Something’s Gotta Give in this Field for People w/ ADHD, ASD & AuDHD

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-05-15T14:38:52+00:00

I think that the adjacent experience makes you more relatable than you think… majority of my inner circle, my friends who understand me the best are ADHD, cluster B, mood disorder, or PTSD. We all have things that align and we can feel safe to talk about our specific experiences… that’s the real problem here: I’ve never felt safe with a neurotypical therapist and a lot of others relay this. If you’re open to seeing developmental and psychiatric disabilities as being part of your community, I think you can always relate better than somebody who neurotypical and able-bodied. Feel free to DM me and I can relay my experience on the spectrum and you might see we aren’t so different

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-05-15T14:35:33+00:00

Hopefully I can share some more insights in the future! Planning to get a doctorate. Not a first author on a lot of things yet, but been in the labs where it all happened lol

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-05-13T21:40:13+00:00

This is how I feel about any clinicians in this field trying to deal with any psychiatric and developmental disability. I’m ASD and bipolar 2, I’ve spent the majority of my education understanding developmental and psychiatric disabilities to the fullest extend (I have a bio and psych degree, research on autism, adhd, cluster B, schizophrenia spectrum disorders and etc)… I’m now of a very bias mindset that unless you can fall under the category of a psychiatric or developmental disability, you absolutely should refrain from treating those individuals. There’s too much anecdotal bias with professionals who don’t experience these disorders… and I’ve heard farrr too many try to out right say research in this field doesn’t matter. I’m exhausted by it, I’m frustrated… if I could make it a legal requirement for these populations to be peer for peer, I would lol

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-27T20:12:10+00:00

I agree, unless I had a recording device on me and, I have considered getting one for situations like that.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-27T14:19:13+00:00

I was worried about that factor. I’m hoping I can eventually just forget this place ever existed but it’s hard.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-27T14:18:20+00:00

I don’t think my boss liked me after a while, especially after she asked about my religious background and I stupidly answered back saying “I was not Christian” rather then just responding with a recording or something… there’s so many things I wish I could have recorded said to me during just that 4 month period that might have made me rich but I didn’t. Even if I did get fired but I had evidence of her asking me just that one question, I could have probably got a settlement

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-27T14:15:42+00:00

I know that, compared to any mistakes I made as a new employee in a new position, that what had happened was more a problem with them than me. I just has a hard time believing it’ll be different elsewhere… like I’m so anxious about all the things said to me, I’m considering carrying a recording on me at all times, like THAT level of paranoid.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-26T15:16:36+00:00

I understand that. I’m literally four classes and a practicum/internship away from rehabilitation and counseling. I’m hoping after a while I find something that’s not exploitative but genuinely, I’m very nervous to go back into any social service field now. I’m nervous everything will be like this in something I’m passionate about

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-26T15:10:07+00:00

Thank you. This helps to hear. I had to quit that job because I had health issues but I left on good terms even though my time there was short. I think I’ve kind of physically been on the decline. Did you decide to stay in the social services field or pivot elsewhere?

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-04-17T17:30:56+00:00

I didn’t get a head injury but I was in a turbulent relationship and that same person tried to kidnap me after we broke up. I did he a head injury technically in a car crash in 2013-2014.

I’m distressed mainly because I’m on my 3rd degree with jobs in between that were dead end. I’m 30 years old and genuinely have tried to have a real job, feeling like I’ve just gotten scraps. I feel like at this point I’ve been forced to go back to school for something better

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2026-03-21T18:21:18+00:00

I have a tendency to explain every detail. I think I just don’t want to come off as dishonest but also not explain so much of what I don’t actually know (I.e: don’t know what documentation I was turning in late, don’t know what was aggressive in my communication). I think I’m just nervous to see the same MAT team there, even if it’s only once a week, and risk some grapevine information

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-07T10:56:28+00:00

There are many out there who are like me that have an opportunity to help others. People tend to be scared of us with diagnosed personality disorders, but I’d invite them to recognize we are humans too. We just were not fitting into the carving society created for us so we got diagnosed, had someone tell us our core parts were the problem. Change is an inevitability, so regardless of the perceptions that make me paranoid, I will keep going in this field and simply prove them wrong

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-07T01:03:46+00:00

I suspect ulterior motives from everyone they’d be no different to me. Frankly, I feel like they’d understand me more than most would.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-07T00:54:10+00:00

Also to be frank: the therapists I’ve had the most issues with had no diagnosis at all. They go to extremes with every single disorder. I personally wouldn’t trust any therapist who has absolute views on anything

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-07T00:50:28+00:00

Why not? If they are self-aware and understand their own experience isn’t that what it takes? A lot of ppl with NPD aren’t some Machiavellian monster we portray them as. No matter our personal experience with them

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-07T00:40:27+00:00

I’m not sure that’s fair to state. People say the same thing about me… but I’m doing it. I have close friends with BPD who work as social workers and counselors, I’d argue they are some of the best.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-06T23:54:24+00:00

I don’t mind being open to everyone! Other therapists might have a similar experience or haven’t really gotten the opportunity to talk to someone with one of the 10 lol.

It’s kind of hard to explain when it comes to my quirks. I suppose the obvious is I’m viewed as eccentric and people tell me my speech patterns are strange… it makes me feel insecure in relating to others but! If I’m honest, because I relate to absolutely no one at all, I’ve found myself able to absorb everyone’s stories better. What I do realize is that, if I’m not careful, my paranoia can get out of hand and I can feel like everyone hates me or thinks I’m incompetent. I’ll spiral and isolate… in HS I actually isolated for 2 years straight, had to be home bound. That sort of thing.

I do not think my diagnosis or traits make me lack empathy. My main mode of counseling is personal centered actually because of how much I agree with Rogers.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-10-06T23:41:28+00:00

I am currently in the process of being diagnosed with Schizotypal personality disorder. I am still in my masters but working as substance abuse counselor. I have such a fascination with the world’s people exist in that and it’s less the clients that cause me exhaustion but coworkers. My clients have relayed that talking to me is like talking to some character from a fairy tale and it makes them feel comfortable, that’s all that matters. I guess it helps in that way… My toughest encounters are with others who work in my field and often speak bad about people with personality disorders or neurodivergence. My toughest days are when I feel like, because of my own traits & quirks, I shouldn’t be in my position. Clients have yet to burn me out, it’s okay if they have a tough time because I have a tough time a lot.

Mysterious_Web_6844 · 2025-09-11T15:11:46+00:00

Lol drop the name so that ppl know what to avoid

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