Penny Williams
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1,352 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard 11 Nov
Penny Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Please, please, please find reputable sources and learn the facts about it.
Because it really is different from
public opinion and what everybody fears about it.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yes, the diagnostic statistical manual that we had prior to twenty fifteen, which was the fourth edition.
said that you could not have both diagnoses, that physicians should not be diagnosing ADHD and autism in the same patient.
when the DSM five came out in twenty fifteen, that quantification was was removed.
So now physicians can diagnose both in the same patient and I'm seeing so much more of it.
Um of course this was not something I knew before it was part of our story and I had to learn more about it, but once he hit about age ten
Which was four years after diagnosis, I started to recognize some pieces that weren't fitting with ADHD.
some really intense social
issues, um some really intense um
reading other people, not just body language, but tone of voice and intention.
He he had no way of interpreting intention from others at all.
Because he's a very concrete thinker, very black and white.
So everything is one hundred percent literal.
And so by the time he hit sixth grade,
And boys are mean to each other to show you that they like you and they want to be your friend.
You know, he was having meltdowns about this stuff every day.
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