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I think medication helps in some very real ways. But of course, there are always side-effects and you have to approach it with an openness that both parties are coming in pretty blindly and you've both got a common goal to get you to where you want to go. So it's a lot of trial and error, but when you find things that work for you it just kinda - *clicks* and you don't feel different than who you are but almost kinda...better? That sounds absolutely awful, but by that I mean the things that stood in your way that made it hard for you to do whatever you want to do day to day become a lot easier to achieve without being detrimental in other areas of your life.
And I was anti-medication for about 650 years. But it's helped me, quite a bit =)
im not anti per se but more last resort type. I was worse though. I have learned to start taking pain medication after a surgery and not wait until it gets bad enough to take (because it can take quite a bit of time to take effect and when the hospital ones wear off it can come on strong and sudden)
Yeah, my mom is so anti-medication she has surgeries and just winces through the recovery and it's absolutely miserable to watch. I once was in so much pain that I went into shock and if an amazing most lovely nurse on the face of this planet (I LOVE YOU SARBJIT!) hadn't helped me I am not sure what would have happened. I'm not even joking, it was bad. Really bad @_@!!
I am also taking some stuff right now that hasn't fixed everything, but I am way more functional right now than I was prior (cause it got bad for a while there too - was stuck in bed for a majority of the year and could barely walk). SO! I am pro-medication but as long as you and your provider can reach a mutual space with it and you feel like it's helping and not hurting your being =)! Cheers =)!!
In total psychotropics in ASD is lesser prescribed, have a lesser effect in autistic population, but not for each patient. From other hand each pharmacologic substance is another substance, and each psychotherapist is another man, finally. If you take a therapy, you take side effects of it. There is calculation. And a harder life is not a better life, that's just what culture teaches.
I mean I'm AuDHD so there's that. But also not a psychologist but I think I read something about how there's three categories of mental disorders and that the one both ADHD and Autism lay in are in executive functioning. I think the other two were...personality and mood? And I think those are given more kinda like - mind altering drugs. Cause I don't really feel any different when I am taking my medication. It just kinda helps clear up my head a bit. I can function (personally) on or off of it if I needed to. But I know individuals who are drastically different on/off drugs. For better or worse. Like people with bipolar who can't get out of bed because they can't move an inch or shift to mania and have no filter to what they'd be open to.
*But pairing medication with therapy always helps. Having someone you feel safe enough to talk with - that's the stuff. And if they can give you a relatively objective response to your word smoosh, even better!
If you meet the pharmacological criteria, then it's most likely that you have what's indicated by your reaction to the medications.