That is exactly what happened, actually several times. I was adopted by Jill in junior high, by Tina in high school, and by Jenn for senior year and my early twenties. I was taught to interact with others explicitly because I had no implicit understanding of how socializing worked. It's part of why I'm crushing on Dr. Reid from Criminal Minds and Parker from Leverage right now. I strongly identify with both.
If I had taken this back in junior high or high school and learned that I wasn't just inexplicably weird, I think I would have cried, too.
now I have questions for my old therapist who managed to miss this. Was he trying to prevent me from blaming my problems on a condition? Did he think I wouldn't invest in learning how to like people ... okay, yeah, that's totally fair. I think maybe I prefer having not known. In light of how the system works, a diagnosis would have gotten me put back in the special classes where I would have been bored out of my mind and continued finding illegal things to do to entertain myself. That would not have ended well.
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Date: 2010-02-15 04:39 pm (UTC)If I had taken this back in junior high or high school and learned that I wasn't just inexplicably weird, I think I would have cried, too.
now I have questions for my old therapist who managed to miss this. Was he trying to prevent me from blaming my problems on a condition? Did he think I wouldn't invest in learning how to like people ... okay, yeah, that's totally fair. I think maybe I prefer having not known. In light of how the system works, a diagnosis would have gotten me put back in the special classes where I would have been bored out of my mind and continued finding illegal things to do to entertain myself. That would not have ended well.