The Funniest Thing a Shrink Ever Said to You

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"You're problems are a result of your parents projecting onto you"

"These drugs will cure your problems"

Perhaps he was simply suggesting that people need to be 'baked' in order for them to be one's friends...

Well I use a crisis hot line, Ingriham hot line here in Portland ME ,looking for help. I said to the woman I am autistic. The woman said no you don't, you don't sound like you have Autism. So I started to laught and say how does and autistic person sound? It seems so funny and madning I just hung up.

Me: You see I have a hard time with imagining things.....

Later......
Me: I just don't see how I can like someone who isn't as smart as me.
Shrink: Just pretend your another species, and learn that the other species is not as smart.
Me: Ok, lets analise this; Do I really want a friend in a competing species? And one more thing, I'm reality bound.

WOW, so she ended up helping you to relax! They say laughter is the best medicine

WOW, and I thought I was ignorant of autism! Some of you guys (you "soon" as well), just sound so normal(Though I think my understanding WAS kind of accurate according to pre 1981 definitions). Of course, surprisingly, AS explains all my life, and I now know better. If I answered the phone, I would have waited and let you continue.

BTW What did you think a crisis hotline person could do to help a problem you had with autism? Just curious.

WOW! That is one of the dumbest yet! That would be like someone like me(I'm a computer consultant) saying "I've been reading up on computers for this assignment today. I have discovered that they come in two flavors. Some are IBM compatible, and some are MAC compatible. Which kind is this?"

That is funny because it would indicate ignorance even after admitting you have studied on the subject quickly for a task you have no idea about.

"consultant" Which is it?
They IBM compatible I guess
"Consultant" Where's the mouse?
They There is NO mouse!
"Consultant" HOW DO YOU RUN WINDOWS?
They "WE DON'T!"
"Consultant" Why not?
They "It's plain old UNIX!"
"Consultant" WHAT!?
They It's an RS/6000
"Consultant" So it is MAC compatible?
They It is an I.B.M. RS/6000 and is IBM RS/6000 compatible!
"Consultant" Then let's boot up windows so I can install this printer driver to fix your UNIK!
They (Hands up in air) Get the @#$%^&*( OUT OF HERE!



The REALLY sad part is that I just realized I actually had this happen! In trying to get details on how to program an HP printer for color, the "tech support" guy INSISTED that I install the windows printer driver! The system was running UNIX, and the printer routines couldn't use a driver and **I** was asking how to use the printer directly.

That ONE statement pegs her as an IDIOT! If you must have hurt them for them to hurt you, then they must have hurt you for you to hurt them. Why should either person apologize?

Things are NEVER so cut and dry to a third party, and THAT is why we have courts!

Gee, lets let all the murderers out of jail because they were all killed by those that they killed!

Were you a minor? He could probably get his license pulled for saying such things to a minor.

Mr shrink one told me that in college he lived in the city and he used to talk to himself and twitch on the subway so that people would give him a little space, and then he got a giant white rat that he carried around with him and people left him alone.

Also once I started imitating him and he told me that he didn't like it when people imitated him because he "used to have an inferiority complex", but I kept copying him and for a while I think he was really nervous and upset, like he wanted to crawl into a hole and hide for a day or two. It was hilarious.

According to her, no. Because I hurt people due to my trauma; they hurt me only because I hurt them. And others hurting me because of their own issues does not count because they're not in therapy with her.

I am trying to wrap my head around this one. The therapist is a nut to even think that.

2ukenkerl wrote"WOW, so she ended up helping you to relax! They say laughter is the best medicine"[/quote]

No it didn't help. I was just left wondering how I sounded.

2ukenkerl wrote "WOW, and I thought I was ignorant of autism! Some of you guys (you "soon" as well), just sound so normal(Though I think my understanding WAS kind of accurate according to pre 1981 definitions). Of course, surprisingly, AS explains all my life, and I now know better. If I answered the phone, I would have waited and let you continue. "

2ukenkerl wrote "BTW What did you think a crisis hotline person could do to help a problem you had with autism? Just curious.[/quote] "

Well I was looking for help to get info on where I could go get a case worker and also along with suicide help.

somewhere someone suggested they shoul all see a shrink themselves -
not sure about that;
most of 'm, as part of their education, do have to get themselves analyzed

come to think of it, that's what might have got 'm shrunk in the first place

anyway; i think it is simply because of psychobabble intolerance and unadulterated attribution&projection fobia that i managed to stay away from the mental health system

not sure whether i'm glad or sad not having been properly seen [to] at an earlier age; they might have done all sorts of irrepairable damage (as i can see the logic in their thinking and one does always have to consider the marvellous concept of denial

Funniest thing on denial (from IBM commercial a couple of years ago):
you're in denial
no, i'm not
see...

That's a pretty horrible thing for a mental health professional to say. He/She should be ashamed.

Hey, maybe it does...

Sometimes a shrink can be perceptive. It's rare, but it happens. Sometimes a shrink can also say stuff that's facetious - that's less rare - and does happen - a lot.