I am a 20 year old female and I have Asperger's Syndrome. I consider myself pretty high functioning. Last year I applied to Chapel Haven's ASAT program in New Haven, Connecticut and got in. I was raped by another student there and was when I confided in the school therapist she told me that I was a liar and that I "probably had consented to having sex and then decided to call it rape later because the school has a No Sex rule on campus and I didn't want to get in trouble" So I was betrayed by my own therapist who I thought would be there for me. When I burst into tears and left the room during that interaction she wrote up in my report that I had "poor perspective taking skills" I left the program a few months after that interaction. I went there a total of 8 months and while it was good in the beginning...things went down hill pretty quickly. Now I am at home sleeping late and doing nothing except for going to my new therapist (Who is actually good at her job) once a week. But I feel like I'm going nowhere with my life. I know I should cut myself some slack since I did just come out of a bad situation in a terrible transition program but still. I've been looking to find a new transition program but everywhere I've called has just listened to me talk and then told me that I'm too high functioning. I want a program that's pretty close to or in Massachusetts with people who are at a similar level to me. I just want a program that is residential, has support for college, and be somewhere near a place I can a job. I just want to be successful. Does anyone know of such a place? Please respond if you do. Thank you so much for reading.
15 Jun 2013, 9:15 pm
