Insulting sh** doctors say...

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Well what do you except? It's Kaiser.

"We want you to live well, and thrive..."

... so we can act like jerks toward you for the rest of your life and still take your money!

I once sat across from a licensed, experienced psychiatrist and was told,
'Bullsh**, you do not have Asperger's Syndrome. People with Asperger's are not losers like you, they are brilliant and they do things with their lives.'

No kidding. Doctor in SW Florida, swear to God she said this to me.

OMFG... the only appropriate response to that would be these words as you immediately head for the door;
"You may choose my appendage on which you may suckle."

I was rolling my eyes at one expert on Autism because they said that they can only treat children, not adults, because adults are "out of their league". WTF.

DR. STUPID: autism is a childrens diagnosis! anyway, if you do have autism, how did you make it all the way through school? middle school? high school? how did you get into college?

i guess i should write the creators to the DSM 5 and let them know autism terminates at age 18 and makes individuals allergic to academic advancement. graduating from kindergarten might just cause anaphylactic shock, if you're not careful. /end sarcasm

Background: My former dr wanted to try a risky but commonly used medicine for my colitis. Since it can cause cancer and my disease already increases my risk, I needed a screening to make sure I didn't have cancer first. As a child, I was abused so terribly during these screenings that I have ptsd sypmtoms and refuse to do them.

I had lost 20 pounds due to my illness, but I was still overweight (which I pointed out) so my dr says

"If you weren't overweight, I'd have you committed. Do you see a shrink?"

I told her I'd been going to the shrink almost as long as I'd had my colitis. (diagnosed at 8 ) and it made things worse.

Pissed me off so bad to think that in her mind since I refused to face that abusive situation and take a scary drug despite my rapid weight loss (even though the weight loss is the only good thing about colitis) makes me suicidal and being fat makes that ok.

For the record, I gained everyone of those goddamn pounds back and more. Then I lost them and more. My illness is even worse, but I am happier than ever. Idiot doctors. *spits in disgust*

This is the same dr that asked *me* what *she* had prescribed, then refused to believe me since she didn't take proper notes, which she flipped thru constantly.

She also walked into the room one day swearing up and down that she had just seen me tho it had been six months. She later decided that she had seen paperwork about me and apparently got me and papers about me confused.

I won't go into psych drs. I don't want to find out if there is a character limit on WP posts.

To shortcircuit3
That is an issue that affects me personally. I self-diagnosed at age 39, and almost no one I know, family included, has taken it seriously. I can assure you that I am not wrong about my diagnosis (hand flapper, narrow interests, high intelligence, lack of social skills, the whole gamut).
Much of the problem seems to be that Autism/Asperger's is mainly seen as a 'child' disability. As if those children don't grow up to be adults!! !! !


I am homeless, have no medical insurance or care of any kind, and I am desperately trying to survive living between a van and hotel rooms. No one cares. There is no government help for me, there isn't even church-based help for me, I am all alone.

To metaldanielle
- I probably shouldn't say this, but you are 22, I have found cannabis is excellent for eating disorders of all kinds. It isn't for everyone, but cannabis helps my sensory issues, my depression, sleep issues, and my eating issues. Just throwing that out, be careful.

That's just it, I'm not anorexic, or bulimic. I may be a binge eater, but that's not what was causing my weight loss,(obviously) and cannabis would make that worse.

Aaaaaah, so you would think

Actually, I am a binge eater also, and true, cannabis is not my panacea for that in a direct way, but it still helps in other ways.
The way I deal with my binge eating is:
I never have any more than 2 days worth of food on hand!
That's right, I go to the store every single night after work and buy ONLY that night's worth of food. I buy ONLY that night's worth of beer. It's like a frozen dinner, a bag of munchies, a candy bar, and a few beers every single night of my life.
If I buy more than that, I overeat.

Nuts right? But it does work.

