Trevor Byrd, teen Nonspeaker, writes about the benefits of therapy for Nonspeakers whose emotional needs are often overlooked in the push for interventions.
I am autistic. The teen years are rough on everyone—there’s no question about it. Surviving them when you live with undiagnosed ASD and co-occurring, untreated major depression… well, speaking from personal experience, that counts as a special brand of hell.
Many barriers exist that keep autistic people from maintaining their health and self care best practices, and this can have catastrophic effects on autistic individuals.
Eventually I spoke to my mum about it. Well…I never really discussed it, I simply said that I received the diagnosis. I wanted to explain
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