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Recent content by ladykayak

  1. ladykayak

    Does Your Employer Know You’re On the Spectrum?

    I think diagnosis and disclosure are double-edged swords and so much depends on the response from others. in my last-last place of work (ostensibly a mental-health environment) the harrassment and abuse I had from colleagues was so bad my union advised me to contact the police. In my new job...
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    Aspergers and psychoanalytic ideas

    Ah there's more to it than the pub-version of Freud most people hear.....it does get a bad rap but most of our cultural assumptions are built on freud's work. He's controversial yes but a genius...
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    Aspergers and psychoanalytic ideas

    I'm on the Lacanian wavelength myself....
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    Would you accept a cure?

    Hell no. It's not an illness but just the quality of being fabulous and interesting. Majority don't work this way so class it as a disability. "Cured" would mean "reduced"
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    Aspergers and psychoanalytic ideas

    Hell yes, that's why analysis takes so long....years! Different schools again have different ideas about what a "final analysis" looks like, and even if there is such a thing....I'm noting links in my various "obsessions" about disasters, safety, death....am only just starting the process but...
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    Aspergers and psychoanalytic ideas

    Ah, I"m totally on the psychoanalytic wavelength so I will disagree with a fair bit of that! To be honest there are different schools within psychoanalysis so it's not a case of "psychoanalysis says this means/stands for that" - freud very clear that structures of meaning are highly-personal...
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    Aspergers and psychoanalytic ideas

    Well of course...but it's what demarcates what is "interesting" to each person that I guess I'm starting to pull apart. Why one thing and not the other if you see what I mean.
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    Aspergers and psychoanalytic ideas

    ...I'm training as a psychoanalyst after having worked in mainstream psychiatry for a number of years. As part of this I'm having my own analysis sessions - the topic of my aspergers diagnosis has obviously come up and we spoke about my various obsessions over the years - public information...
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    No idea to be honest. I do think we're all so much more than brain-data so I'm always dissatisfied by those kind of explanations...
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    I speak as an aspie and a singer.....work in psychiatry and just aware of neuro-myths...
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    ....am not sure that singing can be reduced to neurological factors to be honest!
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    Discredited by neurological research....the idea that right-hand brain = creativity and left-hand brain = logic isn't true but one of those neuro-myths that pervades....
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    ....the left-brain/right-brain thing's totally discredited.....not a thing...
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    Yep. Concerned me greatly too. My workplace are fabulous about it which gave me the courage to try and access post-diagnostic support (and make use of this resource too) but they've been terrible and made me feel like I've exposed myself pointlessly.
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    Feeling like a fraud...

    I've also found that being high-functioning/doing well 9/10 means that people don't believe me. Have recently had a horrendous experience with the NHS, trying to get some post-diagnostic support (a while after diagnosis) in a different health trust from the one I was diagnosed in. Basically...
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