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Meltdown or crisis

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I told a few friends that I'm autistic yesterday. One works as a SEN teacher and told me that it was derogatory to say an autistic person is having a meltdown and they say in crisis instead. 

I say having a meltdown. In crisis doesn't really describe what happens to me. I also mainly SHUT down and need to retreat. Still not a crisis though. 

Thoughts on this?

She also tried to teach me about the spectrum not being a line but a circle. At this point I sarcastically thanked her for teacher me about a condition that I actually have... very patronising. 

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  • Meltdown to me. Even before I knew it could be Autism, I called them meltdowns. Chaos Cup fills up too much and boils over. I would also call a shutdown the same because it feels like that. I've gone into shutdown mode, waiting to recover.  'In Crisis' was the moment I had yesterday when I thought it would be so easy to just step off the train platform.

  • in reply to Loz

    u need to ring a suicidal helpline --- we have no choice but  to respond in this way unless u have recovered

  • in reply to aidie

    I'm ok now. Sorry, I take it quite seriously, but I also understand what the cause is so if I begin to have more thoughts along the same lines, I'll be getting signed off from work (work being the cause) and speaking to my counsellor. It's not panic stations at the moment. Just a situation at work that has been going on far longer than it should. I don't meant panic you.

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  • in reply to aidie

    I'm ok now. Sorry, I take it quite seriously, but I also understand what the cause is so if I begin to have more thoughts along the same lines, I'll be getting signed off from work (work being the cause) and speaking to my counsellor. It's not panic stations at the moment. Just a situation at work that has been going on far longer than it should. I don't meant panic you.

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