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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Just got off a phone interview with a psychiatrist to discuss me having autism. It was terrible. He assumed a lot about me and kept getting hung up on "You had a traumatic childhood and now you're a sex worker". Does anyone have recs for sexworker-friendly psychiatrists?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
also i would have been fine with him blaming my weirdness on my childhood/job if I felt he'd actually been thorough and came to the conclusion after exploring all the possible objections I had. But he did not. He just immediately heard it and was like 'that thing. that is it.'
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Ken Meier
@THEkenmeier
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@Aella_Girl
I'm not a woman or a sex worker, but if you're anything like me you'll find it more and more shocking just how shallow most educated professionals' reasoning is.
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Paul Bullen
@paulbullen
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@Aella_Girl
My friend who went to a psychiatrist had a similar experience. The psychiatrist (a Persian woman) felt she was able to deduce diagnosis from a few facts. Even if she was right, it would be better to listen carefully first and then calmly try to make a case. By autism do you mean
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aashiq
@aashiq
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How many psychologists are just simplifying the world into a few buckets and doing k-nearest-neighbors? If you see a specialist, the buckets might be more fine grained, but span less of the space.
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