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@Haui @whoisearth
I don't understand your "It really comes off confrontational." What is it in your words.
I had one visit with a pcp, and then read his session notes because I could. It was obvious that he really didn't get what I said and instead reported that I was flakey, rather than consider that there was more depth than he could recognize. I wrote to correct him. I may have to teach him that diferent is not bad or dumb or a disability, it can also be a superpower. Just because I stim behind my back, doesnt mean that I can't understand particle physics and ask hard questions, or sometime overload and need to leave the room. Medicine is dumb.
You are right, yo don't want to fight me. As a camo I'm not exactly sure that my feelings are valid, even though my memories are sharp, and I know what I did would piss some people off. I mean, the past is the past and i'm not denying it happened. The reframe is comfort. Every day, millions of 'Oh yeah's.
I'm working on figure it out.
I‘m having a hard time finding the source of the miscommunication here but I get you. It is insanely frustrating to talk with the uninitiated about autism in adults.
My therapist stepped on my feelings so many times I can’t count them. „Do you really think you‘re autistic?“ well, the diagnosis says so and I also stimm a lot, have selective mutism, lack facial expressions, don’t understand body language, cant read or remember faces, am mindblind and countless other things I can’t think of rn.
I‘m not stupid either but it turns out I‘m very easy to take advantage of if I trust someone. Bad combination.