Assessment Blog
The following are a collection of diagnostic-related writings about autistic adults. Some are for healthcare workers and some are more casual in tone and give a deeper look at NDpsych’s philosophy and experiences with neurodivergence. Updated sporadically.
High-Masking Autistic Adults: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals - Autism presents uniquely in each individual, which often complicates adult diagnosis. This is especially true for high-masking…
Patterns in Late-diagnosed Autistic Assessments - While everyone’s unique, struggling for decades before realizing you’re ND tends to have several fairly common effects on adults…
Differential Diagnosis - A differential diagnosis is the process of analyzing a client information to distinguish between various possible diagnoses…
Waitlists and Diagnosing Autism in Adults in Canada - Canadian adults waiting for a public autism assessment have to wait for years, and private assessments are too expensive…
Menopause, Menstruation, and Autism - Menopause in autistic people is a very under-studied area, though in recent years some research has…
Non-Stereotypical Presentations of Autism in Late-diagnosed Adults - Most healthcare practitioners are “behind the times” compared to the modern understanding of autism…