So, I’m missing another dialysis treatment today because I am too frightened to go there for my lifesaving treatment and get argued with when I have a need, and instead I get scolded and judged when their unwillingness to accommodate me results in me having a meltdown.
I am AUTISTIC….I am NOT a bad behavior, so stop giving me ABA style behaviorism when it is your staff who causes me to have those meltdowns.
I’m sick this morning because I’m still upset and hurt because of how some of your staff treated me on Wednesday. I really want to quit dialysis because I feel every level of miserable, alone and unsupported while I am there.
I have emailed this clinic hundreds of times to educate them about my autism. I’ve been going to this clinic for the past almost six years. They should all know by now that to scold and lecture me when I’m in the middle of a meltdown — or any autistic person who is having a meltdown —- is like pouring literal gasoline on a fire.
Melissa Fields, Autist 