Manic Depressive, Geek, Aspergers suggested by Doctor (GP)

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[I am new in these parts, came here through the slashdoted Bit torrent article.]

Is there a standard questionare to fill out? Lots of text with little point leaves me cold, after the brief warming of I empathise but wait a second this leads nowhere..

What is the point of outing oneself, or being outed by the medial fraternity, as Aspergers, when there is no treatment?

If there is a treatment tell me how to deal with my struggle to come to terms with the world? Social interaction, reading emotions <insert usual suspects>

Check out my site cv etc:
http://www.geocities.com/totierne

For manic depression I have hung out around:
http://www.theicarusproject.net/
it even has 'Some kind of crazy nor BP' forum (BiPolar is the new name for manic depression that a lot of manic depressives do not like).
http://theicarusproject.net/community/v ... m.php?f=22

I am half tempted to put in the old 'geek code' settings. http://www.geekcode.com/ . Maybe I am looking for a twin to bounce off, my elder brother, who I was close enough to, but never really communicated with, took himself out of the gene pool just before the millenium.

This has turned into longer than I wanted, I like to make an impact, however small, and the more I speak the less I make sense.
I practice introductions as I am poor at relationships.

Don't eat yellow snow,

Regards,
Turloch O'Tierney

Hi turloch,

Im also an aspie whos a manic depressive and am right now in a depressed phase and its getting really bad

... I force myself to read (pop?) psychology books even if it is a paragraph a day, believing, especially if it is false, that I can rebuild myself stronger for next time.

[This is in a low after a manic breakdown)

Your Mileage May Vary

I despise reading "pop" psychology books and self-help-- ECK!

But I do adore reading abnormal psych books, especially those about Autism. And for the past year or so I have been collecting Autism books as much as I can, and I speed through them. I simply adore Abnormal Psychology, and reading something which is both about AB. Psych AND about something that affects me personally is EXCELLENT.

Oh, and yes,Bipolar, as I understand it, is one of the most comordbid disorders to Aspergers. ADHD is another big one as well.

>But I do adore reading abnormal psych books, especially those about Autism.

Any "Good Stuff" worth sharing?

Regards,
Turloch

Symptom <-> method of dealing with
[Not to be minimized and/or disguarded]

[just my 2 cent]

Hmmm, well there are the two standard ones that every newbie tends to purchase:

1) Asperger'S Syndrome by Tony Attwood

2) A Guide to Asperger Syndrome by Chris Gillberg

However, both of these are aging, especially the Gillberg book.

Two good ones which should be coming out soon:

1) A Strange World- Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and PDD-NOS by Martine F. Delfos

2) The Genesis of Artistic Creativity: Asperger's Syndrome and the Arts by Michael Fitxgerald (which is supposed to focus on supposed famous Aspies in history)

But for the most part, here is an excellent site which provides a huge list from which you can have your picks of Aspie/Autism books:

http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/index.php/cat/autism

I highly recommend going through it and seeing what tickles your fancy. This site is how I was made aware of these last two books I listed.

I have already ordered but not yet received:

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
by Dawn Prince-Hughes

I thought something subjective may be more real, and I have aspirations to writing something down so seeing what someone with aspergers can get away with autobiographically... more self justification.

I will place your recomendations in the two be read queue, probably the first one first as I am interested with adults with aspergers, mainly as a club I never thought I was part of. Naive. I am looking for a rational for things I do and examples of how it is ok to be like this and work, marry, have kids, grow old, and feel part of a community: Aspergers and NT.

I do have a feeling of regressing into dreams of academic knowledge (physics and the like), which since I read slowly might crowd other things out. Balance and compromise, hardly Aspergers traits (?) not like I would know.

Ok in brief thanks, essay over.

I think Jane Pauley had Dawn Prince-Hughes on her show when they did one on Aspergers. She seemed very shy. Of course, in a studio setting like that, I should have acted the exact same way I'm sure.

Can I grill someone about aspergers, and or be grilled? What I have taken from what I have read does not amount to a hill of beans. A club to join, but I would not want to join a club that would have me as a mmber - Groucho Marx.

Maybe I need to talk to someone young and opinionated who believes they have all the answers. Maybe I am just afraid they think I have the answers, or maybe worse take the wrong answers from me.
[I just messaged someone with breakdown/aspergers/geek/male profile I suppose there is a danger of spamming people.]

Perhaps I need to fill a questionare and then see how other people fill it in.

I am full of ideas about what other people can do to aid my progress, I even try to opem up to other people, but there not often really there when I am really there.

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