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How to Advocate for Yourself at the Doctor: A Guide for Neurodivergent Adults
Learning how to advocate for yourself at the doctor can feel intimidating, especially if you’re neurodivergent. Medical environments are often overstimulating, rushed, and structured around fast verbal processing. Providers may interrupt, use unclear language, or unintentionally dismiss lived experience. For neurodivergent adults , this can be dysregulating and exhausting. If you’ve ever left an appointment thinking, “That’s not what I meant,” or “I forgot to ask half my ques

Mema Mansouri, LICSW
Jul 21, 20234 min read
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