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Rabbit
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Joined: 25 Nov 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 21
Location: Pontiac Michigan

03 Dec 2005, 10:02 pm

Hello guys and gals.

I really like this site and like to know people in the wrong planet community. I teach science and math in the Detroit area. I am have published small amounts of poetry in very little known publications. I also paint surreal art. I have a wife who is completely blind. She has a Leader Dog. We also have to two rabbits and a cat as pets.

My wife calls me rabbit because my hair is soft like bunny fur, because I like vegetables and because what you might call my stereotipies reminder her of the way a rabbit shakes.

I would really like to get to know you folks, but I wonder what kind of sensitivity level the typical wrong planet member has. I could imagine two things: either most wrong planet members are very understanding of small errors made by other members because they struggle with social skills themselves or that they simply have been the target of so much animosity that they developed more their own sensitivity.

Reality is that a lot of people tell me that they don’t like me. Struggling with details like spelling and grammar can offend people (I improve bit by bit but never get it perfect), losses of attention and those moments when you realize what someone was really telling you two days after they say can be offensive.

I never had real assistance with my disability, which is real. I only got a diagnosis was I was 32. My sister had a wrong diagnosis, schizophrenia (that diagnosis did her very little good because they burned out with wrong medication). My mother became afraid of doctors and became fairly abusive towards me. She also scared my father off. This all forced me very much to fend for my self in a world that I feel did not understand me.

A campus psychologist diagnosed me when I was in graduate school; I was hoping that the diagnosis would get me some real help. The main help that I got was medicine that makes me a little more alert than I would be otherwise and also gives me some facial expression.

Efforts to make friends were often terrible failures. There was a period when I withdrew a lot from other people for practical reasons. The risks of generating animosity were too great when I working on a PhD. I had learned that arguments are sometimes very costly. Now I am past that and I am working at making friends including the fact that I’d like to get to know some of you.

ZedSimon
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Gender: Male
Posts: 722
Location: Alone At The Lunch Table

03 Dec 2005, 11:21 pm

Geez, aren't misdiagnoses fun? I also had schizophrenia for a while, according to one doctor. Was on Mellaril for about a year...then was on Moban and became a total zombie because of the tranquilizing effects it had. Then Haldol, which was better, but as we found out, totally unnecessary. haven't been on anything since, except for a brief fling with Effexor, which didn't really seem to do much.

Anyway, nice to have a fellow grammarista with us. We need more of your kind here - and in the real world. Looking forward to more of your posts!

Bec
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