"You Need To Laugh More"

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Are you fed up with therapists who want to "fix" you? I posted a blog about it.

Here it is:

http://dwarren57.wordpress.com/2011/02/ ... augh-more/

Your therapist has no understanding of AS, and he is indeed doing more damage than good.

When you gain enough power over your life to choose your own therapist, you should do so.

Change is very hard, and our threshold for change is limited.

IMO a good therapist would encourage you to change just enough to be able to function in society. To evolve from "scary serial killer at a party" to "shy or not very social guy at a party". You will not "laugh more", but you will learn a social smile that lets other people know you're not out to murder them. It's a compromise.

But he will not try to change you into himself.

You'll still not go to concerts if you don't like crowds, and you will still be an introvert. And that should be okay as long as you can live with it.

Yeah that would be an example of a terrible therapist that should not have a license. I would find a diffrent or just quit going.

I think this falls under the category of "everyone is different" and needs a therapist that meshes well with them. While that therapist may such for you, he may work well for others.