I believe that we don't need just to focus around Autism, but have something set for people with all kinds of different nervous disorders. Like the most commonly misunderstood such as Tourettes, ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Schizophrenia. It can't tolerate people making fun of these.
LMAO! I could have all of those! LOL LOL LOL, man am I messed uo. sorry, it made me lose myself for a second.
Well, I have dyslexia (thanks alot grandma), adhd (not official but everyone knows this, im over-focused and impulisive type), my doctor keeps saying it's tourettes, but it's not, it's myoclonic epilepsy. And i have schizo-type thoughts, well i scored "very likely" to have a schizotypal personality. And I have depression on top of that. IM SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON ARNT I? jesus, i mean this kinda stinks, oh yeah, i also got a bunch of people on chat calling me emo, score one for self-esteem (lathered in sarcasm).
I'm diagnosed with Asperger's and Tourettes. Dyslexia? That must suck.
yes it does, especially when you're gifted too, so they two things cancel eachother out and you cant get help or get into higher level classes, it's very frusterating.
As in i should be in 12th grade math, i understand how to do it, i just cant do the math, i need a calculator for simple addition, subtraction, multipication, and division. All the numbers get f'ed up. I cant spell either, but as soon as i make a spelling error i reconise it right away.
Having adhd doesnt help my cause either, well i dont have asperger's though.
I believe anxiety (and to a lesser extent depression) goes hand-in-hand with autism. What in your life is there not to be anxious about? Doctors will say they aren't corelative, I think this is a cop out and just an excuse to prescribe pills.
Oh I have dyslexia too. I was diagnosed about 12years ago at 24. I know I'm old. (LOL) I still managed to do OK at uni. I did hopelessly at school. I basically had to teach myself how to read and write properly after I left school - going to night classes at TAFE (college)
i havent been tested for either, but it's not that hard to figure it out on my own. I wish to be tested so maybe i could have all multiple choice tests.
Maths was my least favourite subject (apart from physical education) from about 3rd grade onwards). I was fine with the numbers (so wouldn't have dyscalculia) but wasn't so good with using symbols.
It got to a stage in senior where I was spending most of the lesson looking out the window or doodling in my book and the teacher didn't even care and didn't explain so clearly. I think there was a small gap between understanding the material and not understanding but I didn't get over that gap most of the time.
After I wrote my last post, I looked it up and i actually seem alot more dyscalculic than dyslexic.
I have AS and Tourette's. My teenage daughter doesn't have AS but she has dycalculia and dysgraphia, both of which contribute to people thinking she's "stupid."
I have Aspergers (I guess that's kind of a given on here), Neocortical Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, some CAPD symptoms, ADD with regards to reading comprehension (not really as much in other areas), horrible horrible multitasking skills, and two tics (and eye thing and a glasses thing).
CAPD = central auditory processing disorder
What sort of symptoms does that have?
Central auditory processing disability. But I'm not sure if it is the same as sensory over-sensitivity or if it is a mixture of over and under sensitivity. Perhaps another contributor could enlighten us further?
I was thinking that this thread should be moved to "Support" as it is more relevant there. Perhaps it would even be suitable to put it in "Diagnosis".