Therapists who are ignorant about AS [rant]

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Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one.

Has anyone noticed how none of the "therapists" who help with aspies actually are aspies. You never get any aspie aspie-therapists! There should be at least one.

And that's one of the biggest problems. They know us like a scientist knows a bug - they have theories and experiments and so on. But they have no real life experience to mentor or teach us with.

I was questioning my psych teacher, who is currently studying to be a psychiatrist, about Autism as we were on a related child development chapter in the class. He mentioned that he hoped science finds a cure soon, and that scientists have found mercury and chemicals in vaccines to be the cause of most Autism.

All I could respond with was an awkward "Oh".

Nice - NOT.

Sounds like a so-called "therapist" influenced by that harmful hate group FAAAS, which has done great damage all around, to aspies, to society's image of aspies, to the "training" of therapists, doctors, attorneys and social workers, said "training" involving indoctrination with FAAAS's special brand of hate and misinformation concerning AS. Most therapists really know and understand little about AS, and what they do think they know and understand they quite often got from either FAAAS or a similar group.

Planning to be a therapist. I would love to work with young aspergians and such in part because i know their problems.

They should all be aspies, IMO.

cant be bothered reading all the comments but when you say 'therepist' do you mean psychologist or psychiatrist? or some other form of theropist? correct me if im wrong but plain theropist isnt a proffenion you cant get a degree in just theropy, although you can get a degree in physical theropy, music theropy ect.
its like saying psysosist sure to the ignorant physosist is a proffession but it isnt, qauntum physosist is, theoretical physosist is but not just physoist


yes i know my spelling is horrible but i am trying to hide the screen from my teacher right now so i cant see my keyboard or screen very well

haha same bro and i plan to look for a 'cure' for all forms of asbhergers and ADD and ADHD, (when i say cure i mean to only fix the issues, the weaknesses not the strengths like the social development.)
again horrible spelling i know

I never wonder why we're the disabled ones when I have overloads, or when I have to do compulsive movements, stims, etc. I never questioned it when I was a kid and I had to literally do the same thing over and over and over again for hours, even though I didn't want to do it at all.

i was thinking the same thing but i didnt want to kill the discusion by posting three times in a row haha.

I agree about the overloads and such being disabling at times. And the social stuff can really screw us up. But the aim should be to keep us who we individually are, while helping us learn to manage our overloads (which can be done in all but the worst cases) and learn social skills. The aim too often is simply to break off our sharp edges so we are compatible in a theoretical NT world. I don't want to be an NT. I want to be a happy, fulfilled aspie.

similar here. I was the "wrong" side of 30 when I got my first nintendo -- had to buy books for the Mario that came with it and never did finish it. I didn't get my hands on real computers until '98.

IMHO: I don't buy the claims that 90% or so of Aspies are unemployed/underemployed. I suspect it's of known Aspies/Auties, and what is know is only the tip of the iceburg. a study in South Korea indicated a 1 in 38 prevalence. I doubt South Korea is special, so if that holds true for us and we are still only detecting 1 in 88, where are the rest? flying under the radar undetected!

http://news.yale.edu/2011/05/09/prevale ... 8-children

This. Totally.

I agree totally, CuriousKitten. The only ones mainstream therapists and researchers know about are the ones that have no choice (in some way or another) to submit to their often disabling practices and "help".

I didn't really begin getting my sensory issues under control (most of the time, anyway) until maybe 10 years ago. And my social skills were so bad I didn't even know they were bad. But I had an inherent distrust of the psych/disability system, so I avoided it with all my intention. That means the info about my life (and others like me), and my discovering of ways to help and improve myself, are not and never will be part of the informational understanding and practice of any therapist.

And that matters not at all to almost all of them. Which makes their "help" garbage, at best; to the majority of us who are "hidden" in plain sight.