• SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That still doesn’t mean they recommend “abuse.” Every doctor in the US must renew their medical license every few years and that means taking continuing medical education classes. Nobody is recommending therapy from the 70s anymore.

    Also, it’s still vague about what this “abuse” is so it’s hard to debunk a vague accusation.

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        This article is really really good, I think it deserves to be a post of it’s own. This quote is the best description of the way I experience being verbal that I’ve found:

        When you are autistic, talking can be exhausting. Even if you are extremely verbal like I am – adults praised my precocious vocabulary as a child, and I have often been called a “chatterbox” – vocal speech is draining. My well of words may be deeper than that of most other autistic people, but it is not bottomless.

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      Also, it’s still vague about what this “abuse” is so it’s hard to debunk a vague accusation.

      So you’ve already made up your mind that it’s something that needs to be debunked before you even know what “abuse” refers to?

      It’s shit like this that keeps hurting credibility of anyone defending established practices, right or wrong.

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      1 year ago

      I have a distinct recollection of professors at a UNC Chapel Hill department cocktail party comparing notes on their psychoanalysts in the late 2000’s.

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        1 year ago

        Psychologists are not the same as physicians or psychiatrists. Your 20 year old anecdote isn’t proof of anything, sorry.

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          It was a poor attempt at humor. Sorry. EDIT: oh, it’s you. Hello Newman. Destroyer of humor. Psychoanalysts can have MDs. They’re a relic of one aspect of health that mainly and rightly died out in the 70s. There.