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Where the missing autistic adults went

2015-12-09 21:18:36.973683+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The missing generation

Left to languish in psychiatric institutions or drugged for disorders they never had, many older adults with autism were neglected or forgotten for decades. Efforts to help them are finally underway.

How diagnoses of autism are giving developmentally disabled adults who had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and manic depression or bipolar disorder new opportunities and possibilities, and reducing the cost of caring for them.

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