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Do you have PTSD?
Aspie, yes 13%  13%  [ 4 ]
Aspie, no 52%  52%  [ 16 ]
NT, yes 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
NT, no 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Uncertain, yes 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Uncertain, no 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
Aspie, uncertain 19%  19%  [ 6 ]
NT, uncertain 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Uncertain, uncertain 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
Other 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 31

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10 Mar 2011, 10:49 pm

Aargh, I'm really sorry. If I ask "do you have PTSD?" I'll get disproportionately many people who DO, though.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is probably something you know more about than I do if you have it, since I don't and haven't read about it. All I know about it is that it's a reaction to traumatic events and involves flashbacks. At least, I think that information is correct. I'm sure it's a really big topic and I don't know anything about it.

So basically, I want to know if it's more or less common in us than in NTs. If the results are promising I might run some more polls with more specifics. "Aspie" here is general everyone-on-the-spectrum Aspie. If you're a non-NT non-Aspie (for instance, if you were schizophrenic), pick other, although I guess that's probably not the only reason to pick other (but I can't think of any).


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10 Mar 2011, 11:51 pm

I said Aspie/uncertain.

I've been diagnosed with it, primarily because I have rather intense reactions to situations that remind me of trauma (fight reactions). I also have a history of abuse. They're not impairing so much but they make it difficult for me to interact reasonably with people. But I don't think I have enough symptoms that really qualify. It may be that I have the more subtle "complex PTSD."