The psychiatrist who I went to in order to get SSI diagnosed me with birth trauma. A brain injury sustained at birth, to be exact.
I wasn’t expecting that at all, and it really punched me in the gut to hear that.
I would have written it off as ableist bullshit (cuz autism being believed as something to prevent, something broken) but when I looked into it...a lot of the criteria fit.
This happened almost a year(?) ago, but it still gets to me.
@pazzytalks There’s still so much I’m unsure of, and there more questions than answers.
Like, I’m probably gonna see if my insurance can allow MRIs or something, because words don’t cut it for me. I need to see actually evidence. Where is the injury, where is the damage?
One of the questions I have is—is this cerebral palsy? A mild kind that doesn’t show physical symptoms very well, like you gotta squint to see it?
I’m still looking shit up, and it’s mentally exhausting, trying to figure out what the hell is going on with your body.
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