Chronic Illness and Autism: Believe you can do anything - The Life of Jacqueline City

Crohn's and Autism Awareness Advocate · Nov 26, 2022 · 1h 25m

In today's episode I am joined with Jacqueline who is Autistic, she was diagnosed 2 years ago she cried with Joy when she got her diagnosis. For the first part of the episode we talk about being Autistic, school life, and the difference between boys and girls in the spectrum. Girls and boys have different symptoms of Autism, and girls have found it harder for a diagnosis, from the 2000s to now a lot has changed and Autistic people are getting diagnosed in adulthood more frequent. Jacqueline talks about the process of her diagnosis and what it means to be autistic!

We move on to the topic of…