Stephanie Beilin

That is a neurological condition that people really don't understand. I'm a social worker, you know, clinical social worker. I've had a wonderful career for so many years. This is something that I've had to become familiar with myself. I think that even clinical training has to focus more on those individuals with serious mental illness and autism.

That is a neurological condition that people really don't understand. I'm a social worker, you know, clinical social worker. I've had a wonderful career for so many years. This is something that I've had to become familiar with myself. I think that even clinical training has to focus more on those individuals with serious mental illness and autism.

That is a neurological condition that people really don't understand. I'm a social worker, you know, clinical social worker. I've had a wonderful career for so many years. This is something that I've had to become familiar with myself. I think that even clinical training has to focus more on those individuals with serious mental illness and autism.

and not more like the classic anxiety and depression and situational stress sort of thing. We need to be better trained and educate others around this.

and not more like the classic anxiety and depression and situational stress sort of thing. We need to be better trained and educate others around this.

and not more like the classic anxiety and depression and situational stress sort of thing. We need to be better trained and educate others around this.

I wholeheartedly agree with you for sure. I think that, you know, I mean, children are being diagnosed at record breaking numbers with autism. I mean, you know, when I was growing up in the 50s, 60s and 70s, I maybe knew one person that struggled with communication skills. Now, you know, having, you know, autism and someone being nonverbal is not unusual at all.

I wholeheartedly agree with you for sure. I think that, you know, I mean, children are being diagnosed at record breaking numbers with autism. I mean, you know, when I was growing up in the 50s, 60s and 70s, I maybe knew one person that struggled with communication skills. Now, you know, having, you know, autism and someone being nonverbal is not unusual at all.

I wholeheartedly agree with you for sure. I think that, you know, I mean, children are being diagnosed at record breaking numbers with autism. I mean, you know, when I was growing up in the 50s, 60s and 70s, I maybe knew one person that struggled with communication skills. Now, you know, having, you know, autism and someone being nonverbal is not unusual at all.

And families having to learn sign language to communicate with their loved one. And also, I do want to say medication is not easy. As much as psychiatry is a science and neurobiology is a science, finding the right balance of medication has, you know, from what I have observed in my own family, has been less than ideal. There are side effects, there's weight gains, sort of like mental fogginess.

And families having to learn sign language to communicate with their loved one. And also, I do want to say medication is not easy. As much as psychiatry is a science and neurobiology is a science, finding the right balance of medication has, you know, from what I have observed in my own family, has been less than ideal. There are side effects, there's weight gains, sort of like mental fogginess.

And families having to learn sign language to communicate with their loved one. And also, I do want to say medication is not easy. As much as psychiatry is a science and neurobiology is a science, finding the right balance of medication has, you know, from what I have observed in my own family, has been less than ideal. There are side effects, there's weight gains, sort of like mental fogginess.

There's a whole host of symptoms connected with psychotropic medication. I think that from what I've observed, you know, once someone accepts their condition, which, you know, in my son's case has taken close to nine years, nine years of a lot of up and down, you know, during a very pivotal time of his life, he seems to really get that now and look back and say, what was I thinking?

There's a whole host of symptoms connected with psychotropic medication. I think that from what I've observed, you know, once someone accepts their condition, which, you know, in my son's case has taken close to nine years, nine years of a lot of up and down, you know, during a very pivotal time of his life, he seems to really get that now and look back and say, what was I thinking?

There's a whole host of symptoms connected with psychotropic medication. I think that from what I've observed, you know, once someone accepts their condition, which, you know, in my son's case has taken close to nine years, nine years of a lot of up and down, you know, during a very pivotal time of his life, he seems to really get that now and look back and say, what was I thinking?

Like, what was I thinking? What motivated me to get into these confrontations He never had a discipline report in high school, never had an incident, incident free. And all of a sudden he had to integrate like, you know, who was this person? And that's a pretty scary thing. I mean, that's hard to understand within oneself.

Like, what was I thinking? What motivated me to get into these confrontations He never had a discipline report in high school, never had an incident, incident free. And all of a sudden he had to integrate like, you know, who was this person? And that's a pretty scary thing. I mean, that's hard to understand within oneself.

Like, what was I thinking? What motivated me to get into these confrontations He never had a discipline report in high school, never had an incident, incident free. And all of a sudden he had to integrate like, you know, who was this person? And that's a pretty scary thing. I mean, that's hard to understand within oneself.

It just doesn't happen by you get on medication because the risk of getting off medication is so high. It's almost as if in a sad way, sometimes individuals have to go through all this pain and difficulty to accept their health condition.

It just doesn't happen by you get on medication because the risk of getting off medication is so high. It's almost as if in a sad way, sometimes individuals have to go through all this pain and difficulty to accept their health condition.