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trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#276: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:07:10 PM

I don't think specifying anything was a requirement. I just did because I could, and sounded less awkward than just going "hey, its me!".

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#277: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:08:53 PM

I dunno. I'm new here too.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#279: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:16:37 PM

Hi!

I should be more specific and say I'm new to this thread, I've been on the forums for a few months now.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#280: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:17:23 PM

Same here. But I've only been on this forum for a month or less.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#281: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:20:06 PM

Anyway, I was reading the Useful Notes page on Asperger's and was thinking, "damn, I check all those boxes". I was diagnosed when I was young, 3-5ish. I'm 15 now.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#282: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:25:27 PM

I was 8 when I was diagnosed. 2 of my brothers also have some form of ASD.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#283: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:28:49 PM

I'm the only one of my siblings with any kind of mental condition, though sometimes I wonder.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#284: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:31:04 PM

What freaks me out is the fact if my dad wasn't a doctor, none of us would've been diagnosed.

Bleddyn Since: Feb, 2014
#285: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:32:10 PM

I know for a fact that I have some form of OCD. It causes me pain a lot as I will compulsively want to correct the littlest of imperfections when I am cleaning. I am pretty much a clean freak. This extends to my work as well and is the reason why I go under the Serial Tweaker trope.

My brain wants everything to be perfect

edited 24th Aug '15 9:32:59 PM by Bleddyn

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#286: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:35:38 PM

Mine likes to drop intrusive thoughts at the worst moments. I don't have any compulsions.

Asperger's, on the other hand, I suspect to power a couple of funny habits.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#287: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:36:41 PM

I'll be honest, I don't understand OCD that well. I have ADHD, and if fixing something means sustained effect or concentration, its not happening. I know one friend who has OCD, but to be honestly I can't tell OCD things from the rest of her personality, because I'm not good at reading people.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#288: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:45:40 PM

I might be getting this wrong but OCD is basically when your brain gives you these random, disturbing thoughts (Intrusive thoughts), and most people just shrug them off but in OCD you dwell on them (obsession), usually not always developing habits (compulsions) to deal with them, which gets stuck in a feedback loop. It's an anxiety disorder. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Personally I get quite a few obsessions but barely any compulsions.

edited 24th Aug '15 9:46:21 PM by LinkToTheFuture

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#289: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:48:01 PM

That makes a lot of sense. Wow, that is my friend in a nutshell.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#290: Aug 24th 2015 at 9:55:16 PM

The misconceptions about OCD drive me nuts. The TV version of OCD is very wrong.

1)The definig features are the obsessions, not the compulsions.

2)The whole Neat Freak thing is just one of many ways it manifests itself

3) OCD is NOT a funny little quirk! It can get really, really terrifying, and I have it very easy compared to others!

edited 24th Aug '15 10:15:20 PM by LinkToTheFuture

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#291: Aug 24th 2015 at 10:02:25 PM

Mm yeah. I knew OCD was really different from TV. But I didn't know what it was.

I feel really shitty now.

Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#292: Aug 24th 2015 at 10:05:34 PM

Ehh, don't. If TV has been the only way you've really been exposed to it, you can't be blamed for not having all the details right

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LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#293: Aug 24th 2015 at 10:15:45 PM

Yeah, really, there's nothing to feel shitty about.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Bleddyn Since: Feb, 2014
#294: Aug 24th 2015 at 10:23:02 PM

Yeah the TV's depiction of OCD get OCD wrong by a longshot unfortunately. I am on the low end of OCD from what I have heard and read. People on the higher end don't have it nice, let's just put it that way....

As said before. My obsession is perfection. If anything remains out of place in a clean room it drives me insane. This extends to my work, my writing, my behavior, and many other things. I am on the low end because it causes me pain but it doesn't rule my life, the high end people have it that way and it's not fun for them.

edited 24th Aug '15 10:30:21 PM by Bleddyn

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#295: Aug 25th 2015 at 6:23:16 AM

TV gets everything wrong. That they're starting to get Aspergers right is impressive. I've heard of TV writers/producers saying that they're afraid to try to claim a character has Aspergers, in case they get it wrong.

Well, they should try that with everything. Stop saying characters have OCD, ADHD, bipolar, and so on. At least until you've had experts help you verify that you're getting it right.

KingFeraligatr King of Feraligatrs, Typo Master, from why would I tell you where I live? Since: Apr, 2015
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#296: Aug 28th 2015 at 9:44:21 PM

I have been officially diagnosed with a mental disorder (though I won't say what it is). I also think I might have a lot of other diagnosed mental problems as well (don't have the money for a therapist/mental doctor. Plus I don't trust them to a poor record with them). I do have doubts that I have my diagnosed mental problem and tend to only use as an "excuse" for minor things. I use chronic laziness or chronic lack of motivation for "excuses" for all other things. I also don;t saying that I disabilities in fear that others will use it against me in some way (and they will, even if they have that "equal opportunity" bullshit. Prejudice is still very wide spread). I also tend to find the detractors of mentally disabled in the right a lot of times (blame my anti-me bias) and I feel inferior for being born with a mental problem.

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LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#297: Aug 28th 2015 at 9:48:51 PM

I just realized just how much my aversion to eye contact could potentially bite me in the ass. It's frustrating.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Bleddyn Since: Feb, 2014
#298: Aug 28th 2015 at 9:54:03 PM

[up]I have that issue too. I rarely can keep myself in eye contact with people especially when I am nervous or stressed. It bites me pretty bad at times...

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#299: Aug 28th 2015 at 10:01:49 PM

I had to introduce myself to two female new classmates today. I wonder if they noticed that I was looking everywhere but at them. My parents sure did.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
trashconverters from MEL-bun (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
#300: Aug 28th 2015 at 10:02:22 PM

BonsaiForest: but does characters always to be verified to have said disorders by experts? Should people with OCD, ADHD, Asperger's, Bipolar etc. be able to create characters based on their own personal experience. I'm not saying your wrong, people with no prior knowledge need to get their heads out of their arses and do some research; but don't you think characters shouldn't be pathologised? Especially if their going to be role models to others?

edited 28th Aug '15 10:02:43 PM by trashconverters


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