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23 Jan 2016, 1:24 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:
Social skills can be practiced and improved, sure, but is the concept of a gradual approach just unknown to this guy?

I think I'm improved as much as I can be.

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Oh, that makes sense. Back then, they didn't really have HFA, but they did have a category for 'residual autism' - meaning someone who used to meet autistic criteria, had mostly 'recovered', but still had some autistic tendencies. That's probably what he's talking about here.

Good to know. Thanks! He has used the term residual.

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Find someone younger with a more up-to-date education. Good luck.

Thanks. I hope I get someone half decent.



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23 Jan 2016, 1:42 pm

androbot01 wrote:
Wolfram87 wrote:
Social skills can be practiced and improved, sure, but is the concept of a gradual approach just unknown to this guy?

I think I'm improved as much as I can be.


Fair enough, but then his advice makes even less sense. If you think your social skills are pretty much "peaked", making a point of getting into as many social situations as possible is just wasteful self-flagellation. If you think you can't increase your capacity for social interaction, you need to work on finding ways to get by decently with what you got. Just my 0.02$.


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23 Jan 2016, 2:04 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:
Fair enough, but then his advice makes even less sense. If you think your social skills are pretty much "peaked", making a point of getting into as many social situations as possible is just wasteful self-flagellation.

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If you think you can't increase your capacity for social interaction, you need to work on finding ways to get by decently with what you got. Just my 0.02$.

That's right.

Like I said before, my mask had fallen slightly when I met with him last. He thinks if I can put it back on again that my autism will be gone. He is confusing symptoms with disorder.



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23 Jan 2016, 2:16 pm

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I think your psychiatrist is incompetent, and you should get someone else.

I have one more meeting with him before he retires. Not sure who, if anyone, I will be seeing then. There are not enough psychiatrists for the number of patients needing help.
He really is fairly useless. But you kinda have to work with what you get here. His training for ASD seems to date from the early '70s.

Yeah, those of in Ontario have to wait like an average of 18 months now just to see a psychiatrist. So whoever you get, no matter how incompetent, you are pretty much stuck with lol. It is so long that by the time you get a phone call saying you have an appointment with so and so, you are like "What? who is that?" you cant even remember why you were sent to see one in the first place. I've found that doctor's in general don't bother to learn even one new kilobyte of information since they graduated from medical school.



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23 Jan 2016, 6:20 pm

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Yeah, those of in Ontario have to wait like an average of 18 months now just to see a psychiatrist.

At least it's free once you get one, but sometimes you get what you pay for. It's hit and miss. Getting one who knows anything about autism is even less likely.