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Welcome to Oddball Central

GA

Hmmmmm? Hi! I am Ghosthunter, and HFA.
What are you? AS? ASD? PDD-NOS? HFA?
AND ........What makes you oddballish?

Hmmmmm? What do you do consciously
that is oddballish?
What do you do subconsciously that is oddballish?
HMMMMMMM?....

And Welcome to WrongPlanet!

Sincerely,
Ghosthunter

Welcome to Wrong Planet Mookie!!

Welcome!

Welcome!! I'm pretty new too Come join the crazy chat if you havent already =P hehe

GROAAAAR!

1 welcome groar. And 1 for freya

GROAAAAR!

A bigger boy stole my oddball.

Im an 18 year old female that has always just been different(my name is Kim by the way)..as was my father and he was the only person that understood me..when he passed away in august my whole world crumbled and I quickly found myself lost...I have been diagnosed with everything from Bipolar disorder to borderline personality disorder along with ADHD they don't know what they are talkin about at all..I found that when I take DXM (a cough suppresant with effects quite like speed) I can say what Im feeling...and better understand the way social situations work..but there were many bad things that came along with it..I have always had a problem with working because I can never establish relationships with my coworkers that make work a fun place to be...However, I recently started working with children which makes me very happy.....What made me come to the conclusion that I may have asperger's is that I love working with Autistic children because I for some reason completely understand them and have actually helped a few children who are autistic to become better adjusted social individuals...I was worked with my entire life to speak correctly...so language was always very important to me which unfortunately caused the people around me to think that absolutely nothing was wrong with me and in fact I was just lazy and was looking for an excuse to not accomplish the everyday tasks that "normal" people can accomplish..Im not making up my misunderstanding of socializations...I wish that I was...it would make my life a lot easier...Now not only am I trying to figure out how to live without my father around as a support system but I have lost many of the people around me and am struggling with a drug problem...The love of life!

First of all! Sorry your father died. How old was he?

Hmmmmm? Let's see 18+25=43 years old!

This is my guess.

And how did he die at such a young age?

I hope you don't mind me asking these 2 questions?
I am just trying to understand you!



That my friend! is call pharmacudical marketing$$$
I am glad your smart to see past being their
guinea pig.

Hmmmmm? Why such multiple dx's? Hmmmm?
What are you autistic characteristics?



Hmmmm? I am going to ask some questions here!

1)...How did you come across this DXM idea?
It sounds clever. Is it a prescription? non-prescr'?

2)...Are you on any other med's?

Sometimes things don't mix well!



I can relate to this. 99% of my jobs fell in this
category here. What kind of jobs were they?

For me it was food service, market research,
and some computer related jobs. Mostly
customer service, and that is where I am
overwhelmed most!



I will say HFA, if Speech delay is major!
I will say PDD-NOS if minimal speech delay!
I will say AS if no speech delay, but relatively
good communciation skills.

This is of course a generalization, and will bleed to
my next question.



Hmmmmm?.........

Hi! I am Ghosthunter, I am HFA. I had speech delay
from 3-5 due to hearing loss that was repaired. Speech
therapy for a small part of my life, and a life time of
communication interfacing with others. I say, unless
otherwise noted....HFA is closer, maybe a PDD-NOS.

AS is a completely different creature since they had
relatively normal as possible development in the key
years I lost, and perhaps you!



Hmmmmm? What kind of incompletions?
And no! I don't think your making this up!
As a matter of fact....Welcome to WrongPlanet!



Hmmmm? is this due to the DMX stuff you mentioned
earlier? If not, feel free to elaborate. I hope you
do well on Wrong Planet!

Sincerely,
Ghosthunter

It was a comforting revelation to me that my weirdness was a condition that had a name and not just me being a difficult, rebellious individual.

First of all! Sorry your father died. How old was he?

Hmmmmm? Let's see 18+25=43 years old!

This is my guess.
>>Thanks for ur condolences he died at 44...he had me at 26..
And how did he die at such a young age?
He had lou gehrig's disease..he was diagnosed on lou gehrgis 100th birthday and died a little over a year later....

I hope you don't mind me asking these 2 questions?
I am just trying to understand you!
>>Not a problem....Im glad that u care enough to ask questions!


That my friend! is call pharmacudical marketing$$$
I am glad your smart to see past being their
guinea pig.
>>I was always very smart..or at least I was told...

Hmmmmm? Why such multiple dx's? Hmmmm?
>>I for some reason had a terrible time getting along with my mother...mostly because she didn't understand me at all..especially after my stepdad moved in....but i could not find a good enough psycologist...and the one time I did find one that understood me..I was on DXM and was able to communicate exceptionally well and therefore when I mention asperger's or something on the autism spectrum I was scoffed at.

