Eileen Devine
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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you know, at most at risk of having a child with FASD.
So I am I'm 42, I'm Caucasian, I am in um an upper middle class family, I have a master's degree, I have a supportive family, my life is very stable.
And my cohort, actually slightly younger, 35 to 40,
is actually the group of um individuals who are most at risk for having a child with FASD.
And it's the amount of social drinking we do, it's amount of, you know, that that just like you were describing, we just don't talk about it very often in our society, um, this disorder, what causes it.
And there's a lot of feelings around this topic, understandably, throughout our society.
So
Yeah, so that's the tricky part.
It actually looks very similar to other diagnoses that we're very comfortable with and familiar with.
in our society.
So some of the major misdiagnoses that happen is um ADHD.
The symptoms of the symptomatology of ADHD, the behaviors that we see, um, almost align perfectly with FASD.
And um there's also a high misdiagnosis of autism as well.
And and many kids have have both diagnoses kind of side by side along with with many others because of the confusion I think providers have.
when trying to figure out what exactly is going on with these kids.
And so when we think about the brain and everything that our brain does for us, it's again connected to all of our behaviors that we carry out, you know, but minute by minute every single day.
It only makes sense that if if there was a brain that was exposed to alcohol or any other substances prenatally,
that it would change in structure and function.
And the re the way that we would recognize that is through the behaviors because they're connected.
So we see those behaviors as symptoms.
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