An autistic woman asked to describe the source of her pain has no idea where to begin, it has been reported.
Miya Wilkes, 29, called an ambulance after suffering a fall at home. When paramedic Avery Mann, 39, arrived on the scene and asked her to describe where it hurt, Wilkes gave a heavy sigh before listing off every source of physical, emotional and psychic pain in her life to date.
Wilkes reportedly said: “I was a ‘gifted’ child at school, and everyone thought I’d go really far, but the past 10 or so years have been a constant cycle of crashing and burning. I don’t know how to maintain friendships, and I seem to exclusively date people who are terrible for me. I can’t relax without feeling guilty about how I haven’t achieved anything tangible in life, and the only way for me to avoid sensory discomfort is to dress like an off-duty Adam Sandler all year round.”
Wilkes continued: “And to top it all off, I really struggled to make that phone call to emergency services! Why don’t you lot have an email option?”
Mann commented: “I went over expecting to treat a broken leg, but came away raging at a broken society.”
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