who's playing this game?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ness on 2005 August 21, 20:45:43
I'm actually a little surprised that in the time I've been sleeping, nobody has come out yelling that there is no such thing as chronic fatigue syndrome... it appears to be one of the least understood conditions, simply because it's not a condition itself but a blanket diagnostic name given to a whole bunch of symptoms that arise from metabolic disorders...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is called LAZINESS. You are simply FAT and LAZY. And need MORE CAFFEINE.
Quote from: Hairfish on 2005 August 21, 23:30:17
Thank you all for talking about Asperger's Syndrome. My son, now 25, was given a diagnosis of ADHD at age 4, then "non-specific schizophreniform disorder" at age 13. This was all before AS had been recognized. He meets all the criteria for AS; his current obsession is with airplanes, and he spends his days playing with a flight simulator. Since you can't force a legal adult into evaluation and treatment without a court order, he will probably remain obsessed with one thing or another (and thus unemployable) forever. He goes to job interviews and talks about...airplanes. ::)
I *STILL* insist this is some imaginary disease they've invented, and that your son is simply an airplane nut. Maybe he should try working at an airport. That should give him plenty of planes.
veilchen:
Well now JM, that's not fair. Just because you are unique, doesn't mean we all are. I mean, we know you can do a hundred and one things at once: fix games, build über-bathrooms, build 8G elevators, conquer the galaxy, shoot your food and beverage, while chewing your caffeine, but these are all things that are JM unique. The rest of us have to be useless logs for several hours at night, can't use caffeine in its pure state, and even go so far as actually cooking our food. And some of us do get sick, including chronically fatigued. I know, a concept completely alien to you El Presidente, but then again, there is no one like you :D
Cross my heart, we didn't invent autism, it's unfortunately very real. Would I lie to you?
Hairfish, I am so sorry to hear this. Unfortunately this still happens today, even though the Diagnostics Manual prohibits diagnosing ADHD when a PDD (Pervasive Development Disorder) is present. However, ADHD symptoms match many Asperger's symptoms and clinicians can overlook symptoms of PDD and simply diagnose ADHD. There is an organisation that helps families with adult familiy members diagnosed with Asperger's. I'm not very familiar with the organisation, but here's the address:
http://www.faaas.org/sitemap.html#services
If you already know about it, I apologize, but it can't hurt to check into it if you didn't.
Brynne:
JM, I thought I got through to you the other day. Someone please send me some Rogaine. I'm going bald.
Hairfish, I guess you just gave me a little window into my son's future. He has his obsessions, too, although I wish they were as exciting as airplanes. Jamie can tell you every make of garage-door opener there is, how many buttons it has, if it lights up, comes in a keychain version...I don't know how many times we've gone to Home Depot to get paint supplies or something, and had to make an hour-long stop at the garage door section. And at stop lights, if the car next to us had a garage door opener clipped to its visor, Jamie would roll down his window and yell at the guy so he could ask what kind it was. I would just be staring straight ahead at the stop light, begging for it to turn green! For me, this was a step up from his earlier obsession with windshield wipers. He still will occasionally ask me what kind of windshield wipers someone's car had, and since they all look the same to me, I'd be at a loss for an answer, thus provoking a melt-down. I bought him a disposable camera, took him on a trip to a used car lot, and let him photograph all the windshields so he could put the pictures in a photo album. All the while, salesmen are following us around, puzzled. Jamie is extremely artistic. Whether it's windshield wipers, or garages, he would make such detailed paper models of them. I mean detailed. The garages would have paneled doors that were on paper (or cardboard, rather) "rails", so you could actually open and close them. There would be the garage door whatchamawhozit on the ceiling, with a tag hanging down. 3D masterpieces, and as soon as he finished one, he would abandon it to create an even better one. Currently, he's obsessed with super-heroes, and makes comic books. They all have to have their arm chopped off so it can be replaced by a mechanical one. He thinks that's so cool.
You do definitely learn to have a sense of humor about these things!
Ness:
right, I'm just not as awesome as JM... however, I will not let anyone call me lazy, when for the last five years since I was diagnosed I've remained in full time employment!
the conditions I have may slow me down but I don't let them stop me in any way, except for perhaps the odd day here and there...
I've worked with kids who aspergers before - one of them (who we were told was inceredibly severe) actually progressed to the point where he could make jokes with us... He would have finished school by now, sadly I moved on to another one and never did hear what became of him.
Ness
knitro:
I'm a mech. engineer, but during college I worked in a frame shop, so theres a little are, but mostly i'm an enginerd. and I LOVE the sims. :)
Also, my dad's girlfriend's cousin's son, (seriously) has asperger's and does not socialize well at all, but reads alot and can regurgitate it years later, amazing.
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