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Stray-Ana
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16 Feb 2009, 8:42 am

Padium wrote:

I'm not gay, you could call me straight, I am not asexual. I will not touch another guy simply because I want to have children of my own that are not adopted. I don't mind the idea of adopting some, as long as I have at least 1 of my own flesh and blood.

?? but just because you want a child that is of your own blood that doesn't alter sexual orientation or why you should refrain from being with the same sex at some point. If you wont 'touch a guy' there must be more to it than that? Either that your not interested or that you have just made that a rule for yourself.

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16 Feb 2009, 10:17 am

Callista wrote:

Well dangit, where are all the gay people? Cm'on, I know you guys exist...

Me for example - Gay, on the "kinky" side, Asperger, but no ADHD. Just a leather guy how is famous for well planed sessions.

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16 Feb 2009, 10:23 am

Padium wrote:

I'm not gay, you could call me straight, I am not asexual. I will not touch another guy simply because I want to have children of my own that are not adopted.

How the one thing can exclude the other thing? Julius Caesar, Gaius (Caligula), James I/VI, Philippe of Orleans, the younger brother of Louis XIV, Edward II of England, Thomas Mann, and other "touched" men, but also had children.

I do not know any process which may exclude the one from the other.

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16 Feb 2009, 12:19 pm

Stray-Ana wrote:

Padium wrote:

I don't want to get into it to deeply, but there is a way for this to actually work.

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16 Feb 2009, 1:03 pm

I'm not adhd, but I'm gay and AS

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16 Feb 2009, 1:25 pm

I'm ADHD, OCD, Aspie and love women, but also tried cock once.

Now even though I'm open to Women only. I have to face the facts that I'm a bit on the Bi side.

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18 Feb 2009, 9:33 pm

I am all three too. I think asperger and gay has highly helped me to find my artistic expression whereas ADHD has put the brakes on further artistic production. I am very impatient and a painting has to be finished fast...

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18 Feb 2009, 10:28 pm

Loborojo wrote:

I am all three three, or also

Although my doc says I am quiet gay, or I mean ADHD, just mostly.

I just about have all three. Although you would never know it, you would just think I am kinda weird and funny.

I find people are more against me for being AS than GAY.

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18 Feb 2009, 10:45 pm

I'm not fond of the dual diagnosis of ADHD and ASD. Isn't it just a mite bit redundant? Considering the two are so close in many respects anyway, wouldn't it just technically be ASD?

I could easily say I'm ADHD with mild ASD, but I fit classic ADHD, which also encompasses mild ASD symptoms. I'm diagnosed ADHD after being through test from the age of 2 onward, including extensive tests for what was then simply PDDNOS.

I'm heterosexual and female, though I've done my fair share of messing around with the girls.

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19 Feb 2009, 5:08 am

I'm a lesbian, am 99% certain that I either have Asperger's. PDD-NOS, or some other form of HFA, but don't have ADHD. But I do have bipolar 1 disorder. I hope to get tested for Asperger's, etc. soon, so I can get an actual diagnosis.

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19 Feb 2009, 2:58 pm

I'm gay and I have AS.

I don't have ADHD and anyway, aren't PDD diagnoses "officially" supposed to supersede ADHD?

"The symptoms do not occur exclusively during the course of a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizophrenia, or other Psychotic Disorder and are not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., Mood Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Disorders, or a Personality Disorder)."

How can a person with a PDD have ADHD that doesn't only occur during their PDD, since a PDD is a life-long thing that is happening all the time? And yet lots of people seem to be diagnosed with both.

I do know someone with a dual AS and ADHD diagnosis and he does act very differently than me, he acts ... well like he has ADHD, he has a lot more energy for example.

Apparently the bit about PDDs that I quoted above may go away in DSM-V making all these dual diagnoses officially "legitimate."

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19 Feb 2009, 5:06 pm

dougn wrote:

you think the percentage of gay persons is higher with asperger?

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19 Feb 2009, 8:57 pm

Loborojo wrote:

you think the percentage of gay persons is higher with asperger?

I doubt it. There doesn't seem to be any evidence for that.

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06 Mar 2011, 2:18 am

Bi guy here, diagnosed ADD (no H) at 5, informal diagnosis of AS or some PDD at 26. You be the judge. (I frequently question the ADD)

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06 Mar 2011, 10:44 pm

I'm a gay aspie. The AS I've known about since I was 9. The gay part I realized/accepted only a few weeks ago. I'm not diagnosed with ADHD. Although I do have trouble competing work sometimes and have difficulty filtering out background noise, generally I am extremely focused. In fact, I suspect I have mild OCD.

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07 Mar 2011, 12:42 pm

I'm gay and aspie. The former I have known since was 12, the latter only since my mid-30's. I do not have an ADD/ADHD diagnosis, although my attention span is notoriously sho.... ooh, shiny!

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