Black and latinx children are getting diagnosed as autistic less often than their white peers, due to many factors, including doctors’ own hesitance. These communities are also at a greater risk of misdiagnosis based on racist biases.
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Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism
From September 24 2017
Yes, this is hyperfocus and inertia. Inertia is a type of executive dysfunction where you are stuck doing whatever you’re doing until something happens to jolt you out of it so you can do something different. It gets its name from Newton’s first law of physics, which states that an object at rest will remain at rest, or an object moving in a straight line will continue in that straight line unless it is acted upon by an external force. (Source) Hyperfocus is the part where you’re focused on something and not really aware of anything else.
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