When you have difficulty organizing...
When you can speak and present yourself very well and you have difficulty organizing things, being a lifelong issue going back to early childhood, to where you need an organizer to help you, and you tell your psychiatrist, they will assume it is because of one of three things, and will present the solution for you:
1.) It's a mood issue, that is, you're depressed (and probably bipolar, 'cause he can see you fidgeting in your chair); you just need to get the perfect combination of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antidepressants. Once that happens, and maybe you get some CBT, the organizational problems will simply go away.
2.) It's an anxiety issue. You just need lots of psychotheraphy and it'll get fixed.
3.) It's a personality or character issue. Maybe you're just lazy, and need a good whack on the back of your head every so often. Maybe you're doing it as a ritual for the sun goddess or it's a passive-aggressive way to get back at somebody, so you need long periods of time on the couch to talk about how being disorganized makes you feel, and work out your Oedipus urges (since those are probably the cause, he thinks).
And then in comes the all-knowing relative who knows the impairments you've had are simply "playing a victim." He tells you you can't always depend on an organizer and that you've just got overcome your good-for-nothing laziness once and for all and once you work really really hard you'll be able to make lifelong impairments begone forever!
Of course, you find that if someone helps structure the activity, you can actually get the organizing job done and well, and feel good about doing it! But no one's going to do that. They'd rather just talk down to you from a distance.
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That is really frustrating. I understand, though, because I have difficulty organizing despite how much I have TRIED. And when someone sets up a system FOR me, without my input, it does no good. I need help with someone beside me, working *with* me on setting up a proper system that will work *for me.*
The problem is that I really need professional help AND the actual organizational tools that would make things easier. All of those things take money. It would be really nice if ASD-assistance would help hire a personal assistant or organizational specialist or someone like that. But since I hear they don't...there's no point in trying to get a diagnosis. Sometimes I wish I had the money to hire a personal assistant or a secretary or an account...