We talked stuff that works you up, how about things that you do to calm down? What techniques, activities, mantras, stims, etc. do you do to keep yourself comfortable and safe? Feel free to share what you’d like - and something kinda cool is that you might end up helping someone else down the line.
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.