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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”he” IMMMMMEDIATELY NO. Don’t listen to his unqualified ass omg😭 pls get another therapist queen

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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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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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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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the fact that bro is still differentiating and calling it asperger’s tells you enough

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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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Mine said it was because I made hand gestures while i spoke

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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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