How Do I Stop Being the “Therapist Friend”?

Autistic Advice #8

Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can send me questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here.

Today’s question comes from an anonymous Tumblr user who has become disillusioned with being the “therapist friend,” and wishes loved ones would listen sympathetically to their…