How to get help for your autism in France, namely in regards to higher education (getting extra time on exams, someone to write lectures down for you, and so on)? And what kind of support is available in France for young adults with autism?
-I don't think there is
Sadly, due to the psychoanalytic influence in French psychiatry, and its general delay of roughly 40 years compared to the US psychiatry, it isn't uncommon to receive diagnoses such as "childhood hysteria", "disorder of behavior", etc. from the "professionals" who are supposed to fill in your paper work for disability and other services. They outright reject my autism diagnosis from other clinics, saying that "the clinics use American criteria which is influenced by big pharma", "we only use French criteria", "the international criteria is wrong" and other idiotic things of this sort.
How to get proper disability services, when such conditions are prevalent? The French psychiatrists believe that the problem is that I'm "too attached to my mother" and that I need to live in separate psychiatric apartments, while actively working. Please note that such apartments assume that you're autonomous, which I'm not - they don't offer to do anything for you - you have to do everything by yourself. This is very difficult, considering I can't even make my bed, nor fold my clothes.
-Maybe, but I really don't know, getting a label for another disability?
there's nothing for young adults, if it can't be medicated it don't exist
Education is not expensive but it doesn't come with a map neither
I saw a person to talk about educational choises once, but he could only repeat the brochure that was handed out.
What to do in this situation?
- get a professional ally, a good social worker can open things up, but finding one first
via le medicin ou mairie, ou caisse?> assistant social
http://www.etudiant.gouv.fr/pid20424/etudiants-handicapes.html comme d'hab il faut d'abord être reconnu handicapé.
but I find when you've never worked they prefer keepin the doors closed, retry, retry and retry, bore them with that.
27 Jun 2015, 1:19 pm
