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Would you trust an aspie as your care provider?
Poll ended at 17 Apr 2010, 3:52 pm
Yes 93%  93%  [ 13 ]
No 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 14

morpheus316
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18 Mar 2010, 3:52 pm

Hi,

I just recently passed the last tests in CA to become a hearing aid dispenser. I've job shadowed a bit and helped out on cases and it's seemed to fit. I'm curious if there are any other aspies out there who like myself are in the healing arts (medicine, nursing, dentistry/dental hygene, etc.) and what your experiences have been.

Thanks in advance.



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18 Mar 2010, 5:27 pm

Not one myself, but when I was in physical therapy a woman specializing in trigger point therapy came in and did accupressure treatments for my back. We talked a bit, and it turns out she has AS, too. I could tell she was on the spectrum, and I suspect so could she. I don't recall who brought up the AS subject first. :D


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18 Mar 2010, 7:08 pm

I had a hard time with this. I didn't want to say no, because I would be basing it off of myself. I was once in health care. I think that while my patients loved me, I suffered greatly from the sensory overload, noise, and from corporate politics. Yet I believe that I would have been a much better health care provider if I didn't have to work in such a noisy, stressful environment. Aspies can do anything they set their minds too - the trick is to see if they should.


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22 Mar 2010, 2:17 am

I'm going into veternary medicine in the future but I don't know if that counts. I avoid doctors because they are so clueless about AS and even regualr autism. Perhaps if I went to someone who also had AS they'd be a tad more sympathetic or at least be in the same boat as me and know I'm not being a b***h or making things up.



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03 Apr 2010, 9:00 pm

I am starting school in two weeks for massage therapy.



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03 Apr 2010, 9:34 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
I had a hard time with this. I didn't want to say no, because I would be basing it off of myself. I was once in health care. I think that while my patients loved me, I suffered greatly from the sensory overload, noise, and from corporate politics. Yet I believe that I would have been a much better health care provider if I didn't have to work in such a noisy, stressful environment. Aspies can do anything they set their minds too - the trick is to see if they should.


I dropped out of medical school and I totally agree with what you are saying. Modern medical facilities are really very hostile places for the Aspie. There is the smell, the endless motion, the flickering fluorescent lights and everything is a blended beige-blue whirl on top of the need to deal with highly charged events. And we have not even begun to talk about the bitter politics that poisons most healthcare groups.