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When I was 16, I was told by my shrink I chose to have anxiety and other issues. I thought that was dumbest and most insulting thing ever he could say to me.


But I just took it literal and he meant "if you don't do a thing about your problems and don't even try and work on them to get better, you are choosing to have those issues." Years later I now have this mindset and agree with it so it's not insulting as it was back then when I first heard it. But the first time I heard it, I did find it insulting and hurtful. My school counselor once told me I chose to not be aware of how others are feeling. That was also a bunch of bull and also very insulting.


When I was 23, I was told by a therapist she thinks I shouldn't have kids because I have AS.

When I was 12 I went to a psychiatrist and she told me I was retarded in front of my mum and I. The words have stuck in my head ever since. I remember she told me retarded and she asked me if I knew what that meant. She basically said I was socially and developmentally behind all of my peers. Still, the word "retarded" struck me hard.

Me and my friend at school went on strike for being patronised by teachers (we skived off a lesson) when a teacher found us we joked about being the "spazmos" and crazy people of the school and she said, "nah, you're just extra special!"
I could have punched her right there and then.

"You can't have AS because you don't play with fire, torture helpless animals, or wet the bed." -- My former GP.

I would post my brother but it's quite hard to do that.

He says things like "all autistic people do this and are like this and need to be treated like this, and he once said that someone couldn't have been autistic "because autistic people don't like loud noises", as this guy listened to lots of loud music.

And when that autistic dancer boy appeared on Britain's Got Talent a few months ago, I said they shouldn't have made such a big deal out of the fact he has autism, just to get sympathy votes, and it wasn't fair on him as they should have judged him by his talent alone, my brother was like "Why not? That boy obviously lives to just dance. He can only be happy when he dances as he has nothing else." And then he just came out with a load of cliché bullshit like he usually does and prejudged and stereotyped everyone with an ASD.

He thinks he knows everything about autism because he has read some things in books (he works with people with learning disabilities etc and some of them are severely autistic) but he doesn't see it right in front of him.

And he just generally talks down at me and treats me like a retard, even when he's being nice to me, he treats me like I have the mental age of a poisoned foetus. I've given up with him now after an argument last month. I don't need him and don't miss him.

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