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No_YOU_get_over_it
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: "you can't be autistic, because ..." |
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What winners have you heard, from doctors or others?
This morning a doctor told me,
"It must be something else, maybe histrionic personality. You can't be autistic - you've had a normal life, you were married!"
So the fact that I got into and stayed in a horrible relationship - apparently typical for ASD women - and don't know how to push through the divorce and come out alive proves to an NT doctor that I don't need help.
Where's the sledge-hammer-through-own-skull smiley? They wonder why we often exhibit self-harming behavior?!
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intense
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Bad doctor, see another one who isn't so flippant about it.
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Danielismyname
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Did you say Asperger's or "autistic"?
Sometimes, professionals equate "autistic" to Autistic Disorder (HFA/LFA), which barring outliers, no one with such marries.
'Because you can talk [as an adult],' by someone who should really know better (this was for differentiating between Autism and Asperger's). |
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Lene
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| .. you care about what other people think of you. |
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Age1600
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i heard a funny one about why i was diagnosed with severe pddnos and not classic autism at first, because pddnos is a pdd and because i got my teeth in late, so i was pervasively delayed, so i couldnt be diagnosed with classic autism lol.
Sometimes doctors make me wonder if their really qualified enough hehehe
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aintnowreck
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"You can't be autistic; you have a job and a family".....
(sigh)
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tomboy4good
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...because you make great eye contact & you are too articulate." Um yeah...if only he had seen me in a "normal" situation!
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intense
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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You should have replied "you can't be a doctor you don't know what the hell you're talking about" 
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GodsGadfly
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"You can't be autistic because you're too good a father."
Coming from my mother, who otherwise tends to criticize my parenting (and *every* "personality fault" my parents have ever criticized me for is somehow connected to Asperger's) |
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tomboy4good
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| intense wrote: | | You should have replied "you can't be a doctor you don't know what the hell you're talking about" |
LOL Intense, I sure wish I would have thought about that come back at the time! That's a good one! However, as is typical for me, I usually don't think of a good response until some time at a later date, if at all! (My brain does an awesome job of locking up more often than not! Leaving me high & dry & dumb founded.)
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Confused-Fish
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| intense wrote: | | You should have replied "you can't be a doctor you don't know what the hell you're talking about" |
I've done that a few times, It doesn't help matters  |
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Jellybean
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My doctor told me, 'you can't have Aspergers because you had an emotional attachment to your granny...' This is my Granny who had died. I was severely depressed about her death and I was really upset by his comment.
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UndercoverAlien
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| Jellybean wrote: | | My doctor told me, 'you can't have Aspergers because you had an emotional attachment to your granny...' This is my Granny who had died. I was severely depressed about her death and I was really upset by his comment. |
so where not allowdto have emotions for people but whe do are able to have emotions for objects realistic  |
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CityAsylum
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The subject of my Asperger's came up only because, during a routine physical, I simply asked my doctor if he knew of anyone specializing in sensory integration issues:
"What do you mean, you have Asperger's?" (rolls eyes) "You don't have Asperger's - those people are retarded. I just don't know why you would want a label like that. Have you thought of seeing someone about your self-esteem issues?"
Yeah, I could go back and see the most recent psychiatrist to tell me I was an Aspie. 
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UndercoverAlien
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reschooling please sinds i dont whant medication for braindead patients
edit: all i hear is docters who say where retards whats going on in this world |
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