Do you use prescription drugs for your ASD?

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I voted anti-anxiety. I take diazepam to control my anxiety symptoms.

All SSRIs (and one SNRI) that I've taken made me more mentally ill so I gave up on anti-depressants (the doctors were happy to carry on trying different ones but I was tired of feeling like a lab rat).

My psychiatrist suggested I might like to try an off-label prescription of risperidone (an atypical anti-psychotic) (for which there is some evidence that it controls some symptoms in autistic patients) but I refused because of the possibility of extrapyramidal (basically Parkinson's disease-like) side-effects and because I didn't want to end up in a situation where I was dependent on anti-psychotics to function; I think I can achieve a better end-game outcome without.