Stupid things medical professionals have said to you

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My GP's response when I mentioned the possibility of having AS:

"As you have a job and don't have any big problems in life, I don't think there's much point looking into it."

I'm sorry, I must have imagined all those years of feeling isolated and depressed, being socially inept and bullied throughout school as a result, having meltdowns, needing routines to feel comfortable in life, having obsessive interests, being uncoordinated, being hypersensitive to cold surfaces etc. I also didn't realise that the DSM-IV criteria had been changed to

1) Unemployable
2) Has problems in life

Anyone else had similar/worse?

I've had a similar experience... A couple weeks ago I saw a phychiatrist. After spending an hour telling him about all my symptoms he tells me that he thinks I have "social phobia" and tried putting me on pills for that... He didn't even know what a "stim" was (he told me that he THINKS he knew what I meant), didn't know what aspergers was, etc. (how is this idiot a phychologist?)

I left there feeling like I wasted my time... I had to wait for two months just hear that it sounds like I have "social phobia" and that I should get help for it. I told him that I wasn't content with his diagnosis and told him that I want to get help for aspergers or asperger's-like symptoms. Him and the health-care professional he was sitting beside told me that "I shouldn't waste my time with problems I don't have, and that I should see them again and get "homework" from them for my anxiety until I overcome my anxiety.

Sorry but no f*cking thank you!

BTW I have hated MOST psychologists, psychiatrists, health care workers and doctors for the past few years. I've had nothing but trouble with them. The best way IMO to get a proper diagnosis is to do a bunch of research yourself. A doctor is kind of like a sh*tty medical book, they know bits and pieces about certain things and lots of the bits are left out. If you do see a doctor try to find one who has worked with lots of aspies.

'Oh, why do you think you have autism?'

'That's hard to answer.'

'Give me an example of why you think you have autism.'

'Because of my entire life.'
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'Do you hate your mother?'

'No.'

'Are you sure?'
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'You must be able to use the phone. It's easy.'
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'Do you feel depressed?'

'No.'

'Do you usually feel depressed?'

'Never.'

'You make a very depressed impression on me right now.'
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'Do you want to die still?'

'No. I never wanted to die.'

'But you wanted to kill yourself, people only do that when they want to die.'

'I'm not like people. I forgot killing myself would leave me dead there for a moment.'

'Now, is that so? I don't believe that's true.'
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'You're not autistic. You're almost an adult.'

In response to "I need to know how and why the items you're giving me will help, otherwise I won't be very good at taking/doing them. I need to do a significant amount of research myself" I got "well, these things are very complicated. There are a lot of things we don't understand about all of this" and no explanations whatsoever.

"I believe you may have bipolar disorder....only without the mania, or up-sides."

"...you mean depression?"

"I think it's time for you to become an adult" (at 39....)

"you can't have asperger, you're looking at my eyes"

"aspergers don't even go to school, they're institutionnalised, you are not that"

in psychiatric IC unit, after an attempt "You can't die only from Prozac overdose, you should have ****** too"
(I censured it cause, to the opposite of the stupid psy, i don't want to give infos about what's effective for suicide...)

Are you asking me to summerize about 7 hours worth of sessions?

The most BS my shrink ever told me was "Well, you are obviously doing high-school quite well and you dont have major problems in your life, neither socially"..

Why thanks. No wonder i dont have no BIG problems socially when i stay at my room most of the day because i SUCK at social life. Thanks for making it obvious to me.

Also, it goes hand in hand with what you pointed out, just because you can make your way trough life, it doesnt mean you dont have problems.

On Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (this is VERY OFFENSIVE):

You're lucky you're married and where you are in life, you know. Most PCOS women are very fat and end up having to marry a brown man, because brown men are more accepting of fat women. That's why you always see fat white women with brown men.

I reported him for that, but nothing happened to him. He still works there, and is still able to see patients and make sizist and racist remarks to them.

On OCD:

Can't you just stop thinking those thoughts? I mean, if they bother you, why do you keep thinking them?

Uh, I am obsessed with scary crap, and then I am compelled to continue to think about it. It's a disorder. Hence the "O", the "C", and the "D" part.

Oh man, I will edit to include more. I know there are many more.

wow that is terrible

"Maybe your mum wants you to lose weight, because she wants you to be in touch, with your inner feminine beauty."

What inner feminine beauty? I didn't know that tomboy punks had inner feminine beauty.