This is an article I wrote in response to a thing that annoys me.
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It sounds like the neurotypical took him as an “I can fix him” project, marry them, then discard in their partners once they learn there’s nothing to fix. And instead of taking responsibility for messing with someone’s life and feelings, just blame the partner instead.
Been in a relationship like that and it almost killed me.
I’m really, really sorry to hear that. I hope you’re doing better now, and that you find/have found someone who loves and appreciates you exactly as you are, you deserve it.
I am in a much better place, still dealing with cPTSD from that. I am extremely upset that my abuser, who encouraged my suicide after I got my autism diagnosis, is considered a victim of the “Cassandra Syndrome”, and I am the bad guy.
I’m really glad to hear that you’re doing better. At the end of the day, it’s classic psychiatrist behavior. They’ve always treated us as problems because we’re different, and blamed us for not fitting neatly into the mold society expects everyone to fit, rather than helping society to accept other people for being different.
This is also why I hate modern psychiatric approaches to treating trauma such as CBT and EMDR, it focuses on making trauma victims fit into society better through some sort of systematic approach, tackling “symptoms”, rather than treating people as individuals and just talking them through issues in a holistic way.