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Surfman
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12 Jun 2011, 2:30 pm

Bertvan wrote:
Thank you for the responses, everyone. Everyone is different, and differences should be celebrated, rather than deplored. I've always known that, but what I must remind myself is that psychotherapy is helpful for some people. Some people really appreciate such help.

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Do you accept the notion of oppositional defiant disorder? :wink:

I want to celebrate the sensory overload panic attack I had in the crowded mall on the weekend, but I will leave that celebration to others, who find celebration a more fitting emotional response



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12 Jun 2011, 3:18 pm

BlueMage wrote:
I would not dismiss the idea of autistic kids's mothers rejecting them. Maybe I'm just a little bit aspie, but I especially remember as a child feeling like my mother rejected me.

Is that the Refrigerator Mother theory from the 1950s? Or do you think parents reject children because they are autistic?

My parents decided that having a defective child wasn't to be and concealed my autism from me. So all my defects were deliberate. I'm not in the mood for forgiving just yet.