Interesting Links for 10-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Autistic women more likely to suffer severe menopause yet struggle to access care

(tags:autism menstruation healthcare )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Why am I not surprised?

This is the woman who was told she didn't need the help of an endocrinologist because of the sort of woman she is by a male GP............

It took a change of GP (to a female GP) to fix that one!

[conuly]

As a reminder to everybody reading the article, UK learning disabilities != USA learning disabilities. I don't know why we have this weird terminology mismatch.

[andrewducker]

Because ontology and terminology are cultural?

[bens_dad]

I didn't realise this. Can you point me to more information ?

[conuly]

The UK term covers intellectual disability.

In the USA, the term specifically does not include intellectual disability.

[haggis]

What is the difference between the two usages?

[conuly]

In the US the term mostly means what the UK seems to mean by the term “learning difference” - adhd, dyslexia, etc. In the UK it seems to mean “intellectual disability”. I wouldn’t refer to a person with Down syndrome as being learning disabled, for example.

(And in law, it’s explicit that you can’t be diagnosed with a learning disability in the US, for the purpose of academic assistance, if you have an IQ under a certain limit. This limit is higher than the threshold for assistance due to intellectual disability. Yes, that’s as bad as it sounds for kids who fall in that gap.)