Aspies For Freedom

Hey all.

If you've not read my first post on the Local Groups forum, I'll introduce myself seen as I'm new to this site.

My name is Sam, I'm an 18 year old aspie bloke from Preston, a town in the northwest of the UK.

I'm posting here because I want your opinions and advice on a matter, and also you're free to leave comments on how you feel about my current situation, I'd be happy to hear you all voice if this outrages or disappoints you in any way.

Basically I'm currently a patient on a mental health ward.  This is the first point I feel is wrong.  I'm being treated like I need curing.  The next point is even more outrageous.  I'm on neuroleptic medication.  Specifically, I'm on an anti-psychotic called Amisulpride, and an anti-depressant called Citalopram.  

How do you all feel about this??  Do you think I should demand to be taken off the stuff??  As a point of principle I feel I should be able to make the decision to live in my natural mental state, no matter how uncomfortable it can get sometimes.

What do you guys think I should do??

and a patient can be held under this law soley for aspergers?

I've not actually been sectioned, I'm informal, I was almost sectioned however...  until I decided to get violent and show them I wasn't going to be caged up like an animal.

You can't be sectioned solely for Asperger's, however there are several aspects of our condition that can cause us to become a threat to ourselves or others, therefore warranting a section under the mental health act.

In my case, I'm an on and off self-harmer and also I get urges to hurt others, including a past history of cold and calculated violence towards others.

This warranted a section.

So basically what my dilemna is, is that if I come off the medication, and I'm happy with the state I get into, which sometimes isn't pretty, therefore others in higher places may feel I need sectioning.

In my eyes it's my choice whether I take medication or not and therefore the state I get myself into.  After all, we have a right as Aspergians to live in our "natural" state.  For example, if we were the majority, and we felt the natural state NT's live in is detremental to thier or our health, should we be allowed to lock them up and medicate them in order to make them fit into our scheme of things??

Please reply with your comments on this matter.
Sam.