Where the cannabis comes in is, after just a toke or two my compulsive side calms down and I can focus on some TV or some video games or a project - not food.

Hope you find your way of dealing, I believe in thinking out of the box, so my solutions may be radical, but if you really want something you can find a way (unless it is something super expensive, but eating control is free if you can pull it off).

it bothers me (and i don't think i can summon a superlative emphatic enough to describe how much) that there aren't more services available for autistic adults. and it bothers me that the word autism, in public discussion, is almost always followed by "your child" or "these kids" or "one in 88 children and one in 54 boys". i don't know if people do the same when discussing other developmental disabilities or conditions... but its certainly a reflection of how unilateralist and ageist the conventional focus is. i'm glad that autism is getting more attention but i'm disturbed by the insularity of its scope. autism is more than the echolalic three year old in early intervention. it's also people like us. autism grows up :/

i guess it speaks to the importance of self-advocacy, no? (sigh)

Yes,
I found each and every way Asperger's affected my life, good and bad, the moment I found 'it'. I searched all my life for 'it'. I searched through abnormal psych, and I searched through DSM (IV at the time), I searched for why I was wrong [different].

I found it. Took 39 years, but I found it, no one found it for me (or noticed), and I am proud of 'it' - who I am.
I am proud of being able to find it - I am Asperger's - a twisted genius. Actually, my IQ tops out as 'gifted' - just below genius - but let's face it, most people today are friggin uneducated zombies.

Once I found it, no one in my family, save for a couple brothers, cared to acknowledge and understand some of my more colorful moments. I was not forgiven. I was still on the 'outs' with my family. Screw it.

Self-advocate, that's what I am.
Definitely.

[Background: Had sleeping problems for 15 years; go to sleep specialist]
DR: So I see you have a sleeping problem. It says here you take [sleeping pills]
ME: Yes I have had a sleeping problem since I was a teenager. I have been on sleeping pills for the last 2.5 years straight without a night off them.
DR: So how is your sleeping?
ME: Well, on account of the sleeping pills, I fall asleep ok. But I have trouble staying asleep, I wake up frequently, and I never feel rested.
DR: I really can't see any evidence of a sleeping problem. It's normal for people to wake up in the night.


Subsequent letter to my referring DR: Patient has no sleeping problem. Does not report any difficulties falling asleep.



...um yeah, because I"m on sleeping pills for that? I never went back but needless to say he screwed me over because it got put on my record that 'I don't have a sleeping problem' despite the fact that he didn't listen to what I had to say, or like, take into consideration the referring notes.

Here's a gem from our health insurance (not really doctors, but health-related nonetheless):

Mom: Tommy (my brother with severe autism) need speech therapy. Why did you take it away?

Health insurance: It's not medically necessary for him to talk. We only offer speech therapy up to 9 years old. (Tommy is 19)

My point of view is that it IS medically necessary. At the very least, he needs to be able to tell us where he's hurting.

How about the time the doctor and his co-workers physicaly abused me and said I attacked them when they attacked me!
the next day the doctor lied to me, saying my mom was going to take me home, when instead the cops showed up and arressted me for crimes I did not commit!! !
Now I have a massive fine to pay, I was in jail for like three and a half weeks, (not all at once but still) and I'm on probation!! !
Talk about a bad doctor!

Years ago I was discussing having been bullied at school with an NHS counsellor and I was asked why I hadn't singled out one of the bullied, dragged him into the toilets and beat the s**t out of him. I was also told that things from so long ago couldn't possibly be causing me problems now.

I was talking to another counsellor about the difficulties I was experiencing in forming relationships and I felt that my appearance where partly to blame. She suggested that I should try to approach women of retirement are (25 years my senior) or even to look into getting a mail order bride from Thailand (! !!)

As I mention above I have always been rather hung up about my appearance. Once when I was seeing a counsellor about this one of the receptionists said to the other after they had signed me in: "Doesn't he look like Lurch from the Addams Family?"...