Words can be deceptive

#mentalillness #ActuallyAutistic Words typed online can be deceptive. Not in a telling lies kind of way, but in the picture they can paint of a person.Being online, with its heavy tilt towards verbal skills,plays to my strengths. That me is very different from the me that struggles with practical tasks IRL. The one that needs quite a lot of support to maintain an adequate level of independent living.

I don’t doubt there are others like me. The grown up version of children who nowadays would be called 2e. The mental health profession often isn’t friendly and supportive to us. It can be quite condemning and hostile.Its interactions with us are predominantly verbal, and our strengths are centre stage. When we then struggle when non-verbal/practical skills are needed, it’s often seen as contrariness, passive aggressiveness etc .Or any other term that might be used to describe a person as having a ‘character defect’. It’s one of psychiatry’s and also psychology’s weakest areas. It often fails people like us. It, without doubt, is an area where they need to up their game.

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I’m sorry services have failed you. But psychiatry is like any other medical discipline. It fails some people.

I also do not do well IRL interactions

So many stressors placed on in person communication that I don’t bother to try and subscribe to any more

I also feel I have character defects and whether I have some sort of personality disorder

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