Mariouch wrote:
Okay, my point was that he has no guidence. How could he learn from his mistakes when he apparently has no loving support, and everyone else who wants to "help him" typically harp on him for what he's done wrong, furthering his demoralization, and lengthening his antics. On top of that, the CWCiki takes it too far. I find that the recent hack of that site to be amusing (Gary was here, Ash is a loser. lol), but I actually hope that its content is saved for psychologists to analyze on both Chris and the trolls' part, and taken off the internet.
Exactly! What he seems to be lacking are people around him that really believe in him and want to help him, instead of just criticizing him and treating him like a circus act. He needs a quality support network of people who are very direct in their approaches to help him with social and occpational skills, so that he can gain friends, a job, and perhaps a girlfriend.
Sadly, he is not being honest with himself and his difficulties. He pushes away any sort of help he gets, whether it be directly (by not associating with the wider autistic community) or indirectly (by reacting inappropriately to people who do reach out to help him).
His psychological report on ED suggests that he continue to go to counselling. I doubt he's done that, but if he does do that, it has the potential to transform him. He also needs to know the difference between negative and postitive attention, as he likely figures that any attention on him at all is a good thing. He has embarrassed himself so much though, and exhibits so many inappropriate behaviours, that it's hard to know where to really start with him.
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Given a “tentative” diagnosis as a child as I needed services at school for what was later correctly discovered to be a major anxiety disorder.
This misdiagnosis caused me significant stress, which lessened upon finding out the truth about myself from my current and past long-term therapists - that I am an anxious and highly sensitive person but do not have an autism spectrum disorder.
My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I’m no longer involved with the ASD world.