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Originally Posted by STT Resident
Generally how it is for most people, believe it or not. The US has been in the forefront of coming up with new diagnoses year after year to explain, in many cases, minor social disorders and all to the benefit of the pharmaceutical companies who churn out drug after drug after drug at enormous profit to treat (for instance) stress, insomnia, and ADD and all it's accompanying subcategories. Then we come to autism and the more recently documented "Asperger's Syndrome" as its subsidiary link. It never ends and the populace becomes not only dependent upon mind altering drugs but uses a diagnosis as an excuse for simple bad behavior and much more.
Yes, there is something to seek counseling for - you. You started this post because you wanted affirmation that doing what you did was OK. No, it wasn't. It was infantile. Nothing has been resolved and won't be until you get some counseling which registers.
It's been said many times over on many different threads in many different forums, and is something which I can personally attest to, that it sometimes takes many efforts to find the right counselor who can put you on the right path. Your assumption that it's over is, in my opinion, very short-sighted. Unless you continue on with professional counseling you're doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again and that would be a real waste of a life. Good luck.
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Oh - the counseling thing is out of concern I'm going to bring behaviors from this past relationship into the next one?
That's not exactly how it works for Aspergers..
I have to intellectually think things through...like when shes crying she's actually upset...I have to cognitively come to that conclusion. Prior to talking to the counselor about it, I didn't know. Now I know...
Counseling doesn't make you suddenly able to feel those emotions...counseling just tells you "if you're going to be in a relationship, you can't do that.."
We did three months of that. She gave suggestions on how to better interact with her family, and with her, but the biggest thing was LEARNING something was "different" with me and that I needed to be aware of and account for it..
If I needed help on a particular issue (like why can't I talk to people, or something similar), THEN counseling may make sense...
As you guys can probably see by now, many things don't affect me or bother me. I find it amazing that people place emphasis on other men in our old bed, or her bringing them home while I'm at work (trying to kill herself is a different story)...
While other people may need counseling for that (like my dad and his divorce..) - I'm puzzled by it, and laughing, reading, excited about moving, and getting to start the next phase in my life...
I have a feeling my experience on here would of been much easier if I stated I was in tears all the time, so depressed, unable to cope, and going nuts...but nope, sorry guys...
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