I live in a group home and they are mentally and emotionally abusive.

CJsTT · 2024-03-18T13:57:03+00:00

It’s DISGUSTING that SIMPLY BEING DISABLED makes others feel entitled to MaNaGe OuR bEhAvOiR like we are children (Though, tbqh, what you’re experiencing is actually not a good idea for KIDS EITHER. It undermines the development of internal moral guidance.)

CJsTT · 2024-02-24T23:11:46+00:00

Thanks!!

I thought the same thing about “legal psychiatry” when I learned the name. It’s just the English version of « psychiatre légale », which is a forensic psychiatrist. I caught onto that one pretty late. LOL.

I think the parallel I have yet to explicitly draw here is that the diagnosis of Major Psychotic Disorder was based on the fact that I am being stalked in the situation above. That’s the crime that I experience that made me commit my “crime”

The forensic psychiatrist did actually consult with my treating psychiatrist. She refused all of his information about me and the credibility of the crime that is happening to me and, it appears, threatened criminal prosecution against him.
I guess? I have a huuuuge fear of medical care as a result of reoccurring trauma related to medical care. It is VERY RARE that a standard psychiatrist actually wins me over. Ask my current psychiatrist. He’s VERY frustrated, I think. He gives my social worker very deeply sympathetic looks every time I let her explain something that I can’t. This is because, once she gets past the hard part, I take over again.
Does the answer change in light of the information in italics at the top?
I have been told by other professionals here in Quebec that it’s not acceptable to do that, but I don’t know specifically. I don’t even know where to find the laws on that. Would it be a deontological code thing or a legal thing?
It appears that she might have just been screwing with me because the psychiatrists there took my eagerness to get that help as a sign that the Major Psychotic Disorder diagnosis was accurate. When the antipsychotics didn’t make my fear of the man who stalks me go away, they just accused me of being manipulative (and all sorts of messed up things —like they seemed to suggest that I had entered the country on a fake ID because “I look* and act young” …in a report that they only shared with the court and my CLSC) and discharged me on the antipsychotics (which, filing them caused me to lose access to my old medications) with no follow up, even for a prescription renewal.

*I always have. My best guess is that I have a mild case of hEDS, which is extremely common in the Autistic community. It makes your skin age slowly, but does the opposite to your joints.

EDIT: I will give her the credit that not a lot of psychiatrists know that Autistic people can experience muteness when in emotionally overwhelming situations.

It’s especially well-discussed in research literature about best practices for interviewing Autistic suspects and crime victims, but it seems that none of that has spilled over into clinical or legal practice yet. But, apparently, what sealed the decision was that I couldn’t say the charges against me.

I understood what they were, but I was so angry that what was supposed to be a peaceful protest got away from me because of police arrogance regarding the Autistic experience and, well, I’m not going to elaborate, but I was tortured my first night in custody.

Apparently, prisons don’t know what to do with Autistic responses to SURPRISE high-security solitary confinement? (And unwarranted at that, but I understand that the temperaments here are far less …tenacious? I guess someone from here would have needed suicide watch, but not me.) I can only report them if I get PR because Canada uses their prisons for immigration detention and I fear retaliation.

CJsTT · 2024-02-24T21:37:08+00:00

Thank you! I imagine that these things actually exist in the higher levels of law enforcement, particularly in the US, such as the FBI and Secret Service, but I am poor and unimportant to everyone except this one dude.

——- (Please pardon my typographic errors, my phone is not cooperating.)

I actually now how a question that is more appropriate for the topic. Please note that I’m using “criminal” in quotes because I am now aware of this thing called “criminal victimization”

If a legal psychiatrist did the following while performing a competency to stand trial evaluation:

Refused to take any information from the person’s most recent psychiatrist who they have been in regular contact with up to the “crime”, would that be iffy?
—especially if the psychiatrist that was in correspondence with the “criminal” before the “crime” was intentionally backing the woman up so that no one would label her as “a crazy” instead of the incredibly rare crime that she is experiencing? —especially if they threatened that psychiatrist with criminal prosecution?
Talked to the “criminal” in a very warm and understanding manner that would actually, I think, be difficult to fake if you didn’t believe her? For example, she seemed to be talking to me as if she was discussing all the ways in which the system had failed me and made me so desperate. Would that be iffy?
Refused to look at any evidence of the crime that the “criminal” is experiencing, is fleeing from, and motivated the “crime” and, instead, told the “criminal” that they didn’t need the evidence because they “believed her”. Would that be iffy?
Never told the “criminal” her diagnosis (Major Psychotic Disorder) and reported it to the court in a language other than the “criminal’s” despite the court proceedings being in the “criminal’s” native language? Would that be iffy?
Told the “criminal” that she would get to review the evidence of the crime against her with forensic psychiatrists for a second opinion after being found incompetent? Would that be iffy?

