Autism and Mental Health - Prof Francesca Happé (Rosalind Franklin Lecture at Birkbeck)

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[@fiikahlo]

Thank you! Very interesting

[@Leo_Koesters]

Thank you for this valuable introduction! Currently studying psychology and building a platform dedicated to Autism and ADHD. There is too little teachings in academia about Autism and ADHD. Even one of my professors admitted this recently. Let’s better the life of countless individuals on the Autism and ADHD spectrum by educating ourselves.

[@a.b.n.5447]

Thank you, this is especially important for me, diagnosed in 2020 at going on 62, CPTSD diagnosed in 2012.

[@ruthhorowitz7625]

I was diagnosed with cptsd on 2020, and asd on 2022 at age 57.

[@Jasonsadventures]

I constantly wonder if I should get diagnosed, I'm certainly strongly autistic but I'm quite busy with my autistic children so there's not really much time or money left for these extra things. I don't have depression but I also don't and have never associated with anyone outside my house and have a reasonable amount of constant anxiety. Usually (but not always) just below the level of body shaking :p so it's not noticeable. (I'm 50 so no one really ever noticed me being especially unusual other than failing school in early life and later becoming gifted in secondary school...odd I know but it was like a light switch when I was 12)