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veuzi wrote

I went to a psychologist today, for the first time in my life. But despite telling them about an episode of suicidal thoughts that I projected online some years back, my several friends who have died to suicide, and my general disgust for society and work, all they seemed to be worried about was my drug and alcohol use. And they told me that the process of figuring out if I am on the autism spectrum or not involves me being institutionalized for longer than a week, without access to any drugs.

So I refused those terms and will probably never find out, "officially", if I'm too weird and fucked up for this life. But that's fine. I prefer to stay outside of the state's attention either way.

Cheers and good weekend to all. Next week I got work on a monday, so it's gonna be a blue one.

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tuesday wrote

Why would an autism diagnosis require institutionalization for longer than a week?

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veuzi wrote (edited )

I'm guessing it's because I told them about drugs and alcohol first and they would need me to be sober, so it would basically be a rehab stay and then an inquiry or evaluation.

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Fool wrote

I second that, my diagnosis was about an hour with a psychiatrist.

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tuesday wrote

we don't use ableist language here.

please edit your comment to remove it.

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rattledlove1139 wrote

Just want to thank you for reminding people this because it's so common people say those words as insult even if someone like me is right in front of them, slow and not always understanding or being able to express and not able to talk. Why is my brain equal to insult, of things that annoy or seem ridiculous, it should not be

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tuesday wrote

Thanks so much. It's something I take very seriously specifically because I want folks like you to know that you're valid and welcome in anarchist spaces.

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