View past chats on this topic: March 12, 2017, April 1, 2018, October 13, 2019, and April 24, 2022.

Healthcare professionals here includes doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, etc—anyone you see for healthcare. #AutChat

Q1: What communication challenges have you run into with healthcare professionals? How have you tried handling them? #AutChat

Q2: What do you do before, during, and after appointments with healthcare professionals, to help communication go more smoothly? #AutChat

Q3: Have you ever had someone help you communicate with a healthcare professional? How did that go? #AutChat

Q4: Have you ever talked with your healthcare professionals about autism or another neurodivergence? If so, how did that go? #AutChat

Q5: Based on your experiences, is there any advice you’d give other autistic or neurodivergent people about how to make communication with healthcare professionals go more smoothly? #AutChat

Questions for this chat were written by @theoriesofminds with suggestions from @endeverstar.

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Version of these questions used for earlier chats:

Q1: What preparation do you do before an appointment, to help communication go more smoothly? #AutChat

Q2: During appointments, what communication challenges have you run into? How have you tried handling them? #AutChat

Q3: Have you ever had someone help you communicate with a healthcare provider? How did that go? #AutChat

Q4: What follow-up communication have you needed to do after appointments? How has that gone? #AutChat

Q5: Have you ever talked with your providers about autism? If so, how did that go? #AutChat

Questions for this #autchat were written by @theoriesofminds.