Asbergers treatment?

[pkbarbiedoll]

Hi, I'm 37, mtf, living full time..  I'm socially awkward, always feel like i don't fit in anywhere.. never been dianosed with asbergers but meet a lot of the criteria.

So my question is what do they do to treat people with asbergers?  Padded cell? Lobotomy??  Is there anything they can do at all or do we learn to live with it?

thanks so much

Comments

The same as any other person- like a person.

[capybyra]

The underlying answer to be handled before any other questions is making certain that we impress upon all in our lives- caregivers and others equally is that we are people. No other criteria dare presume to usurp that. And if someone in our lives has a problem in dealing with that fact then we might reconsider how much impact we let them have on our lives! Yes, we cannot choose family,lovers, or many others that "just come to be" part of our lives. We CAN choose how much impact any actions or feelings they cause in or for us we allow to happen. The concept of "diagnosed" frankly puts my teeth upon edge. AsIf we are dehumanised to treatment the way one would a disease or malignancy. It's one of the lovely tricks psych warfare wages upon those it can. Consider it akin to a churchly doctrine of "orginal sin" That being a proclamation of our being inescapably damned for merely being whatever we ARE. Re-examine the concept of any daring to call themselves "normal" and others as "different" where that "DIFFERENT" is in an all caps stigma usually reserved for crimes or deadly incurable illness. Gee- are perhaps they afraid they will "catch" whatever makes us do or think divergently from them? I need to supress my soapbox rant mode I guess. But it's to some relevance in what you speak of!

While I supress a giggle at the implications of 'passing amongst the NT's- it duly underscores an angle on our lives we aspies may have an advantage over the NT's in. The taxonomical character of an NT inherently includes major insecurities about social status that WE aspies often are blessedly self insulated from. Oh, some of us have programmed ourselves an analog to the NT world's concerns about "passing" and "how we fit in" mostly from self defense.

But do we need to protect our selves from ourselves in this?

So, embrace whatever makes you feel comfortable.
Be kind to those who sadly may never understand.
Humor them in respecting their conventions and customs asking only mutual respect for doing so in good faith- to not dehumanise them!
But NEVER surrender to their demands that WE become like THEM!