{"id":18056,"date":"2024-03-18T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/?p=18056"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:00:49","slug":"living-with-autism-in-dubai-how-expats-on-the-spectrum-go-through-their-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/living-with-autism-in-dubai-how-expats-on-the-spectrum-go-through-their-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with autism in Dubai: How expats on the spectrum go through their life"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”18057″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Autism diagnoses range across levels, and each individual on the spectrum is unique<\/p>\n

Dubai: Living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), no matter where you fall on the spectrum, gets that much harder if you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Whether one falls on the \u2018high-functioning\u2019 level or the non-verbal non-responsive level of the spectrum, diagnosis is the first step to feeling like you belong \u2013 that you are not alone, as these Dubai residents can attest.<\/p>\n

I have always felt different, I have always wondered why I felt out-of-place, like I didn\u2019t belong.<\/p>\n

– Cosmina, Dubai expat with ASD<\/p>\n

Source: Gulf News<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”18057″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Autism diagnoses range across levels, and each individual on the spectrum is unique<\/p>\n

Dubai: Living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), no matter where you fall on the spectrum, gets that much harder if you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Whether one falls on the \u2018high-functioning\u2019 level or the non-verbal non-responsive level of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":18057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,43,28,18],"tags":[92,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-18056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-english-press","9":"category-event-news","10":"category-limitless-newsletter","11":"category-news","12":"tag-limitless-january-february","13":"tag-limitless-highlights"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33598,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056\/revisions\/33598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessabilitiesexpo.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}