I had a stroke

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That is why I was away for 2 weeks. Some weakness,numbness left hand and leg. Speech and Autistic mind are untouched!! !!. So now I have two neurological differences. Speaking of adjusting to change, Yikes!! !!. Proudest moment, I survived the sensory hell known as MRI. I wanted definitive results


NT hell. Everybody kept asking how I was doing?. I just suffered a stroke and was laying in a strange hospital bed what a dumb question. So I said OK considering the circumstances. They seem to accept this.

Ouch! That sucks.

Good thing you had no worse reactions or long-term disorders. I bet you were constantly being asked how you are because, with strokes, they want to continuously determine if you are having additional strokes. They can occur in bunches. But, it can get annoying being asked how you are.

Funny thing with MRIs. When I had my spinal scan a few years ago, I hated the noise for the first 10-15 minutes and then realized that it sounded like a very out-of-tune banjo! Made me laugh, and, after that, it was weirdly soothing. I actually fell asleep while the rest of the scan (90 minutes) was going on.

This is the thing that scares me most.

I hope you get better.

Sorry to hear that, best wishes for a good recovery!

Hey Buddy,

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Many of the things which you've "lost" because of the stroke are recoverable.

I'm glad you didn't lose that mind!

Yikes indeed. I'm glad for you that the outcome hasn't included a significant loss of functions. Its nice to see you back.

Hospitals, loss of functioning, losing the familiar routines, and the fear of losing the ability to do what's familiar and makes us feel safe.....terrifying!! I am glad you're out and home (if you are) and either way I wish you a speedy recovery.

Is anyone there for you?

I think the fact that he's able to post here--and that he still has his mind--is 3/4's of the battle won!

I'm home with elderly parents with their own issues. Actually dad is is the same hospital I was in now. Brother and sister helping a lot.

I did "disclose" to the neurologists . I think it went in one ear and out the other so to to speak. I am hoping one gets curious. We need research in how these "senior" issues and autism mesh.

Thanks everybody. Getting back here is important

Congrats on coming through so well!

My dad lost the right side of his field of vision when he had his stroke. I'm sorry you went through this, but glad the result isn't worse. You have my sympathies over the MRI, I had one a few years ago and it was an ordeal.

Glad to hear you're feeling better!

I get the impression that medical doctors could care less about Asperger's. They don't study it in medical school.

Psychiatrists can specialize in autism. I found a few universities on the web that offer it. UBC's faculty of medicine for instance. It's pediatric though. Which I think is the problem. Why study adult autistics? We're just going go die off. The future is in early diagnosis.

I hope you get well soon.

I have slowly come to realize that what doctors do is look for groups of symptoms that match the profiles for known medical conditions (diagnosis) and then recommend established procedures and interventions for those conditions. They are not very concerned with the psychological state of the patient (unless that data is diagnostically significant).

If they want some info that can be obtained from an MRI in order to clarify or confirm a complicated diagnostic situation, they order that test. The fact that the test may be a sensory nightmare for one patient and merely boring for another doesn't enter into their thinking at all, and won't unless it's so bad it prevents the patient from going through the testing procedure.