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Adult Autism Testing and Support
Young Adults and Early Career Professionals / Georgetown, TX
Adulting is hard.
…and if you’re autistic, you’re playing the adulting game on the hardest difficulty.
Have you seen this meme on how to draw an owl? It’s an impossible jump from drawing circles to a detailed owl.
The jump from high school to college and the working world can feel just as impossible.
It’s not surprising many autistics are overwhelmed and burnt out - stuck in cycles of suffering and coping, leaving little time to make connections and pursue their true interests.
An autistic adult once told me her life feels like building a Lego set without instructions - impossible, even though you have all the right pieces!
As an adult on the spectrum, you may not feel like you have all the right pieces, let alone good instructions, to build a meaningful life.
The good news is: you can live well on the spectrum.
My name is Dr. Ryne Pulido, and I spend most of my day helping neurodivergents build their rich, full, and meaningful lives.
A good set of instructions tells you what pieces you have (and what you might need) and how to achieve an outcome.
I offer three key services to help identify the pieces you have, what you might need to get, and step-by-step instructions on how to achieve your goals.
A comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation gives you more than a label. My evaluation will identify your strengths (the pieces you have) and weaknesses (the pieces you need). This will help us develop a unique set of instructions to build the life you want.
Social and executive function skill coaching will upgrade your skills to win more at the adulting game - find friends to connect with, get organized, and make more time for what matters to you. While practice and determination are required, the skills are easy to learn and effective.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help if you have the social and executive skills, but emotional pain, sensory overload, intrusive thoughts, and procrastination are getting in the way of pursuing your goals. I will teach you skills to handle the difficult emotional stuff while moving toward the life you want.
Comprehensive Neuropsychological Evaluation
From $2700
(or $135/mo for 24 mo with your CareCredit credit card*)
The comprehensive evaluation evaluates autism and its most common co-occurring problems, such as ADHD, dyslexia, depression, and anxiety. This evaluation uses a mix of traditional and neuroaffirming measures, such as the ADOS-2 and MIGDAS-2, respectively.
Traditional measures are often required to access services through gate-keeping agencies, such as health insurance, public schools and universities, government-based services, and work accommodations.
*This price is available with the 24-month 17.90% APR Financing through CareCredit.
A 6-month No Interest Promo Financing is also available.
How It Works
Step 1.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation or contact me using the form below. We will briefly discuss your challenges and goals and my services during our conversation.
Step 2.
If you decide to proceed, my friendly staff will contact you to schedule an intake appointment and complete the initial paperwork.
Step 4.
At our intake appointment, we will develop a plan based on an in-depth 90-minute interview covering challenges, developmental history, medical history, and educational history.
If you are interested in a comprehensive evaluation, we determine the price of that evaluation. If you need to, you can sign up for a flexible payment plan at CareCredit.
Step 5.
Jump right into learning skills in coaching or therapy. While everyone is different, most clients see progress in 4-12 sessions.
OR
Complete the neuropsychological evaluation, attend the strategy planning feedback session to discuss diagnoses and recommendations, and receive the report, which can be used to access support. Use your three free support sessions for additional strategy planning sessions or brief counseling.
Are you ready to start building the life you want?
or fill out the form below to contact me today and I will reply via email in up to 72 hours.
Important things to know about autism.
What is autism?
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder involving difficulties with social communication, sensory sensitivities, social struggles, unusual interests, and unusual and repetitive behaviors.
Some Common Autism Signs
Autistics tend to talk passionately about specific topics and not engage in small talk.
Non-autistics use body language to provide information, especially information difficult to describe in words. Autistics find social interactions stressful, and their “body language” is used to regulate that stress. These behaviors might include looking away, hand flapping, excessive fidgeting with materials, or appearing bored.
Unfortunately, due to these differences in communication and social interaction, autistics tend to be rejected by non-autistic peers. Autistic behaviors might come off as blunt, rude, and aloof to non-autistic.
The non-autistic world is stressful and overwhelming for autistics. One of my teenage clients described the world as “full of hellfire.” Thus, many autistics do not enjoy exploring the hellfire world. Instead, they find comfort and security in routines and what is familiar. Watching the same TV shows, playing the same games, having the same conversations, and even taking the same route to school helps them avoid the hellfire.
Neurodivergence is about more than ADHD and autism.
Kassiane Asasumasu, an American autism rights advocate, coined the term neurodivergent.
When your nervous system diverges significantly from the “general population” in some way, you are considered neurodivergent.
This means folks with psychiatric diagnoses, neurological disorders, and brain injuries are neurodivergent. People with learning disabilities, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s are also neurodivergent, for example. Neurodivergence can refer to people who have delays, such as someone with Down Syndrome, and disorders, such as someone with schizophrenia.
Autism is a different type of nervous system.
Autism is more than specific behavioral problems, such as poor eye contact and conversations. Autistics have a different type of nervous system.
About 2% of the population is autistic. That means the world is created by non-autistics for non-autistics. Autistics suffer from the mismatch between their brain and the non-autistic world. This mismatch is what creates the “disorder.”
Two percent does not sound like much, but 2% means over 6 million Americans and over 600,000 Texans are autistic are suffering from the social and sensory overload of living in a non-autistic world.
What is Neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity is a term typically attributed to Australian Sociology by Judy Singer.
Human nervous systems differ significantly from person to person. Consequently, individuals react to situations, relationships, thoughts, feelings, sensations, and urges in a variety of ways.