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Azazel
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I would agree that mental illness diagnoses can be bullshit....
Aspergers/Autism aren't mental illnesses. They're neurological conditions. Like down syndrome or fragile X or global development disorder or whatever. Like being actually properly Intellectually Disabled (aka mentally retarded). They can't be "cured", they can't be "fixed" but people with these conditions can learn/be trained to adapt and live more fulfilling/productive lives etc, depending on their individual cases. Medication may or may not be involved in the management of behaviours. This is different from some other neuroses, it's especially different from fat nerds on the internet with no social skills deciding that they have Aspbergers (often really meaning High Functioning Autism with or without Aspergers) as an excuse for their lack of social skills. Oh yeah, it's not ADD anymore. Hasn't been for years. It's now ADHD. I never said I'd slice the throat of someone who didn't excuse me. I said I'd slice the throat of someone who laughed in my face about my problems and disrespected me in a fashion that I could violently react and show them the error of their ways.
You know there's people out there that won't respect you until you prove you're "stronger", usually through fear of reprisal. Alpha Male syndrome or whatever. The internet removes that fear; hence, disrespect is abundant, because, what are you going to do, choke me through my monitor?
This, like pretty much all cases of "big man on the internet" is just fucking retarded. Shut the fuck up with your "I'll punch your head" bullshit. If you spouted that horseshit to me in real life, I'd choke a bitch. See how that works oh so well in endearing yourself to others, even in a "friendly" situation?
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gryeyes
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Fuck in fuck, stop. You were hated on before this?!
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Endie
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Anyone trolls me I'm going to find their house and gut them like a trout.
Edit: I got 28. I think that's very slightly better than when I took this a few years ago. I am becoming socialised.
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« Last Edit: January 13, 2010, 03:26:51 AM by Endie »
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My blog: http://endie.netTwitter - Endieposts "What else would one expect of Scottish sociopaths sipping their single malt Glenlivit [sic]?" Jack Thompson
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stray
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Oh yeah, it's not ADD anymore. Hasn't been for years. It's now ADHD. Ah yes.. Well I kind of suspected it already. Sort of. Nothing severe, I'm sure. Since I mentioned Myers Briggs somewhere earlier.. and just to tie it in with this, I'm pretty sure all EFNP's like myself can be mistaken for ADHD. One quick googling, and I find that other EFNP's think the same. Perhaps ADHD is something to do with personality type. Which begs another question.. perhaps the Asperger's stuff may be associated with personality type too. I googled various AQ results around the net, and there's so many people with scores 32 and higher. I'm finding it hard to believe there's that many near-Autistics (for lack of a better term) out there. It's easier to believe they're all INTP's or something - who are known to be the less social, kind of ultra-rational temperament.
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Ironwood
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Oh yeah, it's not ADD anymore. Hasn't been for years. It's now ADHD. .... Too easy.
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Signe
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There seems to be an awful lot of people on F13 who are so intimate with mental disorders that they call them by their nicknames! I wonder why that is? It's a little bit worrying, no?
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LK
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This, like pretty much all cases of "big man on the internet" is just fucking retarded. Shut the fuck up with your "I'll punch your head" bullshit. If you spouted that horseshit to me in real life, I'd choke a bitch. See how that works oh so well in endearing yourself to others, even in a "friendly" situation? Perhaps the most revealing thing I've gotten out of this thread so far.
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Ingmar
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Digression/question for people who work with this sort of thing: is there a reason those sorts of psychological tests never have a completely neutral answer? I always find myself having to slightly agree or slightly disagree with things that don't seem right to me either way.
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Nebu
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Digression/question for people who work with this sort of thing: is there a reason those sorts of psychological tests never have a completely neutral answer? I always find myself having to slightly agree or slightly disagree with things that don't seem right to me either way.
Those sorts of tests are largely worthless unless the questions are answered by an objective third party after extensive observation. Knowing what little I do of the condition, I'm certain that I could select answers that would produced my desired outcome.
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Tarami
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Since the questions are oh-so-subtle like "do you like being in large groups of people" and "do you like repeating the same tasks ad nauseum", I'm pretty sure even severe cases either way can, too.
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Lantyssa
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What's interesting about the test is that answering with "slightly" for a majority of them can still return a result of 35. Anyone trolls me I'm going to find their house and gut them like a trout.
Edit: I got 28. I think that's very slightly better than when I took this a few years ago. I am becoming socialised.
Work harder, n00b! What liquor should I have on hand for when you show up? Maybe we can try socializing and avoiding that whole gutting bit. Or I can look at you quizzically while trying to figure out why you are displaying such a pronounced emotional response to a bit of light jest.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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CmdrSlack
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So, I got a 12.
I guess that's good.
Or something.
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Endie
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What's interesting about the test is that answering with "slightly" for a majority of them can still return a result of 35. Anyone trolls me I'm going to find their house and gut them like a trout.
