I myself have talked to my psychiatric Counselor/Social Worker, about feeling “incomplete”, unless my legs become crippled & needing to be encased in KAFO/HKAFO orthopedic braces.

Besides Asperger’s, I am also 100% “medically/cognitively/emotionally” Bladder/Bowel incontinent 24/7. I have read on your website somewhere, about ABy behavior?

Been there, & understand that.

In the “disability” community,
ABy behavior is not unknown.

I myself am on 10mg/day of Lexapro, an SSRI-Type Antidepressant, but with me, I get “side-effects” of “more than usual” autistic motor “incoordination”, & I do experience “100% Real” issues, “controlling my balance” & “physical equilibrium”.

Without this medicine, Sean, I would be “depressed” to the point of “jumping out a window” or whatever.

Recently, while my elderly Dad & younger brother were out of the house (still live in family home - never achieved cognitive/social/financial independence in adulthood), I “sat” in my recently deceased Mom’s “wheelchair”, & while confining myself in the wheelchair for a couple of hours, I “felt whole & complete”, if only “temporarily”.

Thomas
P.S. My Mom died of advanced hyperthyroid disease @ age 72 on Palm Sunday this year, that was never properly treated. Mentally, she spent the last 42 years, “uncontrollably” psychotic, since I was 8 years old, & between my Dad, younger brother, & I, just “cared for her without social supports” for decades.

What about a “high functioning” autistic adult like me with Asperger’s
Syndrome, who also feels
“incomplete”, unless I someday have
both of my legs encased in
KAFO/HKAFO orthopedic braces,
& hobble around using Loftstrand Crutches?

Signed,

Thomas,
DEvelopmentally disabled,
but not “disabled enough” to
fit “internal” body image…