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I hear a lot of talk from therapists about """high functioning""" autistic patients intellectualizing their way out of effective therapy and making it fail them.
and I don't know what to tell you other than that's an industry problem, not an autism one, at that point
Weird how therapists understand that it's their job to either provide therapy that's effective for the client, or acknowledge they can't provide it right now and refer the client elsewhere... except when it comes to autistic clients. I guess.
honestly the worst are the ones who are autistic but don't know it, so they keep misreading you EITHER WAY you try and present things
Ugh, that probably explains some number of negative interactions I’ve had (not just with therapists).
what you've described is exactly my biggest gripe with therapy. the fault is never on the professionals, but on me, the dude who's supposed to just believe that therapy is the solution to all my problems! unless it isn't, then it's my fault for not believing the process and " not being open to change" as i've been told several times
therapists and blaming their own shortcomings on their patients, name a more iconic duo
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Context: I’m autistic and also an aspiring therapist, and also a pretty serious Buddhist.
I think the biggest tension in therapy for most people is that even with the best possible therapist, the only thing that can happen in therapy that will make things better is for the client to change. Therapists know this, of course, and frequently have opinions about what changes the client “should” be making, and in the case of neurotypical therapists and autistic clients, those opinions are frequently wrong.
But I think also that autistic people typically have a history of people being wrong about what changes we “need” to make (because they don’t understand what things are easy or hard to change) so it’s easy to fake ourselves out and convince ourselves that no changes are possible, or desirable. And that process of faking ourselves out often takes place through intellectualization, because we tend to be good at that. So that’s something to keep in mind as a possibility.
(I tend to be sympathetic to the point of view of Narrative Therapy, which is strongly rooted in a postmodern critique of the medical establishment: clients are the experts on their own experience, and the role of the narrative therapist is to facilitate the client’s creativity and expertise in solving their own problems.)
(gently) right, but that's still illustrating an industry/field problem. If therapy as a field can't handle 2% of the population while still accepting them as patients, they need to change something imo.
Especially in the age of therapy being a luxury thanks to anyone good with this stuff even remotely, not taking insurance, in the US.
