2023-11-26 08:50:00
The people that They live on the autism spectrum (ASD) They experience additional barriers and even discrimination or stigma in their respective work environments. Within a profession like Medicineused to dealing with all kinds of patientsthere are also those who put on other ‘glasses’ when looking at autism when it is a partner who has this condition.
As Anesthesia resident and under the user @TEA_Anesthesiologist on X (former Twitter), a MIR has decided to capture his daily life on this platform without revealing his identity, since prefers to remain anonymous in front of her classmates due to a double fear: “That they treat me as if I were inferior to others for the mere fact of claim accommodations; or that they think that I am some kind of Shawn Murphy – from the series ‘The Good Doctor’ – and that I am a genius or something like that,” he maintains.
“I’m afraid that they’ll treat me like I’m inferior for demanding accommodations (…) or that they’ll think I’m a genius or something like that.”
This resident does notice differences, however, when it comes to socialize with other professionals in non-work environments, since the leisure plans they make are for him a “great sensory overload” and a physical and mental exhaustion many times unaffordable. “This exclusion further fosters the feeling of strangeness or ‘aliens’ that many people on the spectrum already have,” he says.
Putting on what he himself calls “the neurotypical suit” in front of his colleagues is for him the most complicated, since the effort it takes for him to communicate with them makes him “practically unable to perform daily tasks when leaving the hospital,” and It therefore conditions your personal life, as well as your professional life.
Unpleasant experiences being a doctor with autism
In fact, the most unpleasant experiences that he has experienced in the workplace have taken place when making this fictitious clothing from scratch and introduce yourself to a new medical team in the external rotations. It is also especially complicated for him, in these cases, adapt to the routine of a new hospital: schedules, hallways, tasks, sheets… As well as specialties different from yours: “Overwhelms my anxiety levels resulting in frequent overloads, more clumsiness in manual techniques and more exhaustion when leaving the hospital, not being able to rest,” he says.
He dealing with patients It is more ‘simple’, as far as possible. Fundamentally because chose the specialty of Anesthesia for offering you the possibility of having less contact with them, but at the same time leave the laboratory and experience other work environments. Looking to the future, he believes that it is the ideal branch “so that professional practice might be sustainable over time.”
Accommodations for clinicians with ASD
Those who are aware of his condition in the center have not offered him the adaptations he considers necessary. When she communicated this, the only response she received was, as she remembers, the following: “If you have come this far, you can achieve whatever you want.” Since that moment he has not spoken regarding this issue at work: “I said it with the belief that the Occupational Health Service served to establish adaptations for professionals and that they would have some type of protocol, but that was not the case,” he recalls.
“I believed that the Occupational Health Service served to establish adaptations for professionals and that they would have some protocol, but that was not the case.”
He himself has in mind some measures that he misses and that would make his work easier. One of them is reduce the number of guardsor at least choose the professional with TEA the possibility of doing so, due to the additional wear and tear that these days entail for him. It also considers that the Service as a whole should “avoid confusing language and give orders clearly.” Furthermore, he proposes that the hospitals themselves provide “a space to go to when we need to regulate ourselves.”
Day to day as a doctor with ASD
Its main objective on the Internet is to show the additional difficulties that autism adds to your job in a realistic way, without “falling into victimhood” or disguising reality. However, she has mixed feelings regarding the impact of her publications, since on the one hand she receives messages from mothers of autistic children who understand their own children better thanks to her content and “are hopeful that their children can find a job and be independent”, something that he explains makes him feel enormous pride.
But analyzing these displays of affection in perspective, he fears generating ‘false expectations’ for his followers given that “each person on the spectrum is a world and unique in its own way. Like neurotypicals, unfortunately not everyone is going to have a job or an independent life, and if they have a job, they do not have to have the same standard of living.” He further adds that “a person’s neurotype It does not mark your intelligence or your success in life“.
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