Strapples appreciation thread

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Fogman i am practically throwing your opinion out since you didnt put any type of valid reason... just "Down with strapples as well" is a total bullsh*t reason to not like someone...

I was born on August 8th 1991. Two+ weeks premature. I spent the first 4 years of my life in a Romanian orphanage, on the third-year one of the caretakers attempted to kill me by throwing me down the stairs, I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury. I remember waking up in the hospital. Because of the premature birth and traumatic brain injury I am severely multiply disabled. I was transferred to a hospital in Bucharest for 6 months, after which I was transferred to an orphanage in Transylvanian Alps. There, I would stay until my adoptive parents brought me to America, to the northwest suburbs of Illinois.

December of 2006 I had lost the ability to eat solid foods, and my appetite was diminishing, I began losing weight rapidly, early February 2007 I weighed 97 pounds.

Freshman year in high school was miserable for me. Over the last year my hormones have been changing, it was very noticeable that my condition was declining very rapidly the end of February into March.

My condition forced us to completely pull me out of school in April. In April we scheduled an emergency neurological assessment appointment since my condition seemed to be progressive, and I began having seizures, The neurologist scheduled us for a 24 hour ambulatory EEG where we brought the equipment home, and it was taking an EEG for 24 hours straight, when the doctor saw the EEG result he was unable to make a diagnosis. We waited another month and then went downtown to UIC to another neurologist, who made another inconclusive diagnosis.

My case has become so complex that we were forced to find a new pediatrician. Dr. Corrie A. Harris, we saw her for the first time and she took a baseline evaluation. Two weeks after the baseline, she took a look at me and said, “oh no, you need to go to the hospital now!” She called Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago and initiated the admission process. Later that day we saw the neurologist who noticed I have kyphosis and scoliosis and sent me down for a series of spinal X-Rays which revealed that my kyphosis was at 80 degrees and my scoliosis was at 14 degrees. In February, my kyphosis was 40 degrees, and my scoliosis was 1 degree. The neurologist also did a standard neurological exam revealing several major neurological issues.

I was supposed to sleep until midnight last night and then stay up for todays 15 minute EEG recording, the EEG recording did not show any useful data to the doctors. After the EEG recording I was taken to audiology for testing which revealed hearing loss at 8000 Hz. Later today I would have a blood drawing and urine sample taken. Both of which would yield results signaling neuromuscular disease.

On the third-day there were almost no tests which made for a very boring day until one of the teen lounge volunteers came to my room to notify me that they even had a lounge for patients, I said, “Damn wish I knew about this the last two days” because all of the tests were MAYBE 4 hours a day which left me with truckloads of remaining empty time. Around 9:00 PM today the neurologist would tell me that I am going down for a spinal MRI to get a more detailed image of things. MRI usually closes at 8:00 PM though takes one ICU patient at 9:00 PM, I was taken in on that ICU slot.

On the fourth day The neurologist came in the room with a diagnosis, the diagnosis was neuromuscular degenerative disease NOS. She sent me down to get neck X-rays before I was discharged, they were taken on a 2 week old digital X-ray machine; the result came back as cervical instability, which put simply means that my spine in my neck is not stable and is much more vulnerable. The neurologist discharged me with a gene mapping work order.

that entire comment was not directed at you. just that single line was. and i am sorry if it seemed pissy but i just woke up to seeing an email in my inbox for this thread and had to go through pages of cecil and ebec11 bantering back and forth about how to solve cecils problem with me.

its not that i am pissed off at you, i am just purly annoyed right now.

He made my internet connection slower, by posting large images. I will never like Strapples, and no one can force me to like him. Once I dislike someone, that's it. I'll never like them again. Why don't people understand that I hate him?

You people have to understand. like some very few autistics here on this site i am not one of your aspies and or very high functioning people...

i have PDD-NOS and i have practically self diagnosed myself for MFA-HFA with the help of many hours of research, i will be confirming that diagnosis when i get a chance and if i get a chance due to how much other medical crap goes on with me...

so you people really need to understand, i am not anywhere near as high functioning as you people.

call yourselves lucky, because from day one in my life even when i was physically ok i couldnt take care of myself. (LFA trait)

from day one my obsessions have been so strong that it takes over my life (HFA-MFA)

from day one i could not tolerate being in any social setting without going berserk (HFA-MFA-LFA)

there are loads of other things about me that do NOT point to aspieness...

you people need to understand that i am NOT an aspie, and if you guys cannot start understanding i will go into full gear in accelerating my forum's growth, which is designed for people with all disabilities, not just aspergers...

maybe i should have thought twice about signing up on an "The online resource and communit fot those with Asperger's Syndrome...

maybe i should have never signed up on this website...

Berserker, has valid reasons to not like me

Fogman i am practically throwing your opinion out since you didnt put any type of valid reason... just "Down with strapples as well" is a total bullsh*t reason to not like someone...

that entire comment was not directed at you. just that single line was. and i am sorry if it seemed pissy but i just woke up to seeing an email in my inbox for this thread and had to go through pages of cecil and ebec11 bantering back and forth about how to solve cecils problem with me.

its not that i am pissed off at you, i am just purly annoyed right now.

I was only trying to help her...do you not like me anymore? I moved it to PM when I realized that I shouldn't be using the boards to help Cecil.
I don't think she truly has a problem with you, I just believe that she's just stuck in negativity. (Personal opinon, no flames)
I wasn't bantering :(:(

you werent bantering, you were just trying to help cecil with her negativity problems, which she could use help with, too

theres nothing wrong with what you did

You sure? Because I didn't mean to upset Strapples at all, and it's hard to read whether I did or not.
Why did you pick 886 anyways? I would have done 911 if it didn't have such relations with 9/11 and emergancy, because it has this ring to it that I love. It just sounds "right" to me.

I don't quite know. I used it for my Diablo II account when I used to play, so I just stuck with it.

If I could change it, my username would be Rosenrot, that's what it is at most other forums.

I saw someone had taken the name "rosered" which is english for Rosenrot, so I decided not to use it.

What language is Rosenrot from?

German.

It's also the latest album name to my favorite band, Rammstein.

I think it's much different then Rosered. They probably used it to describe the Roses are Red or something like that instead of the name of a German song