Finally know who I am... sort of

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I finally got an answer to what I was seeking. I'm not aspie, but indeed I'm a very eccentric person with mild ADHD and some sort of mood disorder. My non-verbal cue abilities and conversation skills are too good.

I fidget instead of stim and hyperfocus instead of obsess? What are the differences between these things, I don't understand.

Anyway, I love wrongplanet and want to stick around as someone with some aspie-like things, and NT like things going on, maybe I can help bridge the gap so to speak.

Anyway, what in the world do I put down as dx in the profile now???

Not AS but Odd Friendly? Friendly Odd?

Or play it straight and say mild ADHD with Mood Disorder... do you know which one yet? Such a menu to choose from these days...

In any case... welcome as another Ambassador of the NTs...

Oh, they are not sure what mood disorder, most likely bipolar. But anyway ty.

Well, that would call into question your credentials as an NT. So you could just be another attendee of the neurodiversity swarm here.

I've got both a cousin and a friend who are bipolar... that's a toughie, but like AS there's some work-arounds. My 70+ cousin has held a job her whole life, is now happily retired. So hang in there!

Hey he is NOT NT

"I fidget instead of stim and hyperfocus instead of obsess? What are the differences between these things, I don't understand."

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I don't understand the differences there much, either! I most definitely obsess on my special interests, but I also always hyperfocus when I obsess on them. As for stimming, it might very well look like "fidgeting" to others. Although I can tell by comparing my behavior with "certified" autistics that what I do is a form of stimming.

You're sure you're not splitting hairs too much there? My thinking easily gets too "complicated" and I miss the forest for the trees sometimes.

Dan

Cousins Yay, glad you figured it out.

Not quite autistic, but also not typical, hey... we need all we can get. Often times autistic people see eye to eye with non-autistic eccentrics, way better than with people who are close to typical.

Hey, has your doc checked the possibility of cyclothymia? If you've got something like bipolar, but it isn't obvious, maybe you could mention the long-term, milder variant to your doctor.

It can't be cyclothymia, I've had full blown mania before.

Nightsun, were you talking about me, I'm a she, you would not be the first one that said my pic looked like a guy though!

Yeah, my Aspie Quiz and AQ tests both say I'm slightly below the spectrum, and my therapist says I have some traits, but I don't quite act like the aspies he has as clients.

Basically I have special interests, stimming like crazy, bad social skills, and meltdowns but I understand non-verbal cues and I understand all the rules of the NT's behavior.

I've had people swear up and down I'm an aspie and people swear up and down I am not, which is why I was confused so long.

I took this video down, but on Youtube I used to have a video where I described my dx and other disorders to see if people could agree. I had the mentally ill people say I was just mentally ill, while the aspies thought I was aspie... it was kind of funny, lol.