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A Letter to My Therapists: What is wrong with me?

Amelia #actuallyautistic, vulnerably explains her experience with therapists, who had good intentions, but missed what was needed. "We avoid labels like ADHD, OCD, Autism, PTSD like the plague. It enforced, that even you, see them as a badge of everything I can't do." Rather than badges and labels of deficits, they can also be those of empowerment.

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