Edit: I got 28. I think that's very slightly better than when I took this a few years ago. I am becoming socialised.
Work harder, n00b! What liquor should I have on hand for when you show up? Maybe we can try socializing and avoiding that whole gutting bit. Or I can look at you quizzically while trying to figure out why you are displaying such a pronounced emotional response to a bit of light jest. Um, you do get that it was parody?
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My blog: http://endie.netTwitter - Endieposts "What else would one expect of Scottish sociopaths sipping their single malt Glenlivit [sic]?" Jack Thompson
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stray
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So, I got a 12.
I guess that's good.
Or something.
Nope, we're freaks too.
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trias_e
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To Lorekeep. If you feel like changing your state of being.
If you want to see why people might have the urge to talk to women (and even anyone really) stop jerking off/looking at porn for two weeks. I dare you. Also, if you're of the sort who doesn't find it immoral, see a hooker or two*. Check reviews online first and be careful. Remember, Benjamin Franklin fucked hookers. It's ok.
Get a dog. Care for dog.
Pay me the years worth of shrink bills.
*However, don't tell your hooker about how shitty your life because at that point you will be living the song Basket Case by Green Day. But better that than Longview.
Got 29 on spergers test. I think the most aspergery thing about me is that I simply cannot notice small details about people. Haircuts, new glasses, whatever. Also, everything around me just sort of merges into background and simply never enters my consciousness once I've spent a little while in an area. Which can result in me leaving all sorts of embarrassing things about the house without realizing it. And I'm a messy mofo.
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stray
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When I picture people who would score high on that test, I see Emily Deschanel as Bones. Not anything so bad. [edit] Hah.. Seems that was the intention. link"Hart Hanson, the creator of the show, and I discuss, you know, that my character almost has Asperger syndrome, and, you know, if maybe if it was a film, that I maybe specifically would have Asperger's," she said.
"If you look at the character of Zack, [a Brennan subordinate who's] played by Eric Millegan, he almost definitely has Asperger syndrome," she added.
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Lantyssa
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Um, you do get that it was parody?
I'm displaying symptoms of Asperger's and was unable to tell. (That's a joke, yo. It did take me a minute to catch it though. )
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Azazel
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There seems to be an awful lot of people on F13 who are so intimate with mental disorders that they call them by their nicknames! I wonder why that is? It's a little bit worrying, no?
I work there.
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Endie
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There seems to be an awful lot of people on F13 who are so intimate with mental disorders that they call them by their nicknames! I wonder why that is? It's a little bit worrying, no?
Aunt's a psychologist, uncle's a psychiatrist, studied Lacan etc. Basically immersed in the stuff since I was old enough to ask "Julian, was Hitler mentally ill?" My family will be first into the re-education camps when the Scientologists take over.
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My blog: http://endie.netTwitter - Endieposts "What else would one expect of Scottish sociopaths sipping their single malt Glenlivit [sic]?" Jack Thompson
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Engels
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Aunt's a psychologis, uncle is a psychologist, I have a masters in psychology.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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Signe
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Oh, Psychology - one of those useful subjects, like Liberal Arts.
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schild
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Oh, Psychology - one of those useful subjects, like Liberal Arts.
Liberal Arts isn't a subject, be specific.
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Signe
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That's true, but a degree in it is just as useful, no?
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schild
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That's true, but a degree in it is just as useful, no?
Any degree is useful, getting a specialized degree is just a means of getting into grad school or for stroking your ego.
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Triforcer
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That's true, but a degree in it is just as useful, no?
Any degree is useful, getting a specialized degree is just a means of getting into grad school or for stroking your ego. Wow, that should take us off ontoanother tangent of faux umbrage and limitless retardation. Can we get Tom Bombadil not being in LOTR into this topic somehow too?
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Mrbloodworth
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That's true, but a degree in it is just as useful, no?
Any degree is useful, getting a specialized degree is just a means of getting into grad school or for stroking your ego. Wow, that should take us off ontoanother tangent of faux umbrage and limitless retardation. Can we get Tom Bombadil not being in LOTR into this topic somehow too? Tom Bombadil had no degree, thus was ineligible for the movie position. Stay in school kids!
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Samwise
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That's true, but a degree in it is just as useful, no?
Any degree is useful, getting a specialized degree is just a means of getting into grad school or for stroking your ego.
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Signe
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How is stroking your ego useful?
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Mrbloodworth
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How is stroking your ego useful?
Reference your avatar.
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Signe
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That doesn't make any sense. She's not stroking her ego, she's grabbing her titties.
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LK
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I don't need other people, I have Signe's avatar.
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Yeah, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Signe for her avatar.
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Signe
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You're welcome, just as long as you know that they're neither my hands nor my titties and even if they were, grabbing them wouldn't do anything for my ego.
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LK
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One can dream.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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grabbing them wouldn't do anything for my ego.
Lego my ego.
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