Junaid Hussain

So it is a bit, it doesn't quite work like the States. It does in terms of the people that come to see me. So this is an FQI system. I get random people who come to me, not necessarily based on my portfolio or my experience, but I do a lot of urgent care work. So when I speak to a patient on the phone, I can almost immediately tell who they are.

So it is a bit, it doesn't quite work like the States. It does in terms of the people that come to see me. So this is an FQI system. I get random people who come to me, not necessarily based on my portfolio or my experience, but I do a lot of urgent care work. So when I speak to a patient on the phone, I can almost immediately tell who they are.

I can almost immediately tell both who have autism because of the way and directness in which they speak. And the difficulty and anxiety that comes through the phone when they're trying to explain their symptoms and explain the challenges, but they're unable to and they need to take more time.

I can almost immediately tell both who have autism because of the way and directness in which they speak. And the difficulty and anxiety that comes through the phone when they're trying to explain their symptoms and explain the challenges, but they're unable to and they need to take more time.

I can almost immediately tell both who have autism because of the way and directness in which they speak. And the difficulty and anxiety that comes through the phone when they're trying to explain their symptoms and explain the challenges, but they're unable to and they need to take more time.

Or they jump from topic to topic because they have the neurodivergence and ADHD that causes them to struggle to focus. So, yeah, I do see it. And I make sure, from my own perspective, I make sure I take more time with them because it is necessary in order to do justice to the needs that they have.

Or they jump from topic to topic because they have the neurodivergence and ADHD that causes them to struggle to focus. So, yeah, I do see it. And I make sure, from my own perspective, I make sure I take more time with them because it is necessary in order to do justice to the needs that they have.

Or they jump from topic to topic because they have the neurodivergence and ADHD that causes them to struggle to focus. So, yeah, I do see it. And I make sure, from my own perspective, I make sure I take more time with them because it is necessary in order to do justice to the needs that they have.

I have more recently had parents of children with autism come to me and again, and to my wife as well for advice. We had the experience both as a child and having a child with autism and also myself. So we do get that. But within my day-to-day work, yeah, we do get a lot of autistic people who do ring up or who do come and see us.

I have more recently had parents of children with autism come to me and again, and to my wife as well for advice. We had the experience both as a child and having a child with autism and also myself. So we do get that. But within my day-to-day work, yeah, we do get a lot of autistic people who do ring up or who do come and see us.

I have more recently had parents of children with autism come to me and again, and to my wife as well for advice. We had the experience both as a child and having a child with autism and also myself. So we do get that. But within my day-to-day work, yeah, we do get a lot of autistic people who do ring up or who do come and see us.

And the challenge is for me now, having had the lived experience, it's a lot clearer. I'm able to meet their needs a lot better and a lot more easily than I would have done historically. To be honest, I would probably be in the camp of clinicians if they asked me 10 or 15 years ago about ADHD. No, that's a condition of too much cereal, too much etc. But boy, has my mind changed.

And the challenge is for me now, having had the lived experience, it's a lot clearer. I'm able to meet their needs a lot better and a lot more easily than I would have done historically. To be honest, I would probably be in the camp of clinicians if they asked me 10 or 15 years ago about ADHD. No, that's a condition of too much cereal, too much etc. But boy, has my mind changed.

And the challenge is for me now, having had the lived experience, it's a lot clearer. I'm able to meet their needs a lot better and a lot more easily than I would have done historically. To be honest, I would probably be in the camp of clinicians if they asked me 10 or 15 years ago about ADHD. No, that's a condition of too much cereal, too much etc. But boy, has my mind changed.

So there's lots of advice to give in no particular order necessarily, but I would start with make sure that if you can afford it and you're able to get it, or you have medical cover for it, to get the professional assistant in early.

So there's lots of advice to give in no particular order necessarily, but I would start with make sure that if you can afford it and you're able to get it, or you have medical cover for it, to get the professional assistant in early.

So there's lots of advice to give in no particular order necessarily, but I would start with make sure that if you can afford it and you're able to get it, or you have medical cover for it, to get the professional assistant in early.

for you to be able to understand your child and for the diagnosis to relate to the child because they understand, because they will enter school or they will enter the world and see that they are different in some form or another to other children. So hiding the diagnosis from them does no one any good.

for you to be able to understand your child and for the diagnosis to relate to the child because they understand, because they will enter school or they will enter the world and see that they are different in some form or another to other children. So hiding the diagnosis from them does no one any good.

for you to be able to understand your child and for the diagnosis to relate to the child because they understand, because they will enter school or they will enter the world and see that they are different in some form or another to other children. So hiding the diagnosis from them does no one any good.