I've always assumed it was mostly an American thing, and I'm sure you know what that (((means))). Not even joking for the most part, I hate to blame those people for everything but yeah.
People have called me an idiot for not just throwing the pills away, and I have to tell them that the single time I tried, I got caught and my father went absolutely fucking ballistic. Not really angry at him for that, though it makes me sad that these psychiatrist people are so good at fear-mongering and making struggling parents believe they NEED to put their kids on meds. The food in my country is already poison made for profit, and then the effects of that on people get treated with more poison.
Anyway, I even ended up abusing my Ritalin just so it would "cancel out" the antipsychotics for a brief period sometimes. The FDA here doesn't even mention those medications as suitable for treating autism (because it's a neurological disorder and not a chemical issue), they just randomly decided to say they can treat specific symptoms. People don't understand how those pills are high-caliber shit.
If I may ask, what SSRIs are you on? I despise that class of drug myself, but at least they don't completely rape your brain. Being on two must be rough though.