Megan Prescott is greatest recognized for starring as Katie Finch within the British sequence Skins in Seasons 3 and 4. 13 years after the present ended, the star is opening up about being identified with autism.
“In December 2021 I used to be identified as autistic. Since then I’ve been slowly getting comfy with explaining this to individuals I do know, however I’ve been nervous to say something on right here about it due to how badly misunderstood autism in ladies is by most individuals,” she wrote on Instagram. “There are nonetheless members of my household that I haven’t advised about my prognosis as a result of I do know the response might be fairly upsetting.”
Prescott says that ladies identified with ADHD are “very misunderstood.”
“After I’ve advised individuals I’m autistic, the response I’ve bought most frequently is one thing alongside the strains of ‘Effectively everybody’s on the spectrum a bit’ – which, though it is perhaps well-intentioned, is a fairly shit response to somebody telling you they’re autistic,” she added. “Firstly, that response sounds such as you’re making an attempt to console the autistic individual by saying ‘don’t really feel dangerous, we’re all a bit like that’ which means that not solely is autism a foul factor, but it surely additionally utterly invalidates the struggles that that autistic individual could have skilled all through their life.”
Prescott feels that some individuals downplay her prognosis as if it’s “not an enormous deal as a result of it’s one thing everybody experiences and also you’re simply not pretty much as good at coping with it.” The previous Skins star makes the argument that giving little significance to the prognosis is “why charges of tension and despair in autistic persons are so big.”
She continued, “Autism additionally isn’t a ‘superpower.’ We stay in a society that’s constructed from the bottom up for individuals with neurotypical brains. I do imagine that autism COULD be a ‘present’ IF the world we lived in was made accessible to neurodiverse individuals. Nevertheless, nearly the entire constructions, programs and social ‘guidelines’ that we stay by have been created by and for neurotypical individuals and don’t permit for the huge variations in how neurodiverse minds work.”
Prescott needs there have been “extra conversations about autism in ladies” as she explains that almost all “of the diagnostic standards concerned in autism evaluation relies on analysis carried out solely on males.”
“In true me model, I’ll after all be speaking about this a LOT; partly as a result of I’m extremely self-involved, but additionally as a result of there’s such a lack of knowledge and assist on the market for autistic ladies and I wish to at the very least add my two cents value,” she ends.