Autism, just a temporary fashion...

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Not to mention BPD itself is mostly a wastebasket dx to begin with

1. Autism expert in Max-Planck-Institute Berlin (Germany)
2. Autism Center in Stuttgart (Germany)
3. Autism Consultation in the University Clinic Heidelberg (Germany)

I'm a psychology student, and... well, some of my classmates really don't have much intellectual curiosity. They just want to get the grades and get out. But it's hard to get into graduate school, and they're undergrads. I don't think a lot of them will be making it to a profession in clinical psychology, because while they can spend the sort of effort you have to expend to get the sky-high grades you need to get into clinical psychology graduate programs, they don't really enjoy learning. They'll probably get their undergrad degree and go into a field unrelated or peripherally related to psychology.

But if some of those non-curious people who don't like to think very much were to get that graduate degree and end up as psychologists and counselors, yeah, I could see them causing some serious problems. They're not bad people; they're just not people who like to think things through thoroughly--they're not natural scientists. A psychologist needs to be capable of--and enjoy--critical thinking and ongoing education. About three-quarters of the ones I've met do enjoy learning and thinking, but there are quite a few that don't. And those people, I can run circles around. It's sad when an undergrad like me knows more about psychology than a guy with a doctorate, but it can happen, if the undergraduate is an information sponge and the guy with the doctorate isn't really interested in learning. When I get somebody like that, I try to find somebody else. If I want to consult an expert about my weird neurology, I want them to actually be able to tell me things I don't know already, and to be willing to explain things to me and answer my questions instead of just expecting me to take it all on authority.

I was diagnosed with BPD as well, by the therapist who is in denial about my AS. They just give you one of the few disorders they happen to have studied at school.

Either that, or they'll give you the diagnosis that insurance companies deem the most serious. So that your insurance will continue to pay them many more hours to be your therapist.

Health insurances pay you nothing to treat ASD, just comorbid disorders. Because there is no "cure" for ASD and it's a lifelong condition, but they pay well for BPD and also schizophrenia.

Sycophancy?

Either that, or they'll give you the diagnosis that insurance companies deem the most serious. So that your insurance will continue to pay them many more hours to be your therapist.

A neighbor is doing an MA in Psychology, so she's fresh from school, and she told me they teach them that AS can be awakened or not, depending on environmental influences. I guess they believe that with enough psychotherapy they can get AS to go back to sleep... Interesting that, with zero knowledge of neurology, they are sure that a specific brain structure can be changed back and forth by means of talks...

That is very interesting.

A neighbor is doing an MA in Psychology, so she's fresh from school, and she told me they teach them that AS can be awakened or not, depending on environmental influences. I guess they believe that with enough psychotherapy they can get AS to go back to sleep...