There was a scandal in LT that people with autism, especially ones with Asperger’s, have had their diagnosis ‘magically disappeared’ in the med records after 18. And a study showed that, while there were registered thousands of autistic children under the age of 18 in Lithuania, only 17 or so autistic adults were registered in the whole country.
I reviewed the newsletters, the psychiatrists cite the ‘Soviet legacy’. Grunya Sukhareva did some research on autism, but there was probably not enough made research into adults. Besides, mental health in the USSR had a very shady history.
There was a scandal in LT that people with autism, especially ones with Asperger’s, have had their diagnosis ‘magically disappeared’ in the med records after 18. And a study showed that, while there were registered thousands of autistic children under the age of 18 in Lithuania, only 17 or so autistic adults were registered in the whole country.
That’s… something. Did anyone figure out why?
I reviewed the newsletters, the psychiatrists cite the ‘Soviet legacy’. Grunya Sukhareva did some research on autism, but there was probably not enough made research into adults. Besides, mental health in the USSR had a very shady history.