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15 Dec 2013, 4:14 am

Feralucce wrote:

>>> Part 55 <<< - You think YOUR teen years were hard.

You nailed it!

Were you watching me?

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15 Dec 2013, 4:15 am

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>>>Part 55<<< - Why Does He Have to Talk? - or - Nonverbal Events

I so need that T-Shirt though. :lol:

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15 Dec 2013, 6:47 am

Moomingirl wrote:

Feralucce wrote:

>>> Part 55 <<< - You think YOUR teen years were hard.

You nailed it!

Were you watching me?

Nope...just lived it myself

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18 Dec 2013, 4:43 pm

>>>Part 57<<< - POV, Acceptance and the Need for Education

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21 Dec 2013, 6:06 pm

Self Advocacy - Part 53
"We experience the world through a miswired brain... and we don't have the frame of reference to even express the differences"

miswired?

Don't you mean different?

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21 Dec 2013, 6:09 pm

Part 54

And that is what her statement is... "You aren't Autistic... You HAVE autism." is a way of saying that I am not defined by my disease...

Do you feel diseased? I don't.

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21 Dec 2013, 6:17 pm

Just to qualify my statements - I like your writing and the contents hold so much truth. It's only the referencing to people like us as bungled NT's I find inaccurate and subjective.

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21 Dec 2013, 6:31 pm

Part 52

And it was because I was told that there was nothing wrong with me... I believed it... I believed it to the very center of my being...

How about: because I believed that I did not need to understand the mechanisms of those around me. I was fine they were wrong, I could not see their gifts were different. Different...not lesser, but outnumbered.

Probably not a lyrical as yours, but i've made my point now i think .

Btw, amazing posts that speak to be - hence my comments.

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21 Dec 2013, 6:35 pm

So... I have dedicated a lot of words in this blog to the importance of getting an official diagnosis when dealing with... Well... I've focused on Asperger's and Autism, but really... It is important to get a diagnosis for ANY mental health issue... but that is not what I need discuss to today...

Is it! A mental health diagnosis may well be like a criminal record if your not careful!

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21 Dec 2013, 7:56 pm

oncewasahippy wrote:

Self Advocacy - Part 53
"We experience the world through a miswired brain... and we don't have the frame of reference to even express the differences"

miswired?

Don't you mean different?

No. I do not.

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21 Dec 2013, 7:58 pm

oncewasahippy wrote:

Part 54

And that is what her statement is... "You aren't Autistic... You HAVE autism." is a way of saying that I am not defined by my disease...

Do you feel diseased? I don't.

Congratulations... I am happy that you do not... go back through the issues in that series, and my opinion (and medical fact) are made clear on the topic of disease.

you are putting connotations on a word that are not inherent in the definition of that word.

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21 Dec 2013, 8:01 pm

oncewasahippy wrote:

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Btw, amazing posts that speak to be - hence my comments.

I appreciate the comments, but I am unlikely to reword things... What makes my writing work is that it is how I view the word... any substitution of wording provided by someone else will not have my voice, and therefore, it lessens the impact and will ring false against the voice I have chosen as the tones of the piece...

Also, in most cases, suggested rewordings do not have the exact precise meaning as what I said...

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21 Dec 2013, 8:02 pm

oncewasahippy wrote:

1) medical records are confidential.
2) Yes.
3) Without a diagnosis, you are a hypochondriac that has looked up a mental condition.

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21 Dec 2013, 8:21 pm

"Without a diagnosis, you are a hypochondriac that has looked up a mental condition."

Surely that statement is contradictory? Sorry for the nit picking...In England medical records are not necessarily private during a Job induction process.

But in summary I honestly feel my shortcomings are of equal weight to an NT's shortcomings. I don't feel like I have a disease, or that there is anything wrong with me. Miswired? No, I just feel different from most. Plain and simple.

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21 Dec 2013, 8:27 pm

I think my opinion can be held without diminishing the need for aspie type people to be properly supported, and made able to deal with an NT world.

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21 Dec 2013, 9:53 pm

oncewasahippy wrote:

*sigh* you know what I meant... I am not interested in nit picking when intent is clear.

And again, good for you. But by definition, we do... I stand by my writing.

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