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SLT📍Independent Practitioner 📍 SI Practitioner📍Co-chair @uksltpride & @ndasltcen📍Late Discovered AuDHD 📍 find me on Instagram @neurodivergent_advocacy
Feb 19, 2023 16 tweets 8 min read
TW: autism & suicide

Since seeing Gem (Neurodivergent_researcher on FB & IG) post this earlier my busy brain has consistently bought me back round to reflecting on the role Speech & Language Therapy has in building protective factors for ND people.

1/14 I can’t speak to the experiences of people who have suicidal ideation, because it hasn’t been my lived experience. I can however, empathise & understand how ND trauma, flying under the radar for most of your life & neurotypical expectations contribute to anxiety, depression..2/14