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We need to stop diagnosing each other with autism and ADHD

COMMENT: As Bella Ramsey reveals their autism diagnosis came after a ‘The Last Of Us’ crew member spotted the signs, Helen Coffey questions why we’ve become so emboldened to pronounce neurodivergence in others

The Independent UK

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far

The Anatomy of Melancholy was written more than 400 years ago, but Robert Burton’s masterpiece is strangely modern. Although it brims with quaint language and Latin quotes, it also resembles a medical textbook: a compendium of the symptoms, causes, prognoses and treatments of human misery.

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Grimes reveals autism and ADHD diagnosis

Grimes has taken to social media to reveal that she was diagnosed with autism and ADHD earlier this year.

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Bella Ramsey received autism diagnosis after crew member spotted signs

Actor says they were diagnosed while filming first season of The Last of Us

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Bella Ramsey found autism diagnosis 'freeing'

Bella Ramsey was diagnosed with autism when they shot series one of HBO's drama series 'The Last of Us'.

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Christine McGuinness wins diversity prize for autism and ADHD campaign advocacy

She won the media champion of the year award.

Evening Standard

The Last Of Us’s Bella Ramsey describes receiving autism diagnosis as ‘freeing’

The 21-year-old said the diagnosis has been ‘helpful’ to understand their identity better.

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England star Lucy Bronze opens up on autism and ADHD and how diagnoses helped her on the pitch

Bronze has almost every accolade in women’s football and spoke for the first time about her neurodivergence

The Independent UK

Debunked myths that vaccines cause autism are increasing stigma

As parents resist vaccines over vague potential harms, advocates call it a case of ‘morals more than science’

The Guardian - US

Chelsea: Lucy Bronze opens up on ADHD and autism diagnosis

The right-back was diagnosed with autism and ADHD while away on an England camp in 2021

Evening Standard

Culture warriors see not sick Britain, but a plague of ‘overdiagnosis’. How convenient

Instead of dismissing huge swaths of the population, how about a nuanced conversation about neurodivergence and mental health, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - My child may have ADHD — I am furious that anybody would think this real condition is a 'scam'

Anyone who thinks there’s anything mildly amusing about the reported rise in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses in the UK needs to have a word with themselves.

Evening Standard

‘It’s supposed to be intense’: inside the experimental film that ‘truly captures’ autism

It stars a roaming shapeshifter – and a cat-faced soldier fighting a zombie in a swamp. We go behind the scenes of The Stimming Pool, the first ever feature film to be made by a group of autistic directors

The Guardian - UK

Pierre Novellie at Soho Theatre review: brimming over with laugh-out-loud lines

4/5 The comic deftly blends punchlines with more thought-provoking material on autism and euthanasia

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The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?

A neurologist discusses the dangers of overdiagnosing conditions from Lyme disease to ADHD in an era where technology meets pathology

The Independent UK

Bryan Kohberger’s lawyers insist he shouldn’t face death penalty because he has autism

His attorneys argued that there is an ‘unconscionable risk’ he’ll be executed because of a neurological disorder rather than culpability

The Independent UK

Patients facing 16-year wait for autism tests as MPs say waiting times must fall

Chairwoman of the Health and Social select committee Layla Moran says the public will be unhappy if standards do not improve.

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Fact check: Trump's address to Congress - Roll Call

In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump distorted the facts on fraud, immigration, aid to Ukraine, the economy, autism and more.

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Fact check: President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress

In his Congress speech, Trump made claims about Mexico’s extradition of drug lords, aid to Ukraine and immigration.

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Autism stigma will worsen under Trump

Experts say that stigmas about autism rely on popular misconceptions about how the brain works

The Conversation

Friday essay: ‘I was unseen, even to myself’ – as many as half of people with anorexia are autistic. Fiona Wright is one of them

The final straw, the one that broke this particular camel’s back, was my girlfriend’s receipt of her autism diagnosis over email. She didn’t want to open the report alone and asked if I would read it with her – and when we were done, the only thing I could think…

The Independent UK

Toxic Town’s Jack Thorne: ‘We’re not looking at pain exclusively, but at resilience and survival’

INTERVIEW : The ‘Toxic Town’ writer talks to Gabriel Tate about activism, autism and why television has an originality problem

Medical Daily

Autistic 3-Year-Old Speaks First Words Days After Starting Inexpensive Generic Drug Given For Chemo Patients

The parents of a nonverbal autistic boy in Arizona vouch for the drug after their son spoke his first words just days after taking it.

The Independent UK

These character traits might mean you are autistic. This is how to get diagnosed

More adults than ever are seeking truths about being on the autism spectrum

The Independent UK

Senate confirms anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr as nation’s top health official

Kennedy — who’s repeatedly promoted conspiracies and the debunked link between vaccines and autism — will now lead a sprawling federal bureaucracy that manages public health, research, health guidance, and vaccinations

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