Difficulties with mental health services

Autistic people often face difficulties when accessing mental health services, either due to not knowing they're autistic themselves and mental health providers not recognising it either, or because they face hurdles that are difficult to overcome since they are primarily designed for allistic patients.

Examples of these hurdles

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Dangers of unrecognised autism

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When autism is not recognized, the autistic person could end up with a misdiagnosis and be put on medications/therapies that do more harm than good. Common misdiagnoses seem to be Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder.