Auties, Aspies, and other CloudCuckooLanders!

I am diagnosed with ADD, and I'm sure any psychiatrist could diagnose me with dozens of other disorders if he/she/it/they tried...

I, too, have been officially diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I've had that label slapped on me since high school.

Yeah, not sure if there's anything more to say on the subject...

Its so nice to see everyone here! Let me tell you all about myself:

I was diagnosed with ADD in the 2nd grade, which was eventually changed to an Aspergers diagnoses by the time I reached 5th grade. I'm taking medication to help me with the trials of life, and its working pretty well. Dont like the meds, but I cant argue with the fact that they help.

Any-hoo, the biggest challenge I face everyday is the over sensitivity to sounds. (My biggest problem used to be the social interactions, but I think my communicating skills have been promoted from "Crazy" to "Odd")

I still have a hard time going to parties, but now that I'm 18 years old I'm not obligated to attend. While I don't make appearances at socially tense gatherings, (like funerals or weddings) I still try to attend the simpler get-togethers (like holiday celbrations) to help hone my social skills.

All in all, I try to focus on the positive aspects of life. If bad stuff comes along I'll do my best to make it better, but if I cant, I wont let it get me down!

How is everyone else? Tell me about yourselves. (If you want to.) And if the diagnoses makes you upset, then treat it like a short description not who you are. It works for me!

In between Not Even Human and Not Quite Human

I was diagnosed later in life like 6th grade, with Aspie-ism, AHDH and OCD . And I'm proud of my Aspie traits but not so much that I'll make excuses for my flaws.

I do not view my Aspie-ism as a disorder but a different order*

and also I do not used medication as I feel that's artificially altering who I'm and if something is to change it should be changed through training and determination not be reliant of medication but that is just my personal belief on the matter for myself and is heavy influenced by my personal philosophical beliefs.*

^{I should mention that this has worked out very well for me and most people do not even realize I'm an Aspie... they just think I'm odd.}

On the other hand I do view of OCD and ADHD as disorders as they actually impede me from things I want to do, but again refuse to medicate them and would rather struggle against them on my own, then with meds.

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Had an interesting self-discovery, after a fashion. I sort of collect characters who remind me of myself at different times of my life (Cara in The Unicorn Chronicles is me in late childhood, the Little Tramp is what I might become, etc.) Yesterday, I played the demo of Katawa Shoujo, and I discovered that the character Hanako is very much like how I was at the height of my various issues. (It's a romance game, the first one I've ever played, and I'd entered her particular arc at the end of the demo. I'm definitely playing that arc first—and maybe exclusively—when the full game comes out, as it may be a good way to exorcise what demons remain. Then again, this might qualify as Screw Yourself . . .)

edited 29th Nov '11 7:35:50 PM by feotakahari

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

...I have tended to have anger issues, and have been doing well managing them with particularly violent games, anyone else here do that?

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Yep, thats very common even in non-autistic and aspies. It's a catharsis

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it feels so good to kill and entire army when your pissed.

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army? no, for me, it's entire nations.

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My niece has the old Jurassic Park Sim game and I use the to reduce my urge to kill everyone...by killing everyone with horde of T-Rex's and Spino's

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I APPROVE!

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I toy with people in any game that will let me, sometimes in ways that's far worse than simply killing them outright.

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I have aspergers! and a slight tendency to talk telepathically to the character 'voices' in my head and I tend to have some Ghost in the Machine functions in there somewhere... (think Hermans Head) But no, I tend to stay sane mostly. Werewolves exist, I hope... (puppy dog eyes)

Sometimes I like to switch on my Spore game...

edited 9th Dec '11 6:27:26 PM by sabrina_diamond

In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!

I like to play as a robot in Timesplitters, then grab a flamethrower and burn everyone to the ground.

But it's totally fine cause they're all magical flying snowman and not humans.

they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob

ok everyone, what's the funnest way to kill a sim?

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Still have to go with "releasing an army of t-Rex and Spinos on to a packed Jurassic park".

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I haven't played a sim game where they could die in years. I mostly just use creative mode in Minecraft and place TNT everywhere and blow the world up until I'm happy or their is no land left that explodes.

edited 10th Dec '11 2:22:45 PM by Vyctorian

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ADHD and PDD-NOS. That's like borderline but not quite Aspie.

Fly High, Seek Peace

This song describe the way I play perfectly:

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Diagnosied Aspie here. With the side effect of having other mental issues but being unable to talk about them.

Diagnosed aspie.

Emotionally sensitive, and easily gets carried away.

Yes, i'm not alone!

edited 23rd Jan '12 2:33:47 AM by eternalNoob

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.

That sounds so familiar :D

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It does!

Crayon97 Yoylecake!

Undignosed Aspie. I actually was noticed being off by my elementary school special ed but didn't go after me since it didn't interfere with my academics.

I've been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and it still causes me issues with fitting in anywhere on or offline, and I'm still trying to find a therapist that will actually HELP as opposed to shove me into a day program instead of help. :(

edited 22nd Feb '12 7:57:04 PM by Clawshrimpy