validating for them And almost certainly not limited them. For some children and adolescents, I’ve seen first hand that narrowing down and othering of themselves

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@naomicfisher I think This is now old fashioned thinking, what matters now is how people feel. Research now often consists of asking people what they think/feel. I can see a place for that, but not as a total substitute for attempts to try to get a representative perspective. Maybe I’m old.

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@Shrink_at_Large Really?

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@MrsNickyClark I think we are currently at a stage where women and girls have to accommodate to fairly massive male expectations , this is how it is.

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@OwenJonesStan @jk_rowling @RealEndated @ForWomenScot @campbellclaret Do they stop mansplaining when they lose their tackle?

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@redditchrache So true, such a waste of money.

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@joenutt_author @redditchrache The children don’t always end up happy and successful in these schools, many of these schools are disappointing when you get behind the glossy brochures and hard sell.

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@possumbrisbane @stimimi Hopefully it’s just a phase and humanity will emerge from the ashes…