Can you Break Someone of Autism?

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I have both personal and objective observations of this. As a child I was a brainiac who ran around in boy clothes and thought i was a super hero. I never had hallucinations. I have now realized anti-psychotics and anti-depressants cause them. I hadn't had them before I was prescribed medications. I was misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia. Now I was undiagnosed after being evaluated and told I have a mood disorder. The reason: because I don't have normal emotions. I am flat, apathetic, and I'm not normal. I spent years trying to fit in, behave like others, I invented my whole normal identity. I can't function like others. I never had interest in makeup, trends, sex, or anything. Noise and lights caused me to become dysfunctional and zone out.

I was being bullied and I was sent to boarding school after my high SAT scores instead of being helped. My parents were always jealous of me. I was "different" but I'm not bipolar. I am upset. I am tired of being labelled random labels that are labels just to call them labels and give me pills. I don't have a therapist. I am living at home with my mom and the situation is a hidden terror in my head. I found old scores my dad had saved that say 98 97 and 99 percent higher IQ than national average when I was fourteen. I was never told. I was never given this i found it hidden away when my dad moved out.

I'm not bragging; it's just that it was hidden from me. I am sent to all these hospitals, overdosed and sent home with a label of paranoid schizophrenia and live with that for ten yeas. Then I apply for disability, am re-evaluated and told I have bipolar and adhd and anxiety but not given medication to help that either. Just the meds that make me dysfunctional and seem bipolar: strattera, vistaril, and abilify. I have lied and said i've been taking my meds for about a year now. Maybe longer. I don't smoke pot or do drugs anymore. I'm afraid to leave psychiatrist because it was forced onto me by my parents so is a false choice for me. I've been lied about; talked down to and abusd by the system.

I'm told Aspergers is only used to diagnose people who are limited with it. I had a therapist for a short time who said I had Autism, that it was a neurological difference not a psychiatric one. I told her about the light sensitivity and noise how I can hear everything and can't tune certain things out. Everything they have done was reinforce complex patterns in my head. I'm beginning to doubt the existence of schizophrenia other than a cop out for someone in a state of crisis. Who decided to start labeling everyone who gets overwhelmed and drugging them until they become the diagnosis. The only cure was to throw myself into writing. I taught myself to write even though I'm not that good. I have not been in school for four years now. My parents wont pay and dont want me to finish I'm 28 a woman who feels like an adult child and the whole situation is depressing. I started self harming because no one paid attention and I had no emotions and nothing was fixing me.

My personality is consistent. I am consistent. This is who I am. But they refuse to diagnose me with the right label and I'm being locked away in my parents house like a monster.

Hello and welcome to Wrong Planet, Astryd. While one cannot completely break someone of Autism, one can learn coping mechanisms to help one deal with the everyday NT world. Our brains are set up differently than most people. (Kinda like having a Linux operating system installed instead of Microsoft.) I hope you find what you are seeking for on here.

You are just you; we don't really want labels from "professionals" about ourselves that say "may have this trait" when you don't have the trait causing wrong labels to be given to us by laypeople and even professionals saying "has that trait" when you don't. That happened to me. As for your overstimulation, you need help with that... for sensory processing... but labels don't currently help... there should be a label for every trait so people don't assume someone has a certain trait just because they have a certain label. Still, a diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder and even sometimes the diagnosis of a mood disorder isn't as stigmatizing as the AS diagnosis because not as much is assumed with those ones.

I wouldn't want anyone breaking me of my autism. I see it as something for me to celebrate. My mum tried to do that to me over the years. The last time she tried that trick on me was last February to April. I put my foot down, told her to stop doing it and I took a break from visiting my parents except for on birthdays and holidays for four and a half months, last spring and summer. My short answer to the OP is that if you try to break a person of autism and they don't wish to be cured, than this is what happens.