What are you autistic characteristics?
>> The fact that I may be on the spectrum was first introduced to me by this man tom who knew my father quite well....After my dad died I began talkin to him..he has worked with autistic children for many years now...and he told me that he thought that my dad was on the spectrum..I had always noticed that my father and I were just not like other people and we just saw things differently....I also noticed that my dad had great ideas on how to change the court syxstem and reat ways to prove that he had been mistreated but when he would try to plead his case it wouldnt make any sense to anyone but me. Because I went to to "toastmasters" in order to learn how to speak publically (the youngest memeber ever ) I could occasionally help him relay what he was trying to say to the judge...Also...I have a tendency to fall...ALL THE TIME..since I was little...and I fell twice recently messing up the same knee both times.....No one but tom had ever known my father and I well and he was the one who mentioned aspergers....


Hmmmm? I am going to ask some questions here!

1)...How did you come across this DXM idea?
It sounds clever. Is it a prescription? non-prescr'?
>>I came across DXM with some other friends..they introduced me to it as a different way to get high...I noticed that the effect it had on me was quite different from the other peoples...I soon realized that what I was seeing on DXM was the real world...and I could understand everything that was going on...it almost felt as though my brain had slowed down in order for me to understand everything.....HOWEVER!! ! I do not recommend this drug to anyone....it has had serious consequences on me..and after using it for quite some time leads to depression..and at very high doses a complete loss of reality...(I tried to do knee surgery on myself with a pocket knife) not a good drug to mess with...
2)...Are you on any other med's?
>>The clinic tried to put me on a mood stabilizer and strattera for my two newest dxs...but I stopped takin them.
Sometimes things don't mix well!
>>This i found out after taking 480 mg of DXM and a half a bottle of rum...hence...my first visit to the clinic where I was told I was a psychotic drug addict...


I can relate to this. 99% of my jobs fell in this
category here. What kind of jobs were they?
>>retail...but then again with my two most recent child care related jobs..
For me it was food service, market research,
and some computer related jobs. Mostly
customer service, and that is where I am
overwhelmed most!
>>same here

I will say HFA, if Speech delay is major!
I will say PDD-NOS if minimal speech delay!
I will say AS if no speech delay, but relatively
good communciation skills.
>> i have no idea what those abbreviations are...I have learned to respond to everything I am asked directly..but most of the time it's not the response I wanted to give..it was just a reaction because I don't want to keep them waiting for a response...
This is of course a generalization, and will bleed to
my next question.


Hmmmmm?.........

Hi! I am Ghosthunter, I am HFA. I had speech delay
from 3-5 due to hearing loss that was repaired. Speech
therapy for a small part of my life, and a life time of
communication interfacing with others. I say, unless
otherwise noted....HFA is closer, maybe a PDD-NOS.

AS is a completely different creature since they had
relatively normal as possible development in the key
years I lost, and perhaps you!
>>You lost me here....explain??


Hmmmmm? What kind of incompletions?
And no! I don't think your making this up!
As a matter of fact....Welcome to WrongPlanet!
>>I never finish anything I start...I have great ideas and I can never finish anything..no matter how dedicated I am to it....


Hmmmm? is this due to the DMX stuff you mentioned
earlier? If not, feel free to elaborate. I hope you
do well on Wrong Planet!
>>the drug stuff is due to the DXM use...Im trying to get used to living my life without being on it..
Sincerely,
Ghosthunter[/quote]

Hmmmmm?
AS is Aspergers(walking genius with good
academic obsessions and no delays
in normal childhood developments,
such as speech, Learning disabilities)

HFA is Higher Form of Autism(one who
usually had a delay in speech and sometimes
other losses to overcompensate for)

PDD- NOS is Pervasive Developmental
Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified.....
this is when one falls into a loss of
learning at the young of where most
aspies could excell in. BUT doesn't
fit into significant delays of HFA.
Thus therefore a combinatiion of
AS/HFA without a definite either, Or
involved!)

Hmmmm?
Does this help?

Sincerely,
Ghosthunter

Kimbo, I'm so sorry to read that you lost your father in such a tragic way and particularly because I know that Lou Gehrig's is a very cruel condition and that you miss him so much.

I'm curious as to what DXM is - is it Dexies? If so, it would be a type of amphetamine or "upper". I was put onto Mogadon at one stage to help with sleeping problems. One of the side effects of that was I could speak much better and be more assertive. The doctor said I could only have one prescription because it was addictive.

Some other people and myself with AS have been told we are lazy because we have quite good verbal skills so why can't we go up to someone and ask for help if we need it or beg for a job or whatever.

A major fear of rejection is one reason and another is that we are not sure how to put our requests in the best possible light so they will be accepted. I often make lots of hints but don't ask for things directly. If the hints aren't taken, it is annoying but at least I wasn't really rejected as I didn't ask straight out.

I'd love to work with children (probably autistic children especially) or animals but have had a job for a long time working with papers, filing and computers. I ran into lots of problems when they wanted us to answer phones and that is how I ended up getting the diagnosis of Aspergers.

Well, no, by definition PDD-NOS doesn't have learning delays...

And to further this other authors say there is,
others say there is not, but the common
factor is very unclear! I am going what is implied!
Perhaps your right! Perhaps I am right!
Perhaps the mixed views of the authors are
right?????

Hmmmmmm?
Ghosthunter