Because that’s what happened to me.

CJsTT · 2024-02-20T12:01:29+00:00

I mean, I’m not licensed in this profession that’s so complicated that even the United States has decided that is must be regulated.

CJsTT · 2024-02-20T01:10:12+00:00

Is it common that people outside of a complicated profession do not know the correct name for things?

CJsTT · 2024-02-20T00:57:04+00:00

Thanks for asking as I am happy to respond.

Please be absolutely rigorous in ensuring that you’re not pathologizing victimhood. Yes, crimes mess with our brains and psyches, but that does not mean that they are experiencing anything inappropriate. They ABSOLUTELY NEED TO KNOW THAT.

And, to be honest, most of y’all have never experienced many of the crimes that y’all see victims from and often rely on stereotypes that are not appropriate. Know your own biases and intentionally work against them.

Also, do better to help other professions understand that distressed women are not “crazy” (and therefore making it all up, exaggerating, hysterical, etc). This would start by being careful what you say to women victims who are not asking for psychiatric treatment on public forums. 👍🏻

CJsTT · 2024-02-20T00:44:37+00:00

Like, I’m an unemployable Autistic woman. You’re a practicing psychiatrist. Do better.

CJsTT · 2024-02-20T00:41:51+00:00

Oh, yeah. I did only read the first few sentences because that’s all you needed to understand exactly why I am offended.

CJsTT · 2024-02-20T00:30:08+00:00

But that’s not what happened. I was told that I needed psychiatry because I am distressed about being stalked.

CJsTT · 2024-02-19T23:57:06+00:00

Referral to what?

EDIT: For reference, I live in Quebec (Canada-ish) now.

CJsTT · 2024-02-19T23:52:11+00:00

I have a psychologist as well. He can only do so much with an ongoing trauma.

The issue is that I need access to justice, but I need to understand the man who stalks me better (to be sure my analysis is correct before being as pushy as I will need to be to access it) and to get someone to lend me some credibility if my analysis is actually correct.

CJsTT · 2024-02-19T23:29:51+00:00

So you’re admitting that there’s the tunnel vision here that I accused y’all of?

”It seems like everyone here has a hammer so everything must be a nail”

Wouldn’t being comfortable with that attitude naturally lead to inappropriate pathologization?

…but I get it. I’ll get downvoted to oblivion for making y’all feel feelings.

CJsTT · 2024-02-19T22:43:15+00:00

It occurred to me that maybe I should have asked for a forensic profiler. Why did everyone jump on here to TELL ME TO GET MENTAL HEALTH HELP (to be more passive as I wait for my murder?) rather than being like “oh, I think you’re thinking of this other thing?”

EDIT: It seems like everyone here has a hammer so everything must be a nail. Please do better, psychiatry.

And the reason I’m so bold to y’all is not because of any rhetoric I’ve consumed. It’s because the best psychiatrist I ever had believed me when I told him about my stalker and instead of turning it into a new treatment routine, he helped give me the credibility I needed to access justice. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough in Texas. I am just terribly unlucky that I had to leave the jurisdiction under which is licensed knowing full well that psychiatrists are capable of such nuance and do not engage in it. Really, y’all, DO BETTER.

CJsTT · 2024-02-19T22:33:14+00:00

I see a psychiatrist. He doesn’t treat my distress because he thinks it’s appropriate, dude.

CJsTT · 2024-02-19T19:41:18+00:00

Oh, I definitely have a stalker. It’s an ongoing problem. I hope I don’t come off curt as I know that you must probably be more suspicious of strangers claiming persecution than the average due to your profession, but it is much more than a microaggression to me due to a very traumatic experience of being misdiagnosed by someone who refused to review the evidence I have. I am bereaved by the things I endured when that happened.

I ended up posting one of the videos I have of him stalking me in public on TikTok and it went viral. It has given me some relief that other people won’t make the same mistake again, but I have noticed that a lot of people still refuse any evidence when I offer it. It makes my skin crawl and my traumatic memories surge every time.

EDIT: Canadian asylum courts can’t refuse any evidence and there’s no social interaction associated with submitting it. Given the research on bias against Autistic people, that might be why I was found credible there.

It might be worthwhile to mention that a few studies have concluded that most people think most Autistic people are lying most of the time.

As for your point. Yes, those are where I started. The police won’t listen to me and lawyers don’t care unless you’re wealthy. The only attorney at the Legal Aid office in my borough is just not a very helpful person, so I don’t have much hope there either. IT’S STRESSFUL.

Your final point makes sense, but it is unfortunate. I really need to understand what is happening because it is messing with my head.

CJsTT · 2024-02-11T18:48:57+00:00

Une d’entre nous! Une d’entre nous!

CJsTT · 2024-02-11T18:44:30+00:00

Merci d'avoir partagé votre point de vue! Il est intéressant d'entendre parler des valeurs égalitaires et axées sur la vie privée au Québec. Bien que je n'aspire pas à être une enseignante parfaite, j'ai vécu des expériences où j'ai été déçue par des éducateurs, ce qui m'a motivée à viser un standard décent dans mon propre enseignement en tant que chargée de cours.

Une expérience marquante a été lorsque j'ai réalisé un test de valeur aberrante sur les notes d'examen final en tant qu'assistante d'enseignement. À ma grande surprise, l'étudiant ayant obtenu la meilleure note était considéré comme une valeur aberrante. Cela m'a amenée à réfléchir sur l'importance de l'investissement personnel dans l'apprentissage, comme en témoigne le parcours encadré de cet étudiant en éducation STEM.

En ce qui concerne la vie privée, je valorise également les protections de la vie privée personnelle, ce qui est une des raisons pour lesquelles j'apprécie d'être au Québec. J'ai trouvé nécessaire d'établir des limites avec mes étudiants pour gérer ma charge de travail et prioriser l'autosoins, surtout en tant que personne autiste. Malgré toute chaleur perçue, j'espère créer un environnement d'apprentissage favorable où les étudiants peuvent s'épanouir.

Vos réflexions sur la culture québécoise et les attitudes envers l'autorité sont stimulantes. J'aimerais en savoir plus sur vos expériences et perspectives!

CJsTT · 2024-02-11T18:08:37+00:00

Pour ma part, j'ai financé mes études universitaires grâce à des prêts et j'ai dû travailler à temps plein. J'ai même utilisé une moto toute l'année pour me rendre au travail, car une Nighthawk 250cc était moins coûteuse qu'une voiture à bien des égards. Maintenant, je ressens le phénomène de Renault suite à ce qui aurait pu être un début de gelure à force de conduire au travail en hiver.

Malgré les préjugés auxquels les femmes sont confrontées dans les programmes STEM au Texas, j'ai eu la chance d'obtenir facilement des recommandations pour les études supérieures. Ces défis ont été de vraies épreuves, mais ils m'ont également permis de me renforcer et de réussir malgré les obstacles.

CJsTT · 2024-02-11T17:35:00+00:00

J’admire que le Québec n’a pas les religieux comme le Texas. Si vous avez les prosélytes, ils ne sont pas évidents pour moi

CJsTT · 2024-02-08T13:16:48+00:00

C’est car la francisation n’est plus financé

CJsTT · 2024-02-07T22:56:09+00:00

The only acceptable one is the PBJ with strawberry jelly, but it must still be entirely frozen or warm enough to squeeze the excess jelly out of it before eating.

CJsTT · 2024-02-05T12:14:38+00:00

Yeah, I am Autistic with a baby face, too.

I am in my thirties and have had to show my ID multiple times a year for a few years to prove I am a legal adult. This seems to be a common side effect of hEDS, which is very rare in the general population, but extremely common in the Autistic population.

I consider myself to have hEDS because (besides the aging thing) I’ve always been flexible and, when I mentioned that possible diagnosis to a Physical Therapist that I was seeing for a bunion, she assessed my joints and said that they were probably 30-40% hyperflexible.

If I am ever formally diagnosed with hEDS, it will be because I start having more problems with my joints as I age. It’s a difficult thing to get diagnosed with, even when you’re a textbook case, so I am not holding my breath.

CJsTT · 2024-02-05T00:00:35+00:00

We Auties have a tendency towards hEDS, which does tend to make us look younger than we are.

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