It’s understandable, but frustrating, that I’ll often be talked down to by non family members IRL, be they health professionals or not. They see my daughter helping me quite a lot, and jump to the conclusion that I’m not all there. Very few of them,including health professionals, know about adaptive functioning and autism - how it can be much < IQ/level of intelligence.
It’s a situation made worse by the fact that for more than quite small distances I’m in a wheelchair. That can result in being spoken to in a slow,and overly accentuated, manner-again as though I’m not all there.
A lot of people don’t know how to converse with others outside of their age groups. I don’t have this problem though. I don’t assume, I converse with whoever wants to. I’m sorry you are treated this way. It must be so disrespectful towards you. Happy holidays. I hope you get to spend a lot of time with loved ones.
Thank you. Went to my daughter’s yesterday for a few hours. It was good seeing the great grandchildren open some of their presents. I’ll be having Christmas dinner there today. My oldest granddaughter is doing the cooking. She has the potential to be a very good cook.
That does sound frustrating @firemonkey. I’m not so sure that it is understandable though, especially for people in the healthcare profession that presumably regularly interact with older people, people in wheelchairs, etc. They must know that being an older adult or needing a mobility aid doesn’t mean the person has cognitive issues. It is disrespectful and dehumanizing to talk down to someone.
hope it’s a nice day