Latest / Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD / Autism and Depression in Girls

Transcript

Autism and Depression in Girls · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

• 0:00
  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
• 0:04
  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
• 0:07
  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
• 0:11
  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
• 0:19
  So let's have autism and depression in females, right?
• 0:22
  Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
• 0:24
  My name is Dan. I have autism and ADHD and I
• 0:26
  make weekly videos on this subject.
• 0:28
  It's my life's work and I want to help as many people as
• 0:30
  possible. Social and you're around here
• 0:31
  and you want to join me on this journey and get really like just
• 0:33
  pumped robot. Hit the subscribe button down
• 0:36
  below and follow me on the other social media platforms I have
• 0:38
  available now. Guys.
• 0:40
  Yeah, I wanted to do this deal because I feel like there's many
• 0:42
  components that there's so many. I wanted to do this for a long
• 0:45
  time. Now.
• 0:45
  If you're new to me and you don't know, I do have an Autism
• 0:47
  Life Act PDF book for free that you can get from autismhacks.net
• 0:51
  and you can go there right now and download the book.
• 0:52
  In terms of depression and girls on the autism spectrum, you
• 0:56
  know, for a long, long time, people didn't believe that girls
• 0:58
  on the autism spectrum insisted because all the research, all
• 1:01
  the diagnostic kind of tools and criteria were all done for
• 1:04
  males. This stemmed fact from, you
• 1:06
  know, 1942 where Hans Asperger and Leo O'Connell, which you're
• 1:08
  looking at boys. And then they were like there's
• 1:11
  a huge unrepresented kind of like mega deficit of females on
• 1:14
  the Austin spectrum. We never got diagnosed.
• 1:16
  You know, I was interviewing somebody in my podcast a couple
• 1:18
  of years ago who was saying that the mother was diagnosed with
• 1:20
  autism when she was 72. It's times like that.
• 1:22
  And you think, wow, you know, there's there's some differences
• 1:25
  here in how we can progress and move forward.
• 1:28
  So because of that, I feel like a lot of girls who do suffer
• 1:32
  from autism and mental health issues have a higher risk of
• 1:36
  actually having depression. Because if you have undiagnosed
• 1:38
  autism, then you are going to be forgotten about.
• 1:41
  You're not going to get the help, you're not going to get
• 1:43
  the support, you're not going to get the the network that you
• 1:45
  need. And so depression will creep in
• 1:47
  because you're looking for help and answers that you don't even
• 1:50
  know the answer to yourself. And I think that is a big, big
• 1:52
  struggle. Now the other thing that that
• 1:55
  comes into this is that when you then find out that you are
• 1:58
  autistic and you're female and then you hear what all the years
• 2:00
  that you were undiagnosed because they thought it was just
• 2:02
  males that could cause depressional episodes as well.
• 2:05
  Now depression is a mental health disorder, so there is
• 2:07
  help available for people with mental health issues.
• 2:10
  Now we'll get into another reason why you know the
• 2:12
  challenges in in in diagnosis and other things like that.
• 2:15
  But if you are suffering from any mental health issues
• 2:17
  including depression or anything like that, I highly recommend
• 2:20
  checking out talking to a therapist, using the app Better
• 2:23
  Help. Your better help is LinkedIn.
• 2:24
  The description down below. It is a online app.
• 2:27
  You can talk to a therapist through texting or phone or
• 2:29
  video. I've used it and within 2448
• 2:31
  hours they will match you up with somebody who's skilled in
• 2:33
  the area of whatever your needs app.
• 2:35
  It's ADHD or mental health issues or whatever.
• 2:37
  You can check out the link down below.
• 2:38
  Super awesome. I think it's amazing and it's a
• 2:40
  great access to people who don't like going out all the time to
• 2:43
  go see a therapist. Now.
• 2:44
  The challenges of the diagnosis stem from the fact that most of
• 2:47
  the training was done based on males and a lot of the doctors,
• 2:50
  a lot of practitioners, a lot of pediatricians, people who you
• 2:53
  think would have your your best interests at heart, which they
• 2:55
  do. They don't have the best
• 2:57
  training. And that training allowed for a
• 3:00
  deficit for girls to slip through the net.
• 3:02
  Because camouflaging or masking as it's called in the Austin
• 3:04
  community, is where girls will kind of have this pretence
• 3:08
  around them like a character. They'll play a character for the
• 3:10
  times that they feel really out of their death.
• 3:12
  It may be social situations or working whatever.
• 3:15
  And then to the camouflage they'll put on this mask that
• 3:17
  they will just kind of be happy and bubbly and going along with
• 3:19
  those things, even though inside they're having a really
• 3:20
  difficult time understanding it and and wanting to do it.
• 3:23
  Now what comes from that is when they come home and they can be
• 3:27
  themselves, they just completely release all that emotional
• 3:30
  tension and it's not good. And that release of emotion can
• 3:33
  then end up in in depression, which is something really sad
• 3:36
  because mental health services are probably at the Max limit at
• 3:40
  the moment thanks to things like COVID and stuff like that.
• 3:42
  But also if you had in late diagnosis, it's just a whole
• 3:45
  thing. So my advice is to stay strong.
• 3:48
  Don't worry if. You are suffering from.
• 3:49
  You know depression and you're only alternate spectrum.
• 3:51
  There is help available and I think that reaching out and
• 3:55
  talking to somebody is the best way forward.
• 3:56
  But I do know that there is a huge call for more support in
• 3:59
  this area. So if you want to leave your
• 4:02
  support and a comment down below, I think that'd be amazing
• 4:04
  and we could all support each other.
• 4:05
  OK guys, I got to go through a piece.
• 4:09
  Hey guys, thank you so much for checking out this podcast.
• 4:11
  Make sure you are subscribed because there are people
• 4:13
  listening right now who are not subscribed to this podcast.
• 4:16
  I can see you. Make sure you subscribe.
• 4:18
  OK guys. See you in the next one.
• 4:19
  Peace.