Venger wrote:
sharkattack wrote:
However there is a small but growing problem of people without an official diagnosis being treated as 2nd class by some.
That Elliot Rodger fool was a perfect example of something very bad that can happen as a result of someone not having an official Dx. Just cause his mom was obviously biased against claiming her son had something else such as personality-disorder of some sort. I'm pretty sure he never posted on here but still...
That's a bit different I think, not that the media cares. Most of us here who are nor officially diagnosed had people tell us that they thought we were autistic/aspergers. I myself have been told that by five different people over the last 4 years. And from that we did a lot of research and test taking to be comfortable with an know that we are somewhere on the spectrum regardless.
For Elliot, he did see a Shrink and the shrink gave him a few anti-anxiety/depression pills and swept him under the rug. (Elliot didn't actually take the drugs beyond the first few days.) He never considered himself to be autistic. The shrink didn't either (not that's relevant necessarily in this case) and we have no record of people thinking of him as being on the spectrum before the killing.
Basically his mother decided that it would be the best excuse to call him that, a sort of media shield. It isn't a self-diagnosis, like those of us on here. It's someone else with an agenda.
15 Sep 2014, 4:54 pm
