Aspies For Freedom

Have this small norwegian blog community that I've called "Norwegian AS/Autism bloggers" (just in norwegian), consisting of two blogging in norwegian (including me at A-spies HQ Norway) and one norwegian blogging in english.

I just came across a norwegian blog by someone who blogs about his experiences with ADHD and I have now begun thinking about the pros and cons about this possible expanding of the community by 33%.

I see that in his most recent post, which was apparently from the 22th of May (he has apparently been alot more active in the three previous years) he talks of sensory overload and mentions that it is common among autistics.

I've seen that on the norwegian forum there's alot of confusion about the difference between AS and ADHD, I'm not sure if the line is more exact in the English speaking world as I don't know much about ADHD at all.

Many of those only diagnosed with ADHD on the norwegian forum tell they feel alot in common with people on the spectrum. One also tells she experienced being misdiagnosed and put on inappropriate medication for ADHD and later found she fit the criteria for Asperger's better - but I'm not sure what really is the case with most of these with ADHD diagnoses.

Rambling

The idea of the blog community was really to have a base for a norwegian autistic community, as it is mostly just parents who are organized nowadays, so it is first of all meant for adults and youth on the spectrum. There are some blogging parents, but they seem to be quite biomed indoctrinated, have as far as I've seen not been updated for half a year, and apparently doesn't have RSS either - so I'm not really considering including those. ;p

Think I might have to change the name from "Norwegian AS/Autism bloggers" if I want it to be more like a community than a battleground between biomed and neurodiversity. A name for a possible organization in norwegian for people on the spectrum, including all of those able to somehow participate, was "Autistic Network", so I guess something like "Autistic Network's Blogring" could be a name.

Well, I think we allready experience that the "line" between the autistic spectrum and the neurotypical spectrum is actually a "field".
We can now try to draw a line on either side of this field or in the middle of it, wich will lead to even more snags.
clear, that my post doesn't answer any question, it's only one more question.

Come one, come all . . .
forget what the doctors say who know themself more than themself.

I stopped believing the doctors some years ago.
But I don't know if I got the meaning of your post right, or if I got it at all.

Sorry, last post was short and inexcusably unclear/all kinds of typos...
I'll start over.

If Ivar T is asking about opening up his norwegian group to others that aren't Dx'd (either properly or improperly by Doctors) as Aspies - but are NVLD or ADHD.... Your call of course Ivar
I say why not be open to all - come one, come all...
A doctor doesn't know anyone better than they know themself.  If more people feel like they relate to aspies or to a cause - the more the merrier.  
I am sure you'll come up with a good name...

Guess I might ask the blogger if he wants to be included in the blogring, before that even I would aslo have to check with the others of the blogring, which I haven't.

Just think that in the early stage of this community it could be more easy to include more kinds of dxes, but I've abit of fear that community could get "hijacked" with things that would not be of interest of those only related to the autism dx.

Idea springs to mind, why not multiple blogrings, one autism specific, and one more inclusive.

I'm away in the weekend, so I'll soon be going.

The "blogring" is actually quite simple - It is really just a Yahoo Pipe combining all the RSS feeds for the blogs, which makes it possible to distribute a list of new blog posts with a widget from widgetbox.com, such this one:

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/norske-a...e-bloggere

The pipe (which you can see if you click the title of the widget) also let people get mail for new items in the pipe, only problem is that I haven't figured a way of writing who has written what in the pipe.

Have a nice weekend Ivar, and good luck with your project.

Thanks!

I have a close friend who is ADD, he was quite interested when I started pursuing the idea that I was autistic, we discovered he has a lot of traits.  ASD and ADD seem to be related some how.  I told him he was probably a "cousin", a person with a lot of traits and/or related condition to the spectrum.  He takes a lot more pride in his identity as a person with ADD now than he did before.

I've noticed that all my ADD/ADHD friends have some sensory problems and very intense interests, like in AS, but not enough traits to be AS.

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