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People who join the ranks of 'mental health professionals' are generally screwy people to start with. Either they are trying to figure out whats wrong with themselves in the start, or they want control over people. I haven't met any other types.

"You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time."
-Steven Wright
US comedian and actor (1955 - )

r_mc, who are you being sent to for assessment? Despite that your GP sounds more sure of herself than she should be for a group of disorders she doesn't have professional experience in, I'm glad she's at least referring you on for assessment.

Is this diagnostician you're going to someone who is very experienced in adult ASDs and your sex? If not, ask for a different referal from your GP because child diagnosticians are usually not experienced enough to spot an adult aspie.

Unfortunately I discovered that by experience. So don't make my same mistake.

Hehe...another of the psycologists, in the group I worked for, was only a tad better than the coke addict of the group. He was approaching fifty and ran off with his collegue who was about twenty years younger, leaving his wife of umpteen years and three kids. She used to come to the office (wifey) and yell at him and he'd come out and yell back. This always happened before/after hours. She didn't want him to lose patients thus losing her huge child support (just a guess). They would carry on like five year olds. And he was the leader of the group, the one everyone wanted. Oh, if they only knew!! ! The one Psychiatrist I worked for, who was loosely part of this group, had a daughter in a mental institution for anorexia. And he was a big name. If they can't manage their own lives and families, how can they tell us what to do? That's why I like CBT. It's not the type of therapy where a therapists own issues get in the way of helping you. They are more like teachers and it's more an education on how to think in less destructive ways. It's becoming very big in the US, but, then the US tends to think of disorders as more biological in nature than some other countries. I agree with this. I really don't think a trauma at five years old makes us disturbed for life, unless we witnessed a murder! JMHO

I wrote this about 15 years ago after several years of frustration with "Mental Health Professionals"


All that glitter is not gold,all that's green is not mold
but it is t the doctors who take her apart
they know her inner workings,by the sound of her fart
A salami aroma,a sound flat and dry
Just mention her "EGO" and she starts to cry

She hates her mother but loves her to death
We can tell about her childhood
from the cheese smell of her breath
We will give her a label,a tag for her toe
it's obvious by how her fingernails grow

Her dysfunctional family,the wounded child within
show clearly in her lopsided grin
She's in chronic denial,as show in her protest
at the enema we gave her to see how she digest
A normal person wouldnt mind a scientific probe
into their minor organs or their frontal lobe

When asked politely to remove it,for our better view
she relies"I'm using it,perhaps when I am through"
She simply grows sullen when stuck with a pin
becomes introverted when kicked in the shin
It has become quit clear to the experts at large
that she has much hostility to those who are in charge.

We are however,a patient lot and often repeat
how science has proven malajustment by the fungus on her feet
we maintain insanity and foot rot are in her family tree
only drugs and therapy can uproot heredity

She has the delusion her purple hair is just aesthetics
that only being forced to change cause her to feel "pathetic"
She readily admits her disdain for the status que
but claims there is some grace"in how a twisted tree grows"

The conclusion of the experts....she will not repent
she will not change her twisted ways after all the time we've spent
We believe further therapy would be a complete waste
On one who believes purple hair is"a matter of taste"

krex that is a nice poem.

Aspie94: One trauma probably doesn't screw someone up for life. Repeated trauma does. One incident may appear to set it off but the problem was already building or is reinforced afterwards.

freudian psychoanalysis is crap. Goup therapy probably won't help you right now. What you need is a thourough evaluation from a qualified neuropsychologist who has experience with ASD's. This person will take a developmental history from you and your family and probably also do some mental and psychological testing to see where your intelligence, executive function, etc is. Talk therapy with some half-assed councelor is not going to do anything, as it seems you've already decided. good luck.