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dragonsanddemons
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16 Jun 2021, 6:46 pm
I wrote some stuff down for my therapist tomorrow. If he reads it and still tries to invalidate/dismiss/lessen-in-any-way stuff, I’m done. And I won’t bother trying to find someone else who might possibly take me seriously if somebody who’s known me for over a decade and who works with a lot of clients with ASD can’t do it. I might consider if I hadn’t already tried probably everything they might offer anyway (through other therapists and/or inpatient/intensive-outpatient hospitalization) with no success, but, well, I have. No point trying to put myself through probably multiple failed attempts to find someone who isn’t dismissive because if I’m capable of something sometimes, I obviously am all the time, and obviously I’m severely exaggerating when I say I really have tried pretty much everything and/or just go into new things already certain they’ll fail and don’t give them a good, honest, open-minded try 
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16 Jun 2021, 9:13 pm
Thank you. I was angry because he walked out on my whole family including my grandmother. He went into hiding to be alone because of social anxiety and major depression. No one explained where he went and I assumed he had died. He came back eight years later, after my grandmother had died from stress. The remaining family was furious so I decided I would never forgive him. He took his life three years later, on my birthday. I wish so much that ASD was better understood and that he had received mental health support instead of feeling ostracised. Same for my grandmother, really. They shouldn't have been a couple in the first place, but she got pregnant on their first date.
The stories I could tell.
16 Jun 2021, 9:17 pm
Thank you. I was angry because he walked out on my whole family including my grandmother. He went into hiding to be alone because of social anxiety and major depression. No one explained where he went and I assumed he had died. He came back eight years later, after my grandmother had died from stress. The remaining family was furious so I decided I would never forgive him. He took his life three years later, on my birthday. I wish so much that ASD was better understood and that he had received mental health support instead of feeling ostracised. Same for my grandmother, really. They shouldn't have been a couple in the first place, but she got pregnant on their first date.
The stories I could tell.
I know that must be hard to not think about on what’s supposed to be a happy day. I’d also be interested in hearing more stories. I have some interesting stories about my family as well.
16 Jun 2021, 9:21 pm
16 Jun 2021, 10:41 pm
I started doing that. Then suddenly... no appts
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