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Update to self advocacy-Mental Health

Hellbell

Well that went down like a lead balloon.

nervous as heck telling the MH coordinator that I don't get feelings or emotions, that I had to be honest with myself that I had been masking as I was scrambling to meet expectations like we do when confronted with NT's and he gets all defensive? Throws it back at me saying well it was led by you, denied saying certain things to me, (I photographic memory me) and he just wouldn't accept the concept of alexithymia or understand neurodiverse processing...so i handed him the new strategy and NAS mental health update booklet, said there's training on the NAS website if there is funding for it, and left.

I feel insulted I think? that i know myself better than anyone else and he wasn't really listening to what I was saying, and started with the same old patter that every session started with...if it was led by me it would be autisticly modified not neurotypical led.

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  • I have a therapist with a one track mind, she gets fixated on an idea and will not let it go. She has that stereotype tone of voice that makes her sound patronising. She's not great, but better than the previous whose attitude was you had to do, or talk about what he told you, regardless of how upsetting or difficult it might be. A case of do as you're told.

  • in reply to Pikl

    I'm sorry to hear that. It can be very distressing when confronted with a bad practitioner. The NAS have just released new guidelines for MH Workers who are working with autistic clients. It remains to be seen whether any of them will make the effort to read and follow them.

  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕

    I gave him the booklet link and new strategy outline before I left. Hope he reads them, I tried to educate him but I got the impression he was trying to justify his methods separating my autism and that cannot be done. In earlier sessions I tried to explain its autism first then trauma that overlays it as trauma to us is processed differently he insisted it was trauma that made me like this….due to vulnerability and naivety in social situations….how many auties fall into this NT theory does more damage than help.

  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕

    Agreed. I think I dented his ego pointing out he didn’t see the masking, not my place to educate him like I tried. I think he was out of his depth.

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