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You're Never Too Old To Need Assistance · The Autistic Mile

Jim Gaffney: So For psychiatric medication, the statistics that I came across are saying that for autistic adults about roughly almost fifty-five percent of autistic adults use some kind of psychiatric medication. and that's in contrast to eighteen percent for neurotypical people. So that's over thirty six percent difference between autistic people and neurotypical individuals for the use of psychiatric medication. So that is a real eye opener. I expect it to be high. I didn't expect it to be that high. and again these are just numbers based on studies, but That's a pretty eye opening statistic.