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I came here years ago and only for a few months before deciding not to come back— the male therapist I spoke to clearly isn’t very well versed about how to speak to autistic patients or in general to female patients, especially those who are SA survivors. He attempted to question my autism I am actually diagnosed with (since childhood!) and spend a session with me nitpicking my autism traits comparing them to the traits in the DSM. When I wasn’t even seeing him for help with autism. Yet he stated suspecting I had borderline personality disorder, which nothing wrong with those who have that but I have never been diagnosed with that by anyone else nor has anyone else suggested I had it. But he couldn’t believe I have autism which I have an actual diagnosis of! Oh and he also asked if I truly believe my sexuality (as a queer woman) is legitimate or if I just believed in it because of being SA’ed by my first boyfriend (which I had told him about, but again, also not what I was even seeing him for) 🙃

Horrible place for neurodivergent folks. Tell them your triggers upfront as a survivor of Applied Behavioral Analysis, they ignore you and begin plastering them at the front of group discussion. You make them aware, they tell you to ignore them. It's like posting concepts from "pray the gay away", but for autism.