Noticed any professional 'ignorance' about Asperger's?

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They've gotta make a living you know.

It's the 'borderline' and 'kinda' stuff that really sucks in the big bucks.

Come on now we all know that the movies are real don't we?

Of course garyww. The real solution is to arrange for the 'professional' concerned to see Mozart and the Whale.

I thought they all already did that.

You guys have been REALLY helpful, and given me a 'new', more confident vantage point. I am grateful for your shared insights....I might write my psychiatrist a letter, explaining some of the reasons why I don't agree with his co-worker, the psychologist's opinion.......it does seem strange, but I've had 'diagnosis problems' before, back when I had to diagnose my daughter with Rett Syndrome, once again....the doctors couldn't 'see it'....and then I realized, as some of you imply.......that if you don't LIVE IT....intimately....you wouldn't, even as a psychologist, be capable of making a definititive diagnosis. I had to self diagnose yet another time.....but it took ten years of no doctor EVER 'seeing' my problem. I had to suggest it to them......and before I reached one who believed me, the one before him told me I wasn't in real pain while I was in the middle of a full blown gall bladder attack which lasted for days. The health care tech that did my sonogram when I finally got diagnosed....said she had never seen so many stones so packed. I went through attacks for years because no doctor paid attention. I wonder if it is because of my Asperger's that my doctor didn't find it.....I almost feel like she thinks I'm a nutcase, and like everything that would go wrong with me is 'in my head'....so she didn't give it a serious study. Thank-You for your reinforcing comments......I like the way people think on *this* planet.

Sola

When I first proposed that I have Asperger's, my psychiatrist told me that Autistics don't crave friendship, whereas I do. Autistic individuals may usually not care for friendship, but Aspies generally want close companionship, we just have a hard time getting it. I didn't get into a debate with him, but he respected my decision and set me up with an appointment to see an AS specialist who can give me a diagnosis.

I have said this before in another thread but, this sort of professional ignorance is beginning to disgust me. I don't always trust someone like a psychologist who does it as a job and definitely who bases things off of a movie.

The best psychologist in my mind is someone who takes time to get inside people's heads or try to see how people feel from their point of view. To diagnose something, you need to more where or with the thing you are diagnosing.

If you are true to your self, and are not afraid of being diagnosed with even something undesirable or "bad", and it is not for personal gain or to make people feel sorry for you and you see it from every angle, then the best person to diagnose you is you.

The psychiatrist I went to said I didn't have Asperger's because I looked at him in the eye. He also admitted to not knowing much about Asperger's. I found a psychologist that knew about Asperger's and was diagnosed by him.