Published on 12, July, 2020
I ask because in the past I've sought support and the professionals always refer me to mental health, which in the beginning yes I wondered if I was mentally unwell but in that time my traits have never changed and they've given me several medications and it never once actually did anything.
So I think I can now safely say all my problems are autism related and as we all know this can't be treated!
I wish the doctors would take out more time to read up on autism rather than keep trying to dismiss it and treat it. I've been through almost 4 years of them trying to cure my autism and it's caused a great deal of trauma for me along the way.
I feel like I need some support with my autism but I don't know where to go or who to talk to......my doctors keep referring me to mental health and I don't want to go that route again.
You have just summed up my situation except I am with mental health at the moment (and I think it is a waste of all our times).
I keep being told to go out and socialise (I don't want to because at the moment 1 hour of being with people or shopping means several days of shutdown)
If only I could get ASC focused help.
"I keep being told to go out and socialise"
I have tried CBT twice and this is literally the message I was given both times. They couldn't comprehend why my anxiety was not decreasing with repeated exposure. I have given up on any form of practical therapy and my fiance & I are just trying to muddle through by ourselves.
(I was late-diagnosed at 35, so I missed out on receiving support as a child, which seems to be the only way to get any type of ongoing support with being autistic).