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The parent has spent many years navigating health, education, and support services for their child, who is neurodivergent. This story represents a case of diagnostic overshadowing.

She attended the fracture clinic five to six weeks later, where the casts were removed. The doctor reviewed her X-ray and told Rose that her bones had healed and she was to be discharged.
Except, she hadn’t had an X-ray, the doctor was looking at someone else’s x-ray.

Until High School, they had been a pretty good student. A few weeks into the new school year, the child was ill at unusual times. When their parent asked what the matter was, they were told that they had wet themselves and was too embarrassed to tell anyone and so had sat in wet clothes for the rest of the school day. Their parent says that rather than deal with the behaviour associated with the toilets, the school took them away.