"you can't be autistic, because ..."

Post Reply New Topic

What winners have you heard, from doctors or others?


This morning a doctor told me,

"It must be something else, maybe histrionic personality. You can't be autistic - you've had a normal life, you were married!"


So the fact that I got into and stayed in a horrible relationship - apparently typical for ASD women - and don't know how to push through the divorce and come out alive proves to an NT doctor that I don't need help.

Where's the sledge-hammer-through-own-skull smiley? They wonder why we often exhibit self-harming behavior?!

Bad doctor, see another one who isn't so flippant about it.

Did you say Asperger's or "autistic"?

Sometimes, professionals equate "autistic" to Autistic Disorder (HFA/LFA), which barring outliers, no one with such marries.

'Because you can talk [as an adult],' by someone who should really know better (this was for differentiating between Autism and Asperger's).

.. you care about what other people think of you.

i heard a funny one about why i was diagnosed with severe pddnos and not classic autism at first, because pddnos is a pdd and because i got my teeth in late, so i was pervasively delayed, so i couldnt be diagnosed with classic autism lol.

Sometimes doctors make me wonder if their really qualified enough hehehe

"You can't be autistic; you have a job and a family".....

(sigh)

...because you make great eye contact & you are too articulate." Um yeah...if only he had seen me in a "normal" situation!

You should have replied "you can't be a doctor you don't know what the hell you're talking about"

"You can't be autistic because you're too good a father."
Coming from my mother, who otherwise tends to criticize my parenting (and *every* "personality fault" my parents have ever criticized me for is somehow connected to Asperger's)

LOL Intense, I sure wish I would have thought about that come back at the time! That's a good one! However, as is typical for me, I usually don't think of a good response until some time at a later date, if at all! (My brain does an awesome job of locking up more often than not! Leaving me high & dry & dumb founded.)

I've done that a few times, It doesn't help matters

My doctor told me, 'you can't have Aspergers because you had an emotional attachment to your granny...' This is my Granny who had died. I was severely depressed about her death and I was really upset by his comment.

so where not allowdto have emotions for people but whe do are able to have emotions for objects realistic

The subject of my Asperger's came up only because, during a routine physical, I simply asked my doctor if he knew of anyone specializing in sensory integration issues:

"What do you mean, you have Asperger's?" (rolls eyes) "You don't have Asperger's - those people are ret*d. I just don't know why you would want a label like that. Have you thought of seeing someone about your self-esteem issues?"

Yeah, I could go back and see the most recent psychiatrist to tell me I was an Aspie.

reschooling please sinds i dont whant medication for braindead patients
edit: all i hear is docters who say where ret*ds whats going on in this world

Me too me too