Getting along with psychiatrist/psychologist to confirm diagnosis
So I posted last month about being diagnosed but still have to get it confirmed and in the process have started to overdose on medical appointments of people trying to tell me what's wrong with me. The latest is a psychiatrist at the school clinic giving me the standard crap about me having a "chemical imbalance" based on a recent mini-crisis I had after the aspergers diagnosis. I luckily did find a woman of color who is an open-minded psychiatrist and is willing to see me as a person, but she is skeptical about aspergers so I still am going to a clinical psychologist with all these annoying tests to fill out to see whether or not ASD fits.
I'm not really sure what the question is or if anyone can help but basically I'm just sick of the labels, sick of these narrow-minded bigoted professionals and dispairing of whether or not I can work with this system in a way that makes me feel comfortable and not feel even more disempowered than I started.



This seems to be the most frustrating part of being recognized as an ASD woman. Then we ask ourselves, "why a label?" Then again, we do need a starting point at times to self identify when all our life we've been denied so much do to false diagnosis. Such a mess, and more sorry to hear it has touched you in this tangled web.
Best to you in the road ahead. Keep us posted.