Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello
I have already posted about my son, who has suffered at the hands of pyschotropic medications and as one
of you said its going to take for my son to gain himself back.
I suppose what I would like to know is when the Mental Health team spotted which was not Psychotic but Autistic
what things would have stood out to them that might have looked strange hence my son ended up in a Childrens
mental health hospital on the very drug that a GP prescribed for him for anxiety , Olanzapine, and after 3 days of
taking it he said to me "mum I can't take this anymore, irs making me lose my memory" now for him to state this
it must have been a real confusion going on with the drug, it wasn't simply , "I can't remember what you said just now" or
I can't remember what I ate for dinner last night"
My names Julie if any of you remember me from the other day, and I still dont know how this forum works??? :)
Everything technical I fumble through. Thanks for reading
There is this inability to understand what one has not been exposed to or cannot perceive.
This is why MOST professionals who are not Autistic, ADHD or 'on the spectrum' (if you prefer) cannot possibly understand internally how we experience consciousness.
I am beyond irritated that Autistics are not being given even a micro-dose of anti-anxiety medication! Instead, Beta Blockers or Anti-Psychotics, which are USELESS. The issue is with GABA, not the occipital lobe or other regions in the brain we use to process, reason and relate with the world around us (which is what anti-psychotics will prohibit access to).
Please give everyone you are dealing with (nurses, assistants, doctors, etc.) a physically printed copy of this paper: https://t.co/SkgDzU97lz (it will download).
Autistics do not Filter incoming signals. They feel everything-all-at-once, which can slow down our ability to make sense of or understand the world which then slows down our ability to TRANSLATE what we're experiencing with forms of verbal communication.
The main issue here being, the Neuro-Normative brain uses the brain differently to reason and perceive. So these blocks may work perfectly well for them. This Majority brain will filter out unwanted signals. It might simply use language and signs to reason, meaning that the use of words, or creating a word-based mantra, will impact how they understand a thing, a sort of hypnosis as it were. Autistics don't use these compartments / lobes in the brain the same.
So these drugs may work on Non-Autistic individuals because they might be blocking regions not often used to perceive and recall. I'm trying not to be too technical.
This is ALL part of the Double Empathy problem and its incredible impact on autistic neuro-wiring.
Wish Doctors looked at things like this, thanks for this way of looking things. My son's brain is right now very confused, more so off meds at the moment and so hope the brain is going to mend back to the supberb Autistic brain it was before