So I lurk this sub but never really post or comment, but I really need to get this out somewhere because it's really gotten me down.
So some background. In the UK we have GPs (family doctors) and over the last few years GP practices have been expanding their services to try and cover things like preventative care, health monitoring for hard to reach patients, and general lifestyle improvements to promote health and wellbeing.
I'm a Social Prescriber, so my job is to help people engage with their communities (think tackling elderly loneliness for example) and making changes to their lifestyles that improve health and wellbeing. Part of my job is to also work with community providers to find gaps in support services and try to plug those gaps.
So in my area there is no support for adults with ADHD and/or autism. So I decided to set up a simple support group to help with this at one of our community centres. I was put in touch with a local autism advocate and we started planning the set up of the group. The plan was always to include people with ADHD.
Today she sent me the flyer she made for the group as we now have a date set for it to begin. And it was for autism only. So I replied and asked why ADHD hadn't been included.
Her response was that she only wanted "stable" people in the group, and that people with ADHD who wanted to join needed to be vetted first. By me.
I am absolutely raging. I am sat in work unable to express how angry I am and how disgusting I find her comments. It's completely discriminatory and not at all what we agreed. It also offended me personally and I've never ever had a comment like that from anyone. Neurotypical or not.
I've forwarded the comments to my PCN manager and have asked what I should do as I can't send my patients there now for fear they might not be treated well. And it means the gap I was trying to fill is still open so I feel as though I did all the work arranging this for nothing.
Anyway, that's my rant. I never ever thought I'd hear something like that from an ND person and I'm actually disgusted and I can't shake it.