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EvoVari
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15 Mar 2009, 7:31 pm

dougn wrote:
I am not saying that having a partner with AS and one without it can't cause relationship problems but here we have Aston inventing her own mental disorder that just happens to be exactly the same as SAD except it's caused by having a partner with Asperger's rather than by winter ... come on, is this really believable?

EvoVari wrote:
By then end of the year my transformation in behaviour and rigid thinking should be complete with psychological and vision therapy. I will never speak of my diagnoses of AS again and get on with living.

What on earth does that mean?

You sound ashamed to have AS. :(


How you could compare SAD with CADD is disappointing. Perhaps you should firstly speak to NT and AS partners who have endured the effect before making uninformed assumptions. I do not feel the effect is a seperate disorder but a real consquence of different thinking and the AS partner unable to reciprocate emotional closeness.

Not in the least. I feel to many people affected get 'Bogged down" with the negative impact AS has in their lives and do not look at practical solutions too improve their well-being. AS is not my badge of honour, it is a neurological difference that I must understand and manage. Once I have exhausted helpful therapies/counselling and feel I can function without much impairment the label has no practical function.



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15 Mar 2009, 9:16 pm

EvoVari wrote:
How you could compare SAD with CADD is disappointing.

How I could compare it? Aston openly admits that she modeled CADD on SAD. It's right on her web site!

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What is CADD? - The easiest way to understand it is to relate it to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is caused by sunlight deprivation; this can cause a neurochemical imbalance in the brain. ... SAD is very, very real! However where SAD is about sunlight deprivation - CADD is about emotional deprivation! The CADD sufferer experiences similar symptoms to those of the SAD sufferer. However there is a more damaging effect upon the CADD sufferer insofar as it is another human being, they probably love, who is responsible, usually unintentionally, for their emotional deprivation - this can be a partner or a parent.

See here.