• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

Hello.

That's great news, a competent medical provider. Yes, l also went thru emotional neglect involving my mother. She left me for hours alone by myself. She chose not to deal with me as a toddler. It's been a very long path to be on, but it's apparently my path, and l have been chosen for this path. l go back and visit how incredibly bored l was as a toddler locked in a room with nothing to do.
I'm sorry to hear. That doesn't sound nice at all. It's also crazy how incredibly common it is for people to have children who don't deserve children, and abuse them whether intentionally or not. You grow up thinking everyone else has a normal family, without realizing there's probably equal amounts of families that are completely dysfunctional and causing tons of trauma to the next generation. I'm sorry you were one of them.

I basically was a recluse and spent almost all of my time alone in my bedroom as well. My family was not engaging/didn't make me feel comfortable engaging with them (did not realize this at the time as I had zero introspection at that age) and my social anxiety was basically at phobia levels. And I got no help, because my mom apparently wasn't even aware of my issues. I think I kept literally everything to myself really well and was trying the entire time to be and act normally, because that's just how I was. It never occured to me until my 20s I think , that therapy was even a thing and that I might need it. Wish I had gotten help much earlier, but it is what it is.

And yes I'm so grateful to have a good mental health provider. I had an absolutely terrible string of providers that completely broke my trust in the system. The very first therapist I ever had was a narcissist and took full advantage of me emotionally. He fecked me up for a very long time. And every therapist I saw since then seemed to try their best but always completely missed the mark, and at this point I've realized that it's psychiatrists who are actually really, really helpful to me. Therapists basically not at all. Totally different level of expertise and approach to everything. I'm glad I know that now.
 

New Threads

Top Bottom