My therapist (who I’ve only seen twice) said he doesn’t think I’m autistic or that I’m high functioning Asperger’s because I:
-made eye contact
-showed emotions
-made facial expressions
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I had a therapist say this too. Word for word “you can’t be autistic. You make eye contact” YEAH I’M PUTTING ALL MY ENERGY INTO DOING IT RIGHT
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Anonymous12w
”he” IMMMMMEDIATELY NO. Don’t listen to his unqualified ass omg😭 pls get another therapist queen
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Anonymous12w
I HAD A GIRL TELL ME THAT ONCE except her ONLY reasonings were “you make eye contact with me and I work with kids with autism and you aren’t like them” IM AN ADULT ITS NOT GONNA BE THE EXACT SAME
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Anonymous12w
Fired immediately cause what?
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Anonymous12w
i had a therapist in the hospital i was inpatient at tell me i couldnt possibly be depressed because i laughed at a joke someone made and obviously depressed people have to be miserable every single second... 🙄
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Anonymous12w
You might wanna remind him that Asperger’s no longer exists as a diagnosis and to maybe check the news in his field once in his life.
It became SPCD a decade ago and even that was dissolved into ASD in the past half decade or so. It was a huge deal.
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Anonymous12w
the fact that bro is still differentiating and calling it asperger’s tells you enough
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Anonymous12w
Based on this post I really think I might have autism now because I find eye contact extremely uncomfortable but I do it anyway
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Anonymous12w
Mine said it was because I made hand gestures while i spoke
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Anonymous11w
I got told this + I like talking to people and my IQ is ‘too high’ means I can’t possibly be autistic. Turns out this doctor is notorious for saying this EXACT THING TO EVERY PATIENT.
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Anonymous#412w
Mine was a woman😭
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Anonymous#512w
And if you did work with them, you would know it’s different in everyone?? And also I made eye contact with her bc she was my therapist for like two years at least, so yeah girl I was COMFORTABLE
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Anonymous#912w
THISSSS
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Anonymous#1012w
TL;DR – this guy sounds incompetent, look into a new provider if you can!