Players with disabilities, represent & share your feels!

[SerLuke]

Autism is the new ADHD/ADD in the fact its way over diagnosed. There doesn't have to be a diagnosis for everything. Some people are not social butterflies and its okay. I'll link you to a study later on that said (paraphrasing of course) that with the rise of the itnernet and online communities Autism has increased as well. You have to learn to socialize like anything else in life. And when people shut themselves in to play video games/watch anime/ and not hang around people? That causes social ignorance. Autism is very real, and very debilitating, but what used to be called Aspergers? now ASD? Was too common to make sense.

Hey I really don’t think this is the place to be discussing this, this is a thread for people who have disabilities and want to support each other, not debate who or who doesn’t have autism

[EusisLandale]

Hey I really don’t think this is the place to be discussing this, this is a thread for people who have disabilities and want to support each other, not debate who or who doesn’t have autism

Addressing the fact that some diagnoses are handed out like candy is support.
Some doctors are just awful and hand out whatever's trendy so they can get you on whatever meds will get them good money or keep you coming in for therapy for nothing and ultimately cause far more harm than good. I spent a good chunk of my childhood getting passed around between doctors and they'd come up with some BS to stuff me on a pill or two, then the next would give a diagnosis for the side effects of the pills, keep me on them, and add on a few more. Eventually I was on so much conflicting drugs that I snapped and tried to kill my family, spent quite a bit of time locked up in a psych ward, got put on even more pills, before finally getting a doctor who looked at all this and just had me quit all of it immediately.
At this point all I've got is manageable schizophrenia, but I'd still be better off if they hadn't broken me in the first place. Can't say if the damage helped that develop or not, but I have a hard time trusting doctors anymore and avoid medicating things unless my life is on the line.