Chit Chat
Got my full assessment in 2 weeks time, had my first assessment yesterday
Anyone else here got Aspergers?
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This is what happens when you talk of escaping !
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I'd go for "High functioning Autism"..sounds better, more Kudos.
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'High Functioning Alcoholic' sounds even more fun
 I get called that as well as the alternative when I can blast through a sudoku at 4am on my second bottle of brandy  |
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I got close to it but someone moved my Big Mac before I sat down
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thought people with aspergers didnt get sarcasm?
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can it stop you drinking beer?
i got diagnosed with fructose intolerance and they add that sh1t to most beers and dont even advertise it!!!! |
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Been hacking into any US defence mainframe computers lately?
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I got asked about 200 questions yesterday, loved every minute of it, just wish it was a questionnaire that I could fill in
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Schalke - I'm seeing my doctor about this very matter tomorrow (not, I hasten to add, the matter of you being Aspergers, but in regard of myself)
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lol
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I know someone with it,its not something to take lightly good luck and I hope its negative
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I very much doubt it will be negative, I have a lot of things that basically ruin my life and Ive never known why, maybe I can get help to understand things easier ...
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arse burgers in the UK shirley...
There's been a lot evidence that (some?) people diagnosed with Asperger's perform better at specific tasks (i.e. better than 99.9% of the population), which seems a decent trade off for having idiosyncrasies a little leftfield of everyone else. I know it's true for the computer science / maths fields. It just seems to be the 'price to pay' for having some extraordinary talents, that it gets taken from somewhere else. |
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ty tips but a positive result is good - would explain a lot of things. I'm not completely fruitbat - only very mild. It's positively advantageous for certain activities..
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..just as erse2 says ^^^
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Does possibly having Aspergers explain my betting patterns?
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ha ha, no, I wouldn't say so (but I'm not an expert yet)
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I bet football a lot but I never watch it, find it very boring - I watch markets ,looking for patterns, esp anomalous ones
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yes - I prefe watching numbers to watching people
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'prefer'
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thats a good approach - as many different aspects as possible should be factored in.
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I was diagnosed with it to a mild/moderate level last year.
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Mate's daughter has it,hope you are ok..........
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I think a lot of men are on the autistic spectrum, just not far enough to get a diagnosis, we are genarally not naturally good at small talk, new situations and have a tendancy to concentrate on some things to the exclusion of others.
Good luck Schalke, I hope the diagnosis helps you make sense of some things. BTW didnt we have a poster, Irchester who had an Aspergers diagnosis - I recall the forum being admirably supportive of him. |
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Am I correct that Asperger's sufferers only see the world in terms of black and white, there are no grey areas.
One of my daughters dated a bloke whose son had it. Young Tommy told everybody he was 11, but his dad said he was 10. I never understood that one. The first question he asked everybody he met was 'When's your birthday?' and he never forgot any of them. My daughter couldn't handle him though, and they split up. This was after they had been over the woods and they got wet and muddy. He applied the logic that the dog was dirty, and the washing machine gets things clean. The dog was too friendly and went along with it. Tommy was about to switch on the machine when she walked into the kitchen and caught him, as it was 'too quiet' for her liking.  His dad was a nice enough bloke though, an IT expert. |
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That would not be a good description cmat, if I understand correctly it's a greater ability to see more details in a given subject/situation which can seem a bit like fixation, it tends to revolve around pattern matching.
Usually these enhanced abilities come at the price of being less rounded in another department, like socialising or maintaining relationships. It's definitely not a black and white condition and more like a spectrum of traits and severity IMO. That's not to say that anyone with Asperger's is a particular way, they just fall outside of the parameters of our what's considered to be 'normal', as in, the way the brain is typically meant to work. |
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There was a programme on not too long ago on IPlayer about a teenager that could recite Pi to tens of thousands of places, I think he holds the world record for it. He can calculate sums pretty much the same way as depicted in Rain Man... but he doesn't display any of the anti-social traits usually associated. It was considered a bit of a boon because it's a rare occasion when a scientist/psychologist could actually ask the person how they're doing these 'magic' feats.
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crisp
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Straight to the top of the council's housing waiting list if you have your child diagnosed with it. Effectively worth a few hundred K that to a lot of people.
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Get's you a council property almost straight away. In London, the waiting list could be 20 years otherwise.
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By which time your kids will be grown up so you won't get one anyway
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really? surprised
be better to not have condition tho |
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