Understanding and Helping

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I'm an old aspie, who only got a diagnosis a few years ago. All my life, and my mother's, we avoided doctors because we could only have been misdiagnosed and mistreated. I am curious to hear from kids who have had the various new treatments, and if they feel helped or just roboticized.
Generally, when I have felt misunderstood, it has been because people don't notice that they have presented a logical conundrum. I often thought that there was no point in talking if people had not thought about my previous statement, or even their own contradictions.
I may have been generally discouraged, but I stopped asking for my mother's advice on anything at age 3, when I wanted help with a drawing, and she should have said she was busy but would help later, but instead just said that it was nice. She would never say "I don't know." At best, I'd get dragged off to the Encyclopedia, which usually didn't either. It is a perfectly valid answer, and often the only honest one.

I was diagnosed at seven and pretty much all the "treatment" I received was forced upon me and I felt as if people were trying to have me roboticized. Are you famaliar with the SonicSatAM cartoons? That's the only place I've heard that term before. I always thought it was a metaphore for conformity and in my fanfics it would only work if you let it. People tried and tried to change me and turn me NT, but it never worked and my parents eventualy realised they had better just accept me as I am.