Dr. Mel Houser
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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There's a study by Daugherty et al.
in 2020 that
looked at the barriers faced by autistic adults accessing primary care, and these clusters of themes around the environment, healthcare interactions, limitations related to the provider, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that autistic people perceive that healthcare professionals don't have adequate knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide care to them.
And the systemic barriers.
I think there are so many defaults in the health care system.
I mean, just like there's defaults in school and defaults in workplace.
It's the default one way to do the thing.
And when we have this mainstream society with the one lane to go down, it doesn't have to be like that.
And so health care is that way.
You know, you need to pick up the phone to make an appointment.
You have to fill out the 20 page packet to become a new patient.
Like all those things.
And it's just that's the default.
And so anytime anyone's brain works differently than the default, they're not only going to struggle to access, but even with the accommodations and workarounds, there's still others.
That's what the literature shows, and that was certainly the experience in our patient community.
That's how we started, actually.
We asked the people what they wanted.
We asked the people what they needed, what they wanted.
We asked them what stressed them out, and we designed programs to address those things.
It was really a co-created process.
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