It's hard to understand how people could be so ignorant and still feel comfortable working with patients.
If I were n the same situation, or if my son were in the same situation, I would mention that I found their argument flawed and their knowledge deficient, point them to books by well established experts countering their misguided ideas, and tell them that further action on their part will lead to a malpractice lawsuit that they will inevitably lose.
"Aspergers kids don't want friends" is false.
"Aspergers kids don't acknowledge that they are different" is false.
"Doctors know best " is, unfortunately, sometimes also false. These clowns should know better.
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04 Jun 2013, 5:21 am
ZombieBrideXD wrote:
"... we think you have a mixture of a nonverbal learning disability, ADHD, OCD and social phobia."
Any self-respecting doctor/psychiatrist/therapist who is considering this cluster of diagnoses should also be considering a spectrum disorder. Plain and simple.
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04 Jun 2013, 3:45 pm
Doctors can be so dim.
When I was a child my parents would take me to shrinks (because of my aspergers but this was decades before even shrinks knew about aspergers).
This involved my parents being interveiwed about me by the shrinks. And my parents would describe my habit of 'drawing stories' in crude comic book form.
I would create characters who would have adventures and fight battles, and so forth, and would draw pictures of the action in panel form filling up big sheets of artists drawing pads. And each page would be a chapter that I would call "an episode". I was apeing the way TV shows are divided into "episodes".
But these doctors would get pissed off at my parents and declare "NO child would talk that way! No child would use the word "episode"!"
Okay... in shrink lingo (ie psychology) the word "episode" apparently is a technical term in their own trade- for moments in human interaction- or something like that.
So they jumped to the conclusion that my parents were crediting me with using psycho babble at 8 years old.
They all had their heads so far up their wazoos that it didnt occur to them that I mightve gotten the term 'episode' from the TV sitcoms and saturday morning cartoons that every rug rat watches!
04 Jun 2013, 5:06 am
