“I don’t know how long you can take from the audience, nor how many obstacles you can put on me,” explains Jokin Pedreño. Because he believed he could be absentee, he decided to do it on his own and from the private: “It’s faster and he thought he wouldn’t be so stigmatizing.” However, he knows that economic resources can be “difficult”. He later learned that Gautena, an association of families of autistic people, offers a diagnostic service.
When he began to relate to the psychologist, he came to the first suspicion: “When autism is quite typical, if it is not diagnosed as a child, it is usual that in adulthood you discover that you are autistic by another situation, as in depression.”
Also, when I was with a friend who was sad, he told him that he was equally autistic: “I remember my friend was very sad and everyone said he was going to show up, but I only saw that he was sad when he was with the blanket in bed and didn’t want to talk to anyone.” He adds that in Tiktoke he had many videos of the autistic and that in many of them he felt identified.
"I understand why the psychologist tells me there's no need to put labels, classify them and fall into stereotypes, but sometimes labels are needed."
He thought he could be autistic, he decided to talk to the psychologist, but he didn't get content with that program. Despite being “very comfortable” with the psychologist, “it often said that you don’t have to tag,” and for the psychologist being autistic was another label: “I understand why he says: because we can qualify and fall into stereotypes, but sometimes they are necessary.”
The psychologist asked her why she believed: “I made her a seventeen page text.” But it didn’t matter: “He said, ‘I’m surprised to think you have a problem.’ Who said I have a problem?” An autistic friend told him that it is common to reject the topic: “Therapies must always adapt to people, for more for a neurodibertic person.” He adds that for those who read as women it is “more difficult” to get the diagnosis.
As the other sessions did not discuss the issue with the psychologist, he decided to break the relationship: “Maybe I wasn’t autistic, but I had to know.” So he goes to an Oreta neuropsychologist, where he does tests and interviews. “The psychologist was Navarro, and we did everything in Basque, but he told me that the tests were done in Spanish,” he said.
Diagnosis
After the tests they gave him a diagnosis: “Suddenly my life and my behavior made sense, and knowing that I am autistic helped me name things and behaviors.” He adds that it has helped him feel part of a community: “Now I know there are more people like me.”
Although he has helped him receive diagnoses, he believes he can sometimes go against it: “Like saying that autism is a pathological disorder, it is said that it is not a confusion, but an identity. That’s why I talk about the diagnosis.” He believes that the issue has been addressed “little”.
However, he stressed that the system itself guides them: “I have learned to solve my problems approximately or to survive as a cow. But others will need a diagnosis, and for that, unfortunately, you need public support. In the case of children it is clear.”
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