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1 year ago

Recently, I visited a psychologist with my mom and after talking to her for a few minutes, she explained to me and my mom that I have most autistic traits. Afterwards when I was in the car, my mom told me how she didn't like the psychologist very much because she gave me a note about being autistic after thirty minutes of talking to me (which I agree, she should have taken a more careful approach). However, my mom is really uneducated about autism and when I say uneducated I mean, like, REALLY uneducated. To help with my point, she's one of the people who say things like "but you don't look autistic!" Or "everyone's a little bit autistic!" So I'm weary about her judgement. I'm not sure what to think at this point. I also told her about how I think I might have ADHD as well but she told me she doesn't think I have ADHD because she never observed signs of it (which is problematic in itself since I'm quite sure I have been masking my traits of both autism and ADHD for my whole life). But then, she goes to say that she thinks she might have ADHD and I got confused because I wasn't sure if she was serious or not but I think she was being serious.


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