GumbyLives
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I think that's the worst - therapists who only know all the "theories" and such, but don't know our real lives or needs.
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Sparkstorm
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Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one.
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Sparkstorm
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Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one.
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GumbyLives
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| Sparkstorm wrote: | | Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one. |
And that's one of the biggest problems. They know us like a scientist knows a bug - they have theories and experiments and so on. But they have no real life experience to mentor or teach us with.
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raylit20
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I was questioning my psych teacher, who is currently studying to be a psychiatrist, about Autism as we were on a related child development chapter in the class. He mentioned that he hoped science finds a cure soon, and that scientists have found mercury and chemicals in vaccines to be the cause of most Autism.
All I could respond with was an awkward "Oh". |
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GumbyLives
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| raylit20 wrote: | I was questioning my psych teacher, who is currently studying to be a psychiatrist, about Autism as we were on a related child development chapter in the class. He mentioned that he hoped science finds a cure soon, and that scientists have found mercury and chemicals in vaccines to be the cause of most Autism.
All I could respond with was an awkward "Oh". |
Nice - NOT.
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westernwild
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Sounds like a so-called "therapist" influenced by that harmful hate group FAAAS, which has done great damage all around, to aspies, to society's image of aspies, to the "training" of therapists, doctors, attorneys and social workers, said "training" involving indoctrination with FAAAS's special brand of hate and misinformation concerning AS. Most therapists really know and understand little about AS, and what they do think they know and understand they quite often got from either FAAAS or a similar group.
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Caesaran
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject: Hah! |
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| Sparkstorm wrote: | | Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one. |
Planning to be a therapist. I would love to work with young aspergians and such in part because i know their problems. |
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JuggaspieZ2k
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Sparkstorm wrote: | | Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one. |
They should all be aspies, IMO.
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Dp0p
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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cant be bothered reading all the comments but when you say 'therepist' do you mean psychologist or psychiatrist? or some other form of theropist? correct me if im wrong but plain theropist isnt a proffenion you cant get a degree in just theropy, although you can get a degree in physical theropy, music theropy ect.
its like saying psysosist sure to the ignorant physosist is a proffession but it isnt, qauntum physosist is, theoretical physosist is but not just physoist
yes i know my spelling is horrible but i am trying to hide the screen from my teacher right now so i cant see my keyboard or screen very well |
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Dp0p
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: Hah! |
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| Caesaran wrote: | | Sparkstorm wrote: | | Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one. |
Planning to be a therapist. I would love to work with young aspergians and such in part because i know their problems. |
haha same bro and i plan to look for a 'cure' for all forms of asbhergers and ADD and ADHD, (when i say cure i mean to only fix the issues, the weaknesses not the strengths like the social development.)
again horrible spelling i know |
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Atomsk
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:21 am Post subject: Re: Therapists who are ignorant about AS [rant] |
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| Sparkstorm wrote: | | I often wonder why we're the ones who are supposedly disabled. |
I never wonder why we're the disabled ones when I have overloads, or when I have to do compulsive movements, stims, etc. I never questioned it when I was a kid and I had to literally do the same thing over and over and over again for hours, even though I didn't want to do it at all. |
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Dp0p
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:39 am Post subject: Re: Therapists who are ignorant about AS [rant] |
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| Atomsk wrote: | | Sparkstorm wrote: | | I often wonder why we're the ones who are supposedly disabled. |
I never wonder why we're the disabled ones when I have overloads, or when I have to do compulsive movements, stims, etc. I never questioned it when I was a kid and I had to literally do the same thing over and over and over again for hours, even though I didn't want to do it at all. |
i was thinking the same thing but i didnt want to kill the discusion by posting three times in a row haha.
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GumbyLives
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I agree about the overloads and such being disabling at times. And the social stuff can really screw us up. But the aim should be to keep us who we individually are, while helping us learn to manage our overloads (which can be done in all but the worst cases) and learn social skills. The aim too often is simply to break off our sharp edges so we are compatible in a theoretical NT world. I don't want to be an NT. I want to be a happy, fulfilled aspie.
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CuriousKitten
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Therapists who are ignorant about AS [rant] |
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| hanyo wrote: | | GumbyLives wrote: | | The other day I had to take a class for work, and one of the presenters (a therapist) made some really stupid remarks about people with aspergers. For example: "What would aspergers people do if there were no computer games? Hahaha" I tried to point out the obvious, but he didn't get it. |
I don't even get what that means. I didn't even get online until I was 23 and didn't get my first computer until I was 33. |
similar here. I was the "wrong" side of 30 when I got my first nintendo -- had to buy books for the Mario that came with it and never did finish it. I didn't get my hands on real computers until '98.
IMHO: I don't buy the claims that 90% or so of Aspies are unemployed/underemployed. I suspect it's of known Aspies/Auties, and what is know is only the tip of the iceburg. a study in South Korea indicated a 1 in 38 prevalence. I doubt South Korea is special, so if that holds true for us and we are still only detecting 1 in 88, where are the rest? flying under the radar undetected!
http://news.yale.edu/2011/05/09/prevalence-autism-south-korea-estimated-1-38-children |
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