Published on 12, July, 2020
Diagnosed with mild high-performance Aspergers aged 60 in 2015, I need to sort out adolescent complex trauma caused before Aspergers was known of. IQ 153-4, top career, dominant.
I have the tools to handle it, having consoled a simple instance, but can't find a CBT counsellor with both trauma and high-perf Aspie experience to monitor what will effectively be an adult form of CATT. Therefore, I need to extend the knowledge of a trauma-aware CBT specialist, per my NAS supervisor-counsellor.
Which takes me into needing a write-up on high-performance intellect. It's all very well saying we think differently, but let's get specific.
Hi Rahere
May I ask how much you understand about your own Asperger's? Are you aware of all the subtle and different ways it affects you in your daily life? 5 years is not actually very long to get your head around all the ways where you suddenly realise how different we are to *normal* people.
May I also ask how social are you? Do you have family and friends around you?
My male engagement was traumatised in diagnosis, and my female when feminists tore up, quite gratuitously, my activities, quite recently. Given I was blocked from Mensa by the Tavistock when I was 12, I did meet a bright lass, we married, cancer took her early. I have a daughter who lives with me, and that's it.
I was a singer, I understand attunement thoroughly. I just don't want to be attuned to a world which discriminates against me and my kind.