#aughhhh i'm gonna have to do so much processing about how the '''''g1fted''''' label shot me in the foot so many times tho | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

viksalos · 8 months

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in about 5 sessions with my therapist we went from "you can't possibly be autistic because you're not like the nonverbal high support needs teenage boys i worked with in the early 2000s," to me digging up my childhood psychological records from the early 2000s and convincing her, to her presenting my case to her supervisor and her supervisor being like "yeah you had an undiagnosed autistic client on your hands and she needs to be transferred to someone qualified to handle that" lmao

#text #only reason i stuck with her after figuring it out is bc my psychiatrist works at the same practice and he *is* qualified lol #that said i don't think she was being malicious abt this. like i would be more angry at her if she *still* refused to believe me #after all the evidence i dug up #only thing she's guilty of is not keeping up with the research in this particular subfield of her field #which; in fairness; is no longer her specialty #aughhhh i'm gonna have to do so much processing about how the '''''g1fted''''' label shot me in the foot so many times tho #with so many professionals who insisted i couldn't possibly be having any associated difficulties bc of it #(not to mention the societal narrative that ex-''g1fted'' kids are just privileged (fair) and whining about fake problems (not fair))#and set me up for so much systemic abuse that i can't even be mad at a single person for bc they all thought they were doing their best #but the good news is i can process that with New Therapist lol!

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