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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Link between Aspergers and Cluster B personalities? |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2018, 11:03 pm
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Excellent analysis.
APA too frequently relies on double-dipping stats. They find comfort in pathology over diversity, them vs Us
Might I refer to it as a link b/t APA & "Cluster F personalities"? |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Link between Aspergers and Cluster B personalities? |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 4:25 pm
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| Since your questions are based on false pretenses I don't want to state or ask if there is a scientifically/statistically proven link between having Aspergers and having a cluster B (narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial, borderline) personality disorder. Since only a few nt people fall into this cat... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Link between Aspergers and Cluster B personalities? |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2017, 12:57 pm
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| 1. is it true that people with mild autism or Aspergers can never have cluster B personalities? . The topic requires more research. I don't see why those disorders had to rule out each other - but I met people misdiagnosed with cluster B before obtaining the right diagnoses of autism, so the resear... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Uh oh, Scintillating scotoma but no migraine :( |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2017, 12:10 pm
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| I never had a migraine headache in my life, but yesterday I got a Scintillating scotoma (an aura that preludes migraines), but with no migraine. Not good, as Scintillating scotoma is also associated with stroke and epilepsy, and being on the spectrum I'm very likely to suffer from the latter (I've ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The unpopular WP members club |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 8:46 pm
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Replies: 6,423
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XeroFur wrote: I'm unpopular and that's great! I want to stay like that, underground is better! 
If there was a "like" button I would have clicked it for your post |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The unpopular WP members club |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2017, 10:34 pm
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C2V wrote: Quote: I have a knack, of sorts, for being unclassifiable. Which means psychometric testing doesn't work with me - they have to date decided what I wanted them to decide, several times, often in completely contradictory directions.
Sounds like an interesting story... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How do you feel about the word ret*d? |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2017, 10:26 pm
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| I am glad autistic is used to describe a wider variety of people these days. i am glad everybody is not using it as a complete negative anymore. I am still careful about where I talk about it, although where I work now there seems to be more than the usual who I suspect might be. It makes the job m... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The unpopular WP members club |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2017, 10:21 pm
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| I don't believe Gender Identity Disorder is a mental disorder at all, for example, as it is cured by physical means. Good point! It's interesting about the psychological profession though - I have a knack, of sorts, for being unclassifiable. Which means psychometric testing doesn't work with me - t... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The unpopular WP members club |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2017, 8:51 pm
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| I don't believe the lies the "experts" put on autistics (what you call alexithymic characteristics), but I use their beliefs to better understand how neurotypicals perceive us anthropologically - to navigate the world they control (i.e. TRW) with enough success to bring home a paycheck. L... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How do you feel about the word ret*d? |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2017, 8:25 pm
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Replies: 413
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| ret*d means slow. ret*d has pretty much always been a pejorative. If people want to reappropriate that word into something positive I would be for that effort. But that's silly. Why should we change the meaning of existing words. That's like going through the dictionary and scoring out words we don... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: An intersting perspecitive on Autism Research |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2017, 10:31 pm
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: An intersting perspecitive on Autism Research |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2017, 10:24 pm
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| Gernsbacher MA, Stevenson JL, Dern S (2017) Specificity, contexts, and reference groups matter when assessing autistic traits. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171931. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171931 This group researched the significance of identifying context for the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire and the... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How do you feel about the word ret*d? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2017, 3:44 pm
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IstominFan wrote: I hated that song, "People who need people." They are NOT the luckiest people by a long shot. Being overly dependent is not a sign of good fortune.
I hated it because it is a bad song - now its in my head, damn it!! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is getting overstimulated at complete random a normal thing? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2017, 2:40 pm
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| I find that this happens to me quite often. I can't seem to pinpoint what is overstimulating me, and it drives me nuts. Any thoughts/advice on how to deal with this? I was getting agitated, then heard my daughter comment that she was shutting off TV because of the high pitched noise it was making. ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Please define "Echolalia". |
| Awiddershinlife |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2017, 2:32 pm
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| For those who want full description of Echolalia. What seems to have escaped posters is that echolalia is not pathogenic, but is developmental (a step toward typical verbal communication) and occurs in all speakers. I get so sick of people always making anything associated with autism a disease, ev... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How do you feel about the word ret*d? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2017, 2:18 pm
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Replies: 413
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| It is a word that means slow. Language always provides non-literal, abstract ways to precisely express one's ideas. If we politicize a word, its meaning morphs. "ret*d" changed from a general adjective to talk about something that was moving, but at a slower speed, to label and segregate h... |
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