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16 Jan 2023, 7:46 am

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I meant I never hear any mention of autistic being tortured for years on end in mental institutions in the UK but I do hear of it going on in care homes so it's not like they hide all these things from the media.
Because the former doesn't happen (or is vanishingly rare), but the latter does happen and far too often?
They're not equivalents.


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16 Jan 2023, 7:52 am

Abuse is abuse…..no matter the specific locale.



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16 Jan 2023, 8:07 am

If they “sectioned” everyone who talks about depression, etc., you would have very few people shopping at Sainsbury’s, or walking the high streets.

To say the least, there would be crisis-level overcrowding in mental hospitals.



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16 Jan 2023, 8:09 am

:lol: I would've been locked up years ago...


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16 Jan 2023, 8:49 am

I'm just living in paranoia in case having Asperger's on my medical records makes me a target for the government to pick on me and treat me like I'm severely disabled or insane. It's like it's a threat to my freedom.


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16 Jan 2023, 8:59 am

That's not going to happen, so try to stop worrying about it.


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16 Jan 2023, 10:51 am

It would cost too much, from the government’s viewpoint, for the government to want to institutionalize someone merely for having Asperger’s.



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16 Jan 2023, 11:23 am

Good grief they barely lock up murderers anymore, and mothers are sent home one day postpartum. They’re not coming after autistic people to round us up and collapse the system.


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16 Jan 2023, 12:41 pm

have read several times before .. that very often "Schizoid" personality is the MISDIAGNOSES of actual Autism .


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16 Jan 2023, 2:08 pm

I was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder at age 15.



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16 Jan 2023, 6:04 pm

Cornflake wrote:
That's not going to happen, so try to stop worrying about it.


Gonna pray that Cornflake is Right ..!
Gov . sure does some very stupid things in general . That seemed designed to only benefit the wealthy. 8O


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17 Jan 2023, 4:10 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder at age 15.

I got diagnosed with it at age 36.



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17 Jan 2023, 11:12 am

I've had to learn that "the diagnosis is not the person."

Autism is not the entirety of any person who has autism. The same goes for any diagnosis.



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17 Jan 2023, 2:11 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I've had to learn that "the diagnosis is not the person."

Autism is not the entirety of any person who has autism. The same goes for any diagnosis.


Strongly agrees with Kraftie.......but must admit in my time to seeing some people act quite severely in my opinion that might justify a diagnosis .


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