puzzlingbill
Definitely Someone
Ahhh! Found it!
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What web page? I haven't seen a link anywhere in this thread.I will check out the jerks web page now.
What web page? I haven't seen a link anywhere in this thread.
This is his website: Home, but outside of it and a few sites that seem to be the exact same thing, I can't actually find any information on him or this service.
You asked earlier what I meant when I said I've made more progress in the last 2 years (since figuring out the HFA thing) than in the previous 65. If it would be useful, I could send you a PM that you could show your parents, to explain this in more detail. When you said that your diagnosis changes everything, I understood immediately, because that's the reaction I had. I also know that it might be hard for your parents to understand the significance of this. The key thing for me is that it's no longer hopeless -- I have things to work on.Thank you so much for the responses. Sorry I've been so late to coming back to the thread, I'm so used to negative responses to these issues from people in authority I had a hard time coming back for fear of how wrong I'd be told I was. Imagine my shock when I saw this was featured! After reading your responses I started crying a little bit, the good type of crying. I gotta take another little break to get to responding to you all and pursuing your suggestions, thank you so much!
If somebody is a social worker, does that automatically mean their degree is in Social Work?
You asked earlier what I meant when I said I've made more progress in the last 2 years (since figuring out the HFA thing) than in the previous 65. If it would be useful, I could send you a PM that you could show your parents, to explain this in more detail. When you said that your diagnosis changes everything, I understood immediately, because that's the reaction I had. I also know that it might be hard for your parents to understand the significance of this. The key thing for me is that it's no longer hopeless -- I have things to work on.
It's vitally important that you have help learning how to deal with the unique challenges of your autism. Having someone yelling at you to stop being different is never going to help.
Ahhh! Found it!
If anybody has similar info regarding the US, I (and my wife) would be interested.
Of note - In the classic Star Trek episode "The City on The Edge of Forever", the character of Edith Keeler, played by Joan Collins, ran a soup kitchen out of a Christian Mission in pre-war New York. The character was, and still is described as a Social Worker, so our understanding of the term has clearly evolved even since the late 60s when that episode was made.
Lately the tactic has been to praise me, then immediately get away with something (eg: being loud around me). Isn't this what ABA training is?
"Sure, [my name]. Smoking weed, sleeping all day, leaving the house for a couple of minutes, playing video games and watching television all on your parents dime? And they are narcissist? Everyone is. Bottom line...earn your way through life and stop blaming your parents and making excuses. Everyone has challenges. Everyone."
Is there anyway you can move out of your parents house? Perhaps HUD? A roommate?
What you can do is press the delete/ignore button on this internet scammer. What ever happened to the legitimate professional "previous guy my parents had me see"? Your parents neglected helping you with this for 30 years. Then they finally got off their bottoms to start parenting and found someone qualified to help who was doing a good job. One year is not enough to resolve issues 3 decades in the making. Your whole family needs to go back to him and do what works to address the diagnosis and make appropriate adjustments so you can have a future, instead of coping out playing the blame game with an idiot who doesn't know the first thing about your condition, your situation or family therapy in general.
Maybe he thinks by showing you the "reality" of the situation, you'll be overcome with shame and then want nothing more to do everything they want you to do make it right.
Now your family therapist is ruining MY life!
I'm kidding, but I am sleeping thirteen minutes later than I would have if he wasn't alive.
Oh dear. This shows more about your parents than that man. Anyone who would fall for this man and take his advice has serious issues of their own. Are they being recruited by any cults lately?
Wow. I can't tell you what to do because they are desperate parents being taken for a ride. Maybe share your weed with them and enjoy each other's company for a little while before the curtain falls?
Eek...
His interests are aligned with getting you working and being a tax payer, not your personal health. (May or may not be the case, this is just based on the one selected quote you posted here)
Checked out the site and looks more like a life coach not a professional therapist.
If weed helps you stick with that. Refuse to see him and hand pick your own therapist? Since your parents got to him first he already has a skewed perception of you. Confirmation biases. Doesn't seem professional enough to override or recognize his own biases.