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when I was young I collected fun things, now at a similar age I collect aches and pains, dust and disorder. getting closer to the recycle bin.

None... which is why many perceive me to be mild.

^i was just going to say the same thing. there are a good number of clinicians out there to this very day who don't have a very good conception of what autism looks like (especially on the mild end of the spectrum), and i don't think it's at all uncommon for it to be mistaken for various other disorders like StPD.

my list is: bipolar disorder, avoidant PD, asperger's, complex PTSD (the last two i got around the same time.) no fries, i'm dieting.

all I know is that one shrink wrote in his notes "...schizotypal" and the other shrink wrote "...schizoid" so there may be some kind of trend there. I wasn't supposed to peek at their notes but I did when they left the office. they told my parents and suggested that eventually I might need to be institutionalized but they could not afford that so I was just put in special ed for several years.

Wow, not being rich saved you!

I wonder how much those labels affected you throughout your life.

all I know is that I had to get a shrink to sign off on my waivers for military service. but since reading those notes I always knew I was warped in some ways. but I suppressed conscious knowledge of it unless it was put in my face by people who confronted me for what they saw as my weirdness and uncanny valley-ness.

I have ASD, GAD (severe), depending on doctor Bipolar 1 with psychotic features or schizoaffective bipolar type, fibromyalgia, migraines, high blood pressure, and others I can't remember at this moment.

Yeah, sorry...I can get kind of carried away and think people will understand. What I meant is why think of anything as the central disorder? That is disordered thinking, as how would a disordered mind even know? The way one is thinking about things is the disorder, and/or sometimes (but not always) even that one is thinking about this stuff. Obviously a disordered mind is not going to be able to sort it out about all these various disorders (and so-called disorders, in that some of the people here on WP are saying their disorders are not even disorders, but it is other people who have the disorder, and probably in some cases this is even true).

For instance, re choosing a therapist who is giving all or some of this diagnostic data--some of these guys can be helpful but some are psycho therapists. An autistic person can be very naive and gullible--at least such is admitted by many here --so how would they/we know what therapist to choose and whether they are psycho or not? This is not intended to be about therapists per se in this instance, but just a handy example.

The key point is that whatever way a person is responding in any given circumstances has many different factors playing into it, so the way he is responding is according to the way his mind is factoring data. If someone harms me or is very kind to me, I cannot really say I am not connected to them in some way. If this were so then there would be no way for me to even respond, as everything and everyone would be disembodied, so it would all make no sense. On a physical level everything is in some way interconnected. .

I started reading this thread. Now I am craving fries and special sauce.

I want an assburger with onion rings and tartar sauce

Thanks! Now it makes sense! I guess everything sort of ends up as being a bit paradoxal

ASD and low vision (myopia, strabismus, and nystagmus - I have tiny optic nerves and I'll just have more issues as I age).

Social Anxiety; Seizures; immunodeficiency; macular degeneration; osteoarthritis; depression; severe lack of confidence; GAD.

Panic disorder, GERD, Seasonal allergies.

Sorry, just had to.

I used to be a stickler for exact detail in all my food. I still am but not as harrumphing about it as I used to be. I don't know if that is part of a mental dysfunction or psychological dysfunction, or not.