Privilege

....and then there are always issues of privilege that impact a medical diagnosis and the treatment of that diagnosis. If you don't have money, you either don't get the diagnosis or the treatment. Or when you get the treatment, you make financial or emotional sacrifices that decrease your quality of living. 

Happiness at risk of being compromised.

...and then, of course, in America, embedded within our socioeconomic means are racial disparities that creep into autistic children's medical care.

To the caregivers who are strapped both financially and emotionally, America needs to do better by you.

(Please read this very brief article for more insight on vulnerable intersections between socioeconomic status and autism diagnosis and treatment, http://readingroom.mindspec.org/?page_id=4493)

April 19, 2016 (originally posted to Facebook)