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RensMeerkat [2017-12-28 18:11:10 +0000 UTC]
Whenever I would talk in group therapy situations, they would yell at me for talking too much or about the wrong thing. Eventually, I would just start fights and or just scream like I was being killed the WHOLE time in order to make them kick me out.
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RensMeerkat In reply to mdchan [2018-01-03 21:22:13 +0000 UTC]
I also was forced to go to a special needs summer camp that I didn't want to go too. I would just SCREAM all night long and keep everyone up until they realized I was just going to do that until they called my parents to come get me.
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NuclearBurrito [2016-10-18 03:53:05 +0000 UTC]
It seems like not permitting anyone to hold anything or move around would be counter-productive, though I guess the people organizing the group could have not been aware about the way autism and/or stimming works.
I've never understood group "therapy" either (or whatever the heck they called it). From what I remember, it was exactly how you described it towards the end: something shoved down the kids' throats. Of course, that could have just been my point of view, as everyone else seemed fine with socializing while I sat at the end of the table and silently questioned the logic of the situation. And honestly, simply being around a good friend or a group of good friends can be more "therapeutic" than anything any counselor has ever offered.
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AspiePie [2016-09-05 16:16:31 +0000 UTC]
Yep!
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seratum [2016-09-02 21:34:04 +0000 UTC]
He shouldn't have to do that if he doesn't want to...
But what do you think of using robots for autism therapy? Have you heard about that idea? ^^
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mdchan In reply to seratum [2016-09-03 02:33:44 +0000 UTC]
I've never heard of that.
I personally actually probably wouldn't like it.
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ProBubLie [2016-09-02 15:44:42 +0000 UTC]
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mdchan In reply to ProBubLie [2016-09-03 02:34:19 +0000 UTC]
I think one on one is much better for folks on the spectrum.
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landonbay [2016-09-02 11:37:30 +0000 UTC]
I had a counselor, but that's it.
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refield [2016-09-02 03:32:56 +0000 UTC]
They attempted to get me into a "class" in high-school that was a thinly veiled group therapy.
I was insulted, especially when they wouldn't take my answer, "I don't want to be here, and I don't want to talk to you," at face value. I was able to transfer out in a week after I made it clear at my IEP meeting that I would gain no value and I would not cooperate in the wasting of my time.
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mdchan In reply to refield [2016-09-03 02:35:19 +0000 UTC]
At least you managed to get out and you knew it wouldn't be of any help to you!
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refield In reply to mdchan [2016-09-05 02:27:44 +0000 UTC]
I'm curious about something, but I don't know if it's appropriate to ask publicly. May I send you a note?
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mdchan In reply to refield [2016-09-05 20:23:13 +0000 UTC]
Go ahead! ^^
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refield In reply to mdchan [2016-09-06 03:36:29 +0000 UTC]
It's a bit of a long one.
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mdchan In reply to refield [2016-09-06 03:43:00 +0000 UTC]
That's okie. It's late where I am currently, so I'll just check it tomorrow, then.
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Slimy-Pennies [2016-09-02 00:07:57 +0000 UTC]
i'm honestly more interested in your story than the actual art X'D
aw man nobody ever made me go to group therapy, thank the lord, but that sounds like hell
i agree that it's easier to talk when everybody has some sort of common ground, i once joined a massive group skype chat over our combined love of td and made some of my best friends........ i'm blessed................
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mdchan In reply to Slimy-Pennies [2016-09-02 02:10:31 +0000 UTC]
Not sure how I should feel about that first line. XD
What's "td"?
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Slimy-Pennies In reply to mdchan [2016-09-02 02:17:27 +0000 UTC]
crap, forgot there's people who don't suffer in td hell
it's total drama, an admittedly mediocre canadian cartoon that i adore because i have trash taste i have so much trash in my mouth bleh bleh gross
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mdchan In reply to Slimy-Pennies [2016-09-03 02:35:49 +0000 UTC]
Ahhh. If we get that over here in the US, I'm not aware of it since I don't watch TV. XD
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Slimy-Pennies In reply to mdchan [2016-09-03 02:47:38 +0000 UTC]
fun fact: after the first season, every season premiered first in the us, usually by a couple months :')
blessed be the internet, my dude, blessed be the internet
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FluffySnuffy [2016-09-01 22:22:40 +0000 UTC]
They wouldn't let you stim or leave the room?? What the HEY! I had group therapy at school, and we were allowed to stim, leave the room, but then it wasn't social stuff it was normal therapy, I knew all the people, including the therapist, at a place I loved. But I will DEFINITLY agree that most group therapy wasn't as good as what I did. Fer sure.
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mdchan In reply to FluffySnuffy [2016-09-02 02:12:56 +0000 UTC]
To be fair on their part, I wasn't diagnosed with ASD at that point in time (if people had known back then what they do today about it, I would have had the diagnosis; since most people thought it was still linked to Intellectual Disability back then, I was never diagnosed. Asperger's only started to really surface around the year 2000, and then information on autism seemed to start to come more into the light).
Leaving the room was allowed, but we really weren't supposed to do it; I suppose they were trying to prevent truancy, because that's a "class" I definitely would have found excuses to skip. >.>;;
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FluffySnuffy In reply to mdchan [2016-09-02 02:51:40 +0000 UTC]
Ohh, that makes sense. Still it's odd they wouldn't let you stim.
My school was pretty understanding you were allowed to not go if you felt you wouldn't be able too. But Voyager is the BEST PLACE I love it there! I got pretty lucky in what program I was put in. I know a lot probably weren't as good.
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RensMeerkat [2016-09-01 21:52:11 +0000 UTC]
I've always heard that group therapy is one of the worst things you can do for an autistic person. Whenever a shrink or someone suggests it, I drop that shrink like a rock. I refuse to see a "therapist" for lots of reasons but that's a major one. They're all stupid and have no general knowledge of Asperger's and half of them have never heard of it.
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RensMeerkat [2016-09-01 21:41:13 +0000 UTC]
Try to put me in group therapy and there will be war.
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mdchan In reply to RensMeerkat [2016-09-02 02:08:36 +0000 UTC]
When a prior therapist kept trying to shove me into group, it was definitely a battle point in which I emerged victorious.
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RensMeerkat In reply to mdchan [2016-09-02 11:14:07 +0000 UTC]
I call them first and make them give me an short essay on AS before I agree tobgo to them.
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RensMeerkat [2016-09-01 21:40:18 +0000 UTC]
Was that truly group therapy or group torture?
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mdchan In reply to RensMeerkat [2016-09-02 02:09:09 +0000 UTC]
Other people benefited from it and were able to talk; I'm just not one of them.
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RensMeerkat In reply to mdchan [2016-09-02 11:14:45 +0000 UTC]
Some AS people might,bit i was never one of them.
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