Know anyone with other Conditions?

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Thought I'd ask anyone who may have friends with other conditions, since I am pretty lucky to have grown up in schools where people had other, more serious conditions.

I have met people (and friends) who have:

ADHD
Dyspraxia
Dyslexia
Fragile X
Growth problems
Speech problems
Can't walk
Disfigured

You name it, I've seen it...and I want to know if you guys are friend's with people who don't have AS and how you cope with these guys.

I'll start things off...

I have two friends with speech problems (I went to a school where it was pretty much a common thing), and from growing up with them I can understand what they say...however, I met up with one recently (about 2005) after 6 years and to this day I seem to not exactly understand what they are saying 100%, I feel guilty as she's one of my best friend's but I seemed to have lost that ability being forced out to go to a mainstream school (where I got worse imho). My other friend I can understand simply because he says things much slower and he's pretty much accepted by everyone.

The personalities are just as interesting and I am glad to have made friends with people with different conditions although I have never really met another guy or girl with AS from school (I recently found out a girl from Primary had Autism but she used to be a troublemaker...although she's very quiet now).

Wow, your social circle sounds very diverse

My best friend has suspected ADHD and dyspraxia and has Dyslexia diagnosed.
I know someone with ADD and someone with a personality disorder.
One of my friends has High-functioning autism, and has a few problems in school, his being mainstream.
My cousin and brother have Aspergers, and I'm currently waiting for a referral to be assessed for it as well.

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i have one cousin who had a speech problem, another cousin is ADHD and another cousin has fragile x.
that's about it.

I know this probably sounds crazy but my psychiatrist and other doctors say it's not that rare, I have paranoid schizophrenia, multi-personality dis., bipolar dis., and i am a manic depressive. The doctors think it was because I was born with meconium in the amniotic fluid when I was born. According to the doctors it was in there quite a while with me. It affected my lungs and my chemical balances in my brain. The major problems I use to have was depicting what was real, &even still I have problems with that. I find myself paranoid all the time, and a lot of my fears play with my head. I've grown to ignore people jumping in front of cars, which use to be very scary for me and I've made my mom pull over and check the street for me multiple times just to comfort me. It was easier when I was very young I had an imaginary friend who use to tell me stories of how his house burnt down. I've had a very strange life because of it and a lot of people judge me when I tell them about it. I'm new to this website &I figure it will help get out a lot of the things I keep inside. My multi-person. dis. is weird, from what my mother tells me I have me myself which I am very sweet and I joke around a lot, but then I have a really horrible side to me. My family refers to me as doctor jekel and mr. hide. Not an appealing nickname./: When my mom starting noticing that something was wrong I would have seizures and wake up with no memory and just be crying hysterical. It's been a battle for all of us, but I'm more stable now that I understand what's going on and my mom &my brothers know what to do when I show signs of either a seizure or just seeing things or hearing things that aren't there. It's been hard to have friends, and keep friends. It's been hard to have relationships, but I finally found a guy that doesn't care if I have problems. Although it's hard for him when I talk about my past suicidal tendencies. There's other things that have been really challenging but It would take forever to describe and type. My boyfriend has ADHD, but it's not that bad as he gets older. It's just hard to keep up with him, or tell him stories and talk to him sometimes. He has anger issues and I'm getting use to calming him down, it's getting easier. His sister also has problems although his mom doesn't share that with anyone, but she's getting better as well as she gets older. My boyfriend and I joke about what our kids would turn out to be but it honestly does scare me. I don't know how my mom got through all the problems with me but I admire her for it. I want to be a therapist when I get older, I think it would be awesome. I would also love to go to schools around the country to talk to other kids with problems. Only because I'm not the only one with problems in my family, it's genetic. I want to reach out to kids who might be going through problems. I think it would be very fun.[:

Turns out that about half of my friends at university have some kind of disability/condition and we ended up friends just through our degree not through anything to do with that.
Found out one of my friends had dysgraphia on a recent fieldtrip - doing geological mapping, which was a bit of nightmare for me as its very visual-spatial which is one of my major problems and I was finding it difficult and getting annoyed with myself and felt I had to explain to him that I wasnt just stupid. And his response was "I completely understand" and he told me he had dysgraphia, although university won't test him for it, but it was so good having someone genuinley understand where I was coming from .

I can't even count how many people with ADHD/ADD that I have known. I have known more people with ADHD that people with AS. Also, many people have mental disorders, that you don't know about, because they don't tell anyone, or maybe they aren't diagnosed. I have also known quite a few people with Down's Syndrome. I know people with many other conditions to but it would take a long time to list them all.

several friends who are dislexic

one with tourettes, adhd, OCD

known someone who is bipolar

known a lot of people with adhd.

I have ADHD, dysgraphia, high-level language disorder, bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, graves disease (I am about to have my thyroid cut out :\) and fibromyalgia. I might have autism.

My brother has autism, temporal love epilepsy, dyspraxia, and a mystery condition where not all of his brain is properly myelinated.

My best friend has borderline personality disorder.

My boyfriend has ADHD and TNT (Totally Neurotypical Disorder -- I know that he's not because of the ADHD but I wanted to introduce that amusing acronymn anyway).

I have lots of friends with autism, anxiety, depression, bipolar, ADHD, schizophrenia and personality disorders.

Pretty much all of my family has ADHD and austistic traits, though my youngest brother's and mine are more severe.

Yes.

I have TS and OCD, and have friends who have ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, TS, AS, partridge, pear tree, etc.

It's funny you started this thread because some years ago a bunch of us were hanging out, and we realized everyone there had letters they could stick after their name. (And no, none of us could stick "MD" or "PhD". See the list above.) Someone asked if that was coincidence or if there was a pattern emerging.

To this day I'm convinced there's a pattern. I swear we were drawn to each other, and that we became such good friends for a reason. I'm convinced that some part of it was because we had a better idea of what we each needed or wanted. (Hint: when I'm ticcing up a storm, I do NOT need a hug or a pat on the head.) But part of it, I think, is that the quirks in our personalities just came together like a puzzle and WORKED. I can't speak for anyone else, but part of it for me was that I knew they would take me as I was, for what I was. No hidden agendas, no unreasonable expectations. I got to be me, they got to be them, and we all dealt just fine.

Less than a year after that conversation, I moved. I've visited since, but I miss them.

My buddy Gordon ----> ADHD
Several friends and acquaintances who are Aspies
My mother ----> Multiple Sclerosis
My mother's childhood neighbour - Tourette's syndrome
My friend David ----> OCD
My Friend Coady ----> Agoraphobia
Myself ----> Brain Injury, expressed traits of aspergers and Obsessive compulsive tendencies
My father(rest his soul) ----> addiction

I knew a guy who had Tourette Syndrome, three girls who had Down Syndrome, another guy who had ADHD and ODD. I was friends with all these people. It was easy to be around them because I felt different myself.