How many others here are like this woman?

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It is interesting, she knows that she has autistic traits, but the two that she has that mark it as clearly autistic are the lack of ability to easily initiate social interaction and maintain it, what she refers to as watching, and the ability to be easily entertained. Given how she acts, and how she describes how she was as a child, I would call THAT AS! It is a shame that it has been so misdiagnosed, that they decided to exclude it as a specific form of autism.

Some "ADHD" likely IS autism. A LOT of "teachers" will call ANY such thing ADHD, and claim that a child has it. My mother told me not too long ago that they tried to get her to give ME an ADHD drug. Somehow, I was SPARED that! If anything, I am TOO attentive. I just don't always SEEM to be, ESPECIALLY with regard to what THEY want me to seem attentive to.

I have to agree with you, it seems like everyone and their dog has an ADHD diagnosis these days. There simply cannot be that many people with ADHD. I think the pharmaceutical companies promote ADHD diagnosis to sell more stimulant drugs.

My younger sister got a fraudulent ADHD diagnosis a couple years ago, and now she is stealing resources meant for truly disabled people. The whole thing makes me feel sick.

I forsee disability benefits and other resources are going to get harder to access in the future when the government smartens up and realizes that people are using ADHD as a easy back door way to be approved for services.

I do tend to sit by myself and watch others. This song about watching has resonated with me since it came out in 1986.

I take issue with her take on door slamming. I HATE door slammers.

After putting up with it for too long, I informed the neighbors below me that they slam their door incredibly hard, and I hear "BOOM!" "BOOM!" and it shakes my walls. Their excuse was that the door was difficult to click shut without pushing or pulling it hard. Nevertheless, after speaking to them, the situation improved quite a bit, but every so often, the woman, who's barely five feet, slams the F out of it.

Same issue with neighbor to my side in the back. She swears it's not her, but I told her after hearing "BOOM!" and my wall vibrating, I see HER going down the steps. She tried to palm it off on her physically disabled roommate, saying it was him falling onto the floor. I said no way, I know the sound of a door slamming. I've spoken to her twice now, and there's a little improvement.

Recently she had teen visitors, and I just happened to encounter one outside, and I asked him not to slam the door so hard, and to also tell this to his sister.

In the mornings I try to close my car doors as quietly as possible, even though a minimal amount of force is needed to shut it thorougly, but a car door being slammed shut is LOUD enough to wake people, so I try to be considerate when I'm opening various doors to get things from the backseat, front passenger seat, etc.

There's also no excuse for slamming cupboards. At another place I lived I kept hearing cupboards slamming on the other side of my kitchen wall. What was this dude doing for 45 F-ing minutes of banging his cupboards? WTF. I emailed him about this, and also told him there were other times I often hear banging cupboards. The situation improved after that.

Damn, is it so freaking hard to gently close a door? Especially in the morning? I've been wakened many times by slamming doors (I now wear tightly jammed-in earplugs overnight).

Every hotel I've ever been in, people bang their doors even in the middle of the night. WTF. I've been wakened very early in hotels by idiots slamming their doors. I know that hotel doors are heavy and will slam shut on their own, but it doesn't require superhuman abilities to guide the door gently closed with your freaking hand!! !

I practice what I preach: At hotels I always guide the door shut so it doesn't bang and rock the walls of other rooms or wake up people.

Common courtesy: DON'T F-ing Slam Doors!! ! This isn't rocket science. A five-year-old can be taught not to slam a door. A MONKEY can be trained to close a door gently. What is WRONG with people????