Anyone else here with breast cancer AND high functioning autism?

Hi! I've just been diagnosed and was wondering if any of you amazing people also have ASD (Aspergers)? It does feel like I'm a bit of a rareity when dealing with the surgical/medical teams.
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I, too, have had some issues where my reactions, either overly calm or overly catastrophic, have made my medical teams uncomfortable. What can you do? We are who we are.
Keep them on their toes. Take notes, teach them stuff they need to learn. Good luck.
If I am to spend time in some sort of afterlife, I wouldn't choose to follow that smirk around. He's irritating enough while I'm alive. Mxx
I know what you mean. Other people don't understand the sensory overload we have especially when it comes to pain.
As I have stage 4 I'm choosing to not have aggressive treatment and just try and stay as comfortable and peaceful as possible.
Do you know what your prognosis would be if you did stop treatment? Where are you in Australia?
The system is shitty and clunky and adversarial for most folk. There is little or no consideration for anyone who is in any way neurodiverse or is burdened with other conditions. Despite the obvious fact that many of the scientists treating us are somewhere on one spectrum of another.
Please, don't give up because you have to deal with a few fuckwits. It will be scant comfort, but those individuals make life miserable for many people. You have to wonder why, but it's a fact.
Do it once and hope it works. The pain and side effects are routinely dismissed which grinds my gears something chronic. Just drag your arse through it and hope it will all be an unpleasant memory in the future. Don't let things you can't control In the treatment space cruel your chances of survival. Mxx
I've done the whole treatment thing twice now and I fully understand the urge to chuck the wretched messy business in the bin. Losing hope and trust is soul destroying, but it is also a very interesting experience if you can view it through an impersonal lens. That was, ultimately, what got me through. This shitfight is pretty intriguing. So many moving parts that are strangely disconnected.
I guess my message is to make sure that is your choice, not a reaction to the sort of deeply unsatisfactory responses from an unsympathetic system which many of us experience. That system won't, and probably can't, change, but our survival rates are some of the highest in the world. Do what you can. Mxx