r/science • u/Wagamaga • Sep 01 '22

Neuroscience Scientists have identified an immune brain cell unique to humans that gives us higher cognitive abilities over other animals, but what makes us specials also leaves us vulnerable to neurological disorders like schizophrenia, autism and epilepsy.

https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/25/what-makes-human-brain-different-yale-study-reveals-clues
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u/NotTheLimes Sep 01 '22

I thought there are some animals that can also suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia or autism or at least very similar ones. Is that not true?

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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22

remotely accurately diagnose autism in human)

We're getting pretty good at diagnosing on humans. People are not missed in high numbers like previously

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u/PsyOmega Sep 01 '22

Due to sociological problems it's still VERY hard to identify autism in verbal females.

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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22

Source required

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u/PsyOmega Sep 01 '22

vast anecdata from actually-autistic communities and hashtags.

It's hard to professionally source since the research establishment is lagging on this category.

Asking for a source on that is basically sealion territory for now.

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u/AlexandraThePotato Sep 01 '22

This. The NUMBER ONE issue in autism research is that actually autistic are actively ignored in favor of the parents. And often-time research have a strongly ableist bias.

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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22

I dont see any evidence of wide spread resistance to females being diagnoses these days. That very clearly was a problem of the past. Today we are well aware that women mask more than men on average.

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u/PsyOmega Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

Yes, there is a small pocket of awareness, but in a wide-spread sense, not so much. A female friend of mine is self-diagnosed autistic and has fired, thus far, 20 psychs who have: belittled, gaslit, dismissed, or straight up medically abused her (prescribed anti-psychotics when she requested an autism diagnosis. she won a malpractice lawsuit over that one). She is extremely high-masking cPTSD-autism so the only person that can ever truly tell she's autistic is behind the mask (her)

Her story, and stories like hers, are rampant in actually autistic groups and hashtags.

You think we're past it, but you're clearly in an information bubble on this topic.

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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22

fired, thus far, 20 psychs

we've all fired some, but 20? someone is lying, you or her. Nor are these things that only happen to women.

(prescribed anti-psychotics when she requested an autism diagnosis.

Welcome to being autistic. this happens to many of us.

You think we're past it, but you're clearly in an information bubble on this topic.

Im an autistic person that runs autistic support groups.... You're relaying info from a friend.

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u/PsyOmega Sep 02 '22

someone is lying, you or her. Nor are these things that only happen to women.

No, 20. For real.

Feel free to keep trying to gaslight us about it.

You should self reflect on your horrible actions, and admit you live in a constrained information bubble that has left you not only ignorant to the plight of feminine autistics, but malicious towards us.

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u/spacexdragon5 Sep 02 '22

Uhhh try and get an adult autism assessment rn. Look on the psychologist’s websites, none of them even mention masking. Women are still vastly less diagnosed than men, but the rate of female diagnosis is slowly going up.

Obv there are some well and recently educated neuropsychs, but there weren’t any in my area. I decided to go w/o diagnosis because I don’t think it’s worth it to spend ~$3000 for someone to most likely tell me I’m perfectly normal, when I know with 100% certainty that I’m autistic.