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Autistic Ang's avatar

Your "Aside" is spot-on! I used to work as a drug and alcohol counselor and I'd have clients come in and say they missed a MH appointment and were kicked out of the agency. Even people who'd been seeing their therapist for like three years. I hate unfairness, injustice, whatever you want to call it. Hate it! Too many people believe that punishing someone for a mistake will keep them from making it again. It's gross, negligent, incompetent. So thank you for saying that!

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We sound so alike (although I wasn't brave enough to go to uni). I've now been referred, by my psychotherapist, for a formal autism diagnosis after receiving a diagnosis of BPD/EUPD, PTSD and Autistic traits. I am now 59 and starting 2 years of twice weekly therapy for the BPD which may or may not be appropriate if I get the formal autism diagnosis.

I've spent most of my adult life in some sort of therapy or another. I have 2 autistic children (1 diagnosed formally the other informally) both of whom have managed to live a normal life. The eldest is happily married and the youngest is off to Cambridge in October to read Linguistics (apparantly it's a popular subject for autistic people).

It's so frustrating how long these things take for NHS therapy to start but I was relieved to get a diagnosis of something. I look forward to reading more of your journey.

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