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Mitch8817
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28 Sep 2008, 1:38 pm

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Anubis: Grow up, I seem to remember you being upset on here *many* times in the past. If we all treated you like you're acting now, how would you feel?

Mosse: If AS hadn't been named, then you wouldn't know what the hell was wrong with you. Perhaps you would be diagnoed with autism, and yet would have felt like it didn't make sense. AS gives you an understanding and a place from which to develop. It allows you to know yourself, and recieve the help we may need at times. AS really isn't the main problem here, but how we deal with it and live with it is. It's certainly one of the most hardest things in life, but improvement starts when you stop laying blame and throwing around anger.


...except I wouldn't think anything was wrong with me, I'd just think I was normal.


No, you would look at other people, realise that you are not like them (you don't socialize as well, you don't like eye contact etc. etc.), but instead of having the closure of knowing what was wrong, and that there was a *reason*, you would attribute it to some weakness or something you weren't understanding, which would make you feel alot worse. You would have noone to associate with and discuss your issues (like you do here), and you would find noone who understood you. And you wouldn't be able to get help. Think about what you're saying.


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28 Sep 2008, 4:17 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:
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If you think you have it bad now, imagine trying to live with the same difficulties a century or two ago.

Hell, try living with the same difficulties twenty years ago! By comparison, this is heaven now - you're no longer dismissed as "delusional" or "schizophrenic" (and given the wrong treatment, if any at all); it's no longer legal to involuntarily commit us to asylums for the crime of not being "normal"; if our symptoms are so great that we can't deal, there are even programs to offer support! Sure, it could be better - but kids, it's been a frak of a lot worse...


Exactly. I have been in lock up twice as a teenager. I've been the diagnosis-of-the-month more times than I want to count. They say 'you are ________, with aspects of _________, and, ______________________________________________________________________________.
Which, said diagnosis would only be completely thrown out by the next shrink, and I became their specialty.

We are different. It can be scary to others, when smart people don't seem to empathize with them in a way that they can understand. Sooo.... In the not so distant past, they would try to stuff us in an institutionalized can somewhere, subvert us, dominate us, legally marginalize us, or just get rid of us in general.

I fit a mold that is predictable now. Now, I'm just "On The Spectrum." They are reassured that I'm not going to blow up buildings, and all is well. I am grateful for this diagnosis that is perceived as generally 'benign' by the Professionals Who Say So, and the research that was done to make it possible.

While I understand your frustration and fear; it could have... boy, it could have been a lot worse for you without it.


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