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View submission: Ever been scapegoated with a mental health condition you didn't even have?
Oh boi yes. My mum pressures me for 2 years now to get an Autism diagnosis because:
- I hate social Contact
- As a kid I used to be super weird (and oddly hypersexual starting from age 4/5)
- I used to be in my "own world" a lot. And I could do stuff for hours on end (primarily drawing or playing with dolls.
- I selfharmed (starting from age 3)
There were more stuff she pointed out and I told her "Have you ever considered that I was Abused as a kid? (all I remember was the domestic violence at home + the CSA later at life from age 11-13)
She denies it and gets super furious whenever I mention this..which means there must be a certain truth to my words. I also told her "If it's true that I have Autism, I insist for you to get tested as well!
I had a very similar issue with a therapist who insisted that I had BPD because I still had issues with self-harming in adulthood. Turns out at a later diagnosis, that it was actually PTSD all along!
There's nothing here!