Any side dissorders?
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The list grows longer as I get older. Fibromyalgia, arthritis, ASD of course, major depression, cervical stenosis, etc.
Ready for the glue factory at 53.... LOL
Ready for the glue factory at 53.... LOL
when I was young I collected fun things, now at a similar age I collect aches and pains, dust and disorder. getting closer to the recycle bin.
wozeree wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
auditory processing disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, tourettes, ADHD [inattentive subtype], avoidant personality disorder, arthritis in SI joints and other places, scoliosis 15 degrees t8-t14, one leg roughly an inch shorter than the other, etc. I was assembled at quitting time on a Friday afternoon, out of cast-off leftover parts, it would seem.
You can be diagnosed with StPD and autism at the same time? I did not know that.
Not trying to pick on you, though. I had just been reading about it.
StPd as a child, AS as an adult.
I know that knowing a person online isn't the same as knowing them in person, but you don't seem like you have schizotypal personality disorder to me. Back in the olden days when you were a kid - did they even know what the heck they were doing?
^i was just going to say the same thing. there are a good number of clinicians out there to this very day who don't have a very good conception of what autism looks like (especially on the mild end of the spectrum), and i don't think it's at all uncommon for it to be mistaken for various other disorders like StPD.
my list is: bipolar disorder, avoidant PD, asperger's, complex PTSD (the last two i got around the same time.) no fries, i'm dieting.
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wozeree wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
auditory processing disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, tourettes, ADHD [inattentive subtype], avoidant personality disorder, arthritis in SI joints and other places, scoliosis 15 degrees t8-t14, one leg roughly an inch shorter than the other, etc. I was assembled at quitting time on a Friday afternoon, out of cast-off leftover parts, it would seem.
You can be diagnosed with StPD and autism at the same time? I did not know that.
Not trying to pick on you, though. I had just been reading about it.
StPd as a child, AS as an adult.
I know that knowing a person online isn't the same as knowing them in person, but you don't seem like you have schizotypal personality disorder to me. Back in the olden days when you were a kid - did they even know what the heck they were doing?
all I know is that one shrink wrote in his notes "...schizotypal" and the other shrink wrote "...schizoid" so there may be some kind of trend there. I wasn't supposed to peek at their notes but I did when they left the office. they told my parents and suggested that eventually I might need to be institutionalized but they could not afford that so I was just put in special ed for several years.
auntblabby wrote:
wozeree wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
auditory processing disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, tourettes, ADHD [inattentive subtype], avoidant personality disorder, arthritis in SI joints and other places, scoliosis 15 degrees t8-t14, one leg roughly an inch shorter than the other, etc. I was assembled at quitting time on a Friday afternoon, out of cast-off leftover parts, it would seem.
You can be diagnosed with StPD and autism at the same time? I did not know that.
Not trying to pick on you, though. I had just been reading about it.
StPd as a child, AS as an adult.
I know that knowing a person online isn't the same as knowing them in person, but you don't seem like you have schizotypal personality disorder to me. Back in the olden days when you were a kid - did they even know what the heck they were doing?
all I know is that one shrink wrote in his notes "...schizotypal" and the other shrink wrote "...schizoid" so there may be some kind of trend there. I wasn't supposed to peek at their notes but I did when they left the office. they told my parents and suggested that eventually I might need to be institutionalized but they could not afford that so I was just put in special ed for several years.
Wow, not being rich saved you!
I wonder how much those labels affected you throughout your life.
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wozeree wrote:
Wow, not being rich saved you! I wonder how much those labels affected you throughout your life.
all I know is that I had to get a shrink to sign off on my waivers for military service. but since reading those notes I always knew I was warped in some ways. but I suppressed conscious knowledge of it unless it was put in my face by people who confronted me for what they saw as my weirdness and uncanny valley-ness.
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littlebee wrote:
Not to take it off the funny note which does hit things on the 'spot,', but all of this stuff is interconnected with the central person who is interconnected with everything else, so to think of being autistic as the central disorder misses seeing something really very important about the world and oneself probably tends to feed into and reinforce whatever kind of disorder or disorders one really does have and may even lead to further disorder. This is not implying to not think about oneself and the problems one does have, but there are different ways to think about things, some more productive than others.
You kind of lost me here. But what you said sounds really interesting, so would you mind explaining more?
Thanks!
Yeah, sorry...I can get kind of carried away and think people will understand. What I meant is why think of anything as the central disorder? That is disordered thinking, as how would a disordered mind even know? The way one is thinking about things is the disorder, and/or sometimes (but not always) even that one is thinking about this stuff. Obviously a disordered mind is not going to be able to sort it out about all these various disorders (and so-called disorders, in that some of the people here on WP are saying their disorders are not even disorders, but it is other people who have the disorder, and probably in some cases this is even true).
For instance, re choosing a therapist who is giving all or some of this diagnostic data--some of these guys can be helpful but some are psycho therapists. An autistic person can be very naive and gullible--at least such is admitted by many here --so how would they/we know what therapist to choose and whether they are psycho or not? This is not intended to be about therapists per se in this instance, but just a handy example.
The key point is that whatever way a person is responding in any given circumstances has many different factors playing into it, so the way he is responding is according to the way his mind is factoring data. If someone harms me or is very kind to me, I cannot really say I am not connected to them in some way. If this were so then there would be no way for me to even respond, as everything and everyone would be disembodied, so it would all make no sense. On a physical level everything is in some way interconnected. .
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I'll have a side disorder of French fries.
I started reading this thread. Now I am craving fries and special sauce.
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littlebee wrote:
ImeldaJace wrote:
littlebee wrote:
Not to take it off the funny note which does hit things on the 'spot,', but all of this stuff is interconnected with the central person who is interconnected with everything else, so to think of being autistic as the central disorder misses seeing something really very important about the world and oneself probably tends to feed into and reinforce whatever kind of disorder or disorders one really does have and may even lead to further disorder. This is not implying to not think about oneself and the problems one does have, but there are different ways to think about things, some more productive than others.
You kind of lost me here. But what you said sounds really interesting, so would you mind explaining more?
Thanks!
Yeah, sorry...I can get kind of carried away and think people will understand. What I meant is why think of anything as the central disorder? That is disordered thinking, as how would a disordered mind even know? The way one is thinking about things is the disorder, and/or sometimes (but not always) even that one is thinking about this stuff. Obviously a disordered mind is not going to be able to sort it out about all these various disorders (and so-called disorders, in that some of the people here on WP are saying their disorders are not even disorders, but it is other people who have the disorder, and probably in some cases this is even true).
For instance, re choosing a therapist who is giving all or some of this diagnostic data--some of these guys can be helpful but some are psycho therapists. An autistic person can be very naive and gullible--at least such is admitted by many here --so how would they/we know what therapist to choose and whether they are psycho or not? This is not intended to be about therapists per se in this instance, but just a handy example.
The key point is that whatever way a person is responding in any given circumstances has many different factors playing into it, so the way he is responding is according to the way his mind is factoring data. If someone harms me or is very kind to me, I cannot really say I am not connected to them in some way. If this were so then there would be no way for me to even respond, as everything and everyone would be disembodied, so it would all make no sense. On a physical level everything is in some way interconnected. .
Thanks! Now it makes sense! I guess everything sort of ends up as being a bit paradoxal
auntblabby wrote:
ritualdrama wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
I'll have a side disorder of French fries.
I started reading this thread. Now I am craving fries and special sauce.
I want an assburger with onion rings and tartar sauce
Sorry, just had to.
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