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submitted 5 months ago by olena@mementomori.social to c/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe

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Just was ‘diagnosed’ with anxiety today after talking to a psychiatrist for five minutes (I’m using quotes because it seems a bit too preliminary to me to diagnose whoever with whatever after about 5 minutes of general talk).
Came asking for #ADHD and #autism evaluation. Was totally ignored on that regard) Of course, didn’t have courage to ask again.

Was it so obvious? Was I just a walking stereotype: middle-aged woman from a war-thorn country living alone who voluntarily came to a psychiatrist(doesn’t matter what else she has, she can’t NOT be anxious)?
Or is it just a general experience of most of #AuDHD female-passing folks: to be seen as anxious, to have most of their symptoms attributed to #anxiety (not like I was asked about any symptoms, but maybe have demonstrated some?)?

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[–] Uair@autistics.life 0 points 5 months ago

@cy

Most heroin users start on pills, but not codeine. Hydrocodone or oxycodone. Morphine is basically free to produce, and not patentable, so in America doctors prescribe pills like percocet, which is hydrocodone with acetaminophen. You may have heard of oxycodone. The Sackler family made a few bucks pushing it.

These used to be kept out of the general population, but bush2 opened the floodgates. Then, once an entire generation had been strung out, he cut them off. They had to switch to dope. In my day, this was a self-regulating drug, since the acetaminophen would kill you in a couple months at high doses. Most people wouldn't go through the effort it took to go deeper into that addiction. It's very far from safe to go to the ghetto to buy dope.

For clarity: opium is 10% morphine and 5% codeine. Heroin is morphine with a methyl(?) group attached to make it more potent. It didn't gain popularity until we banned morphine and the volume you had to smuggle mattered. Fentanyl and carfentanil are significantly stronger than heroin. Carfentanil is basically a chemical weapon. See: the Moscow Opera House siege.

I'm pretty sure Kratom is a different class of drug, but don't know much about it. It's been my experience that anything legal that actually gets you high is a poison. The only legal recreational drug I'll do is nitrous oxide, which is harmless. And weed's semi legal now. I classify ethanol as a poison, not a drug.