What do your parents do?

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Is that common? I would think it hard to be "passed on" like that, once you get to know and trust the psychiatrist she sends you on to someone else and you have to start all over again building up trust to the new therapist. How's that working out for you?

Brrr... the very thought of being passed on now that I finally have begun trusting the psychiatrist that diagnosed me and feeling I can confide in her...



OP, my father is 60 years old and he dropped out of school after the compulsory 7 years. He has worked at an oil platform and as a road worker. For the last 20 something years he has worked at the harbour authorities, hard physical work until he got ill and was given new tasks, less physical.

My mother is 52 years, 2 decades older than me, and she dropped out of high school after the first year. She used to be a cashier, but for the last almost 30 years she has worked in the postal service at the division responsible for sorting letters.

I don't know if that makes us worker class or lower middle class.

I grew up in middle class...

My mom has worked in various office jobs as secretaries, etc, she is currently running a City Municipal Dept of some sort...(office work). She received a college degree about a decade ago.

My father is a jack of all trades. The list of jobs he has held include: cowboy, deep sea fisherman, tobacco farmer, carpenter, old-school wooden boat builder, astronomy magazine editor, college professor, writer, marine surveyor, and the list goes on...He received a college degree less than a decade ago and is close to earning a doctorate.

They never sought psychological assessments for me, I guess I was/am too good of a social chameleon.

Whatever they damn well please.

i do understand your point about developing trust only to be duck-shoved on to someone else... that would not sit well with me at all.

my psychiatrist is still treating me for depression and anxiety - managing my medication. the psychologist specialises in autism spectrum diagnosis and cognitive behavioural therapy... it is a joined effort . i had my initial consultation with the psychologist on Monday (11th January, 2010).

My dad was a chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy. He retired recently after 20 years in.
Now he works some upper management job around the naval shipyard as a civilian, not sure where or what exactly though. But he makes about just as much as he did in the navy, plus it's complemented by his navy retirement checks which he gets regularly now for having been in 20 years.

& my mom is a hair-stylist. She doesn't make all that good of money, but i can get my hair cut, styled, or dyed however i want for free. It's a cool perk.

My mother sorts clothing at a local charity/business. She doesn't even need a job with the amount of money my father earns but she says that she gets borred with staying home and enjoys having an income.

My father works as a supervisor for a manufacturing company. He earns HUGE amounts of money for it too...

Autism dosen't just choose to go with certain classes, it's 100% certainly the latter.

The latter, it's just plain stupid to say that only white collar children get Autism, more like they're the only ones who get diagnosed. The rest just don't get any help.

Take up space in the ground.

I would think that the statistics come from those who are generally noticed (aka those with money who can afford extensive AND expensive diagnostic tests). I was diagnosed through free services, we're not rich.

As for my parents...
My mum is a personal trainer and aerobics instructor. My biological dad is a farmer (although I have no contact with him) and my step dad who I live with is a sales manager for a mag wheel company called Koya Wheels.

My mother is a caregiver.
My father is an idiot.

MY dad is a contractor building shelving units for offices and warehouses. MY mom works with him.

I was sent to a psychiatrist when I was 11. It was a teacher and the school doctor that forced it through and I was forced to go there very much against my will. My parents had no say in it and I think they felt at a loss, not knowing what to think.
It was a complete waste of time and nothing good came of it.


After learning about AS in my mid/last 20’s I decided I needed to check it out. It was all my decision and no one else had anything to do with it.

Last edited by Skilpadde on 18 Jan 2010, 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My parents don't do anything. They are useless; waste of air.

I was brought up by my dad, he was a fireman when we were young and nowadays he's still at the Fire Brigade but works as a computer tech/IT monkey due to his age. My mum's an alcoholic who manages to hold down a job at Tesco, I had very little contact with her as a child. I would describe my upbringing as working class.

I was first referred to psychology at the age of 10 as school were concerned about my behaviour, I attended regularly for two years before being passed to the Young People's Department at the local psychiatric hospital where I had regular appointments for a further four years before being discharged at 16, but was never diagnosed with anything until I asked to be tested for Asperger's as an adult.