Autism and mental illness

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My Autism/Mentaly ill therapist made me so mad she does not believe in my autism anymore. Once again everything is ruined this time not because of my parents at least not yet. Now I'm going to end up with a mental services instead of develpmentally disabled services. I need OPWDD and now I'm never going to get it or be in the special Olympics . I am hearing voices and my therapist wants me to get a program with mentally ill people instead of develpmentally disabled people. I need to be with others like myself and not with Mentaly ill people who are not developmentally disabled .it make me cry that people think I'm acting like this on purpose when I have symptoms of autism and mental illness. I am autistic but now i myself am going into
Denial and am starting to feel like a fake.

That's terrible. Can't your parents/guardians tell her something to help you?

Jeni: you know you are not a fake.

Don't let anybody else try to tell you that you are fake.

I could understand you feeling: you'd rather be among people with whom you feel a kinship. I would feel the same way.

That's ridiculous, for one it is very possible for people with autism to have mental illness..So its pretty stupid your therapist would think having mental health issues cancels out autism. In fact many people with autism commonly have co-morbid mental illness like depression and anxiety...so yeah that is pretty stupid.

And yeah obviously people with only mental illness and no autism may not really have any understanding of how having autism effects you and what not...I mean why not mental and developmentally disabled services? Or do you not have any mental illness?(a bit confused about whether you're saying they think your autism is just mental illness, or you have mental illness on top of it and they only want to focus on that but not the autism)

Unfortunately no they are in denial. My therapist said that I can't be evaluated for autism until my voices go away and that In my state of mind I wouldn't be accepted except for a different thing for mental health and I feel strongly that I don't belong with those kids. At times they were mean and bullied me the hospital and although a few were kind I. just don't belong with them.

I have to see her next week and I have no idea what to do or say to her? Any ideas?

Could you find another therapist to go to? Why does she think you are not autistic if she thought you were before?

A lot of the time people make comments they may mean at the time, it can be agonizing when we take what they say literally, and it turns out they've forgotten or changed their minds when we see them again. I hope whatever is causing the voices gets better and they go away by the next time you see your therapist. And maybe she'll have changed her mind about her position.