I'm 63 - live in London - never been "diagnosed" as Asperger's (but a psychologist once asked me, five minutes after first meeting me: "Do you know anything about Asperger's Syndrome?") - I WAS, 44 years ago "diagnosed as "schizophrenic" ("paranoid schizophrenic" to be precise) ....
Last school exam results:
Chemistry
Me: 100%
2nd: 89%
Maths
Me: 100%
2nd: 82%
Physics
Me 100%
2nd 90%
... need I say more?
(I'm a "data processing machine")
Despite never having had any "treatment" for the "incurable insanity" I (supposedly) suffer from, and no further hospitalisations since the first one month involuntary one in 1962, the first thing a doctor reads when they look at my medical records is the word SCHIZOPHRENIA.
As the psychologist said to me: "There is a lot of cross-over between schizophrenia and aspergers ... six other clients of mine were thought to be schizophrenic."
I hope you lot are not to bothered by the fact that I might be a "dangerous nutter" (as many doctors do when they read the stuff psychiatrists said about me in the 60s)?
Meds? Never, ever taken any.
Career? Survivor (I squatted for 15 years). I last worked in 1971.
My reason for coming here is to LEARN. Obviously many of you are a **** (sorry!) sight more "clued-up" than me.
David
04 Nov 2005, 6:33 pm
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