turd in my singlet posted:

Thirding the "if I didn't have a good support system (rich liberal family) I would have died under a bridge years ago" thing. I've been following this thread for a while but haven't posted yet since it's kind of a hard topic for me and one I don't really know how to talk about. I was diagnosed in 2016 after the therapists at an addiction IOP program thought I was on the spectrum, which validated my mom's beliefs so she sought out a specialist psychologist to diagnose me. Took like an afternoon of testing to come up with diagnoses for autism and dyslexia.


Has anyone actually had good experiences with therapy for ASD? The two "specialist" therapists I've tried were garbage. One was convinced that I NEEDED to be on medication, despite me telling her I'd had bad experiences with meds and that I felt my lovely moods were directly attributable to my inability to socialize normally. We literally never addressed anything I felt was important and eventually ended up with me shutting down during our sessions while she doubled down on trying to bully me to see a psychiatrist until one day she unceremoniously "fired" me as a client.

The next guy was a quack who literally had a chiropractor working out of his office. He was ASD (Asperger's) but had overcome his condition well enough to get an MSW, get married, and otherwise get on with his life which was cool, but I never felt like I made any progress with him either. He was insistent that I was supposed to "lead the sessions" but I had no idea what to loving talk about and felt like uh isn't this your job dipshit? That was two years ago and I haven't pursued any therapy since.