Do you know if any good web site to point me to that can help me figure out if I have this or not? and that give me more information about the disorder.
"jamie dolan" <jamie@ashwoodinc.com> wrote in message news:hgKEd.13691$by5.12535@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...>I think this means I have asburgers, what do you think....> It's Asperger's not asburgers.
Is that part of this disorder or part of an additional disorder I have?
-- -Jamie "Gareeth" <Gareethnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:34hdn0F48tgmhU1@individual.net...>
"jamie dolan" <jamie@ashwoodinc.com> wrote in message > news:hgKEd.13691$by5.12535@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...>>I think this means I have asburgers, what do you think....>>
"jamie dolan" <jamie@ashwoodinc.com> wrote in message news:MsLEd.13705$by5.9286@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...> Sorry.>
I have always had spelling problems.>
Is that part of this disorder or part of an additional disorder I have?
Probably additional or you could just be a rotten speller. I didn't want to make a big deal of it but you wouldn't get far doing searches for info with it spelled wrong.
The spell checker that is build into google has saved my life. My spelling is so bad that I use an entirelly differnt vocuabulary on paper / typed than I do verbally.
Meaning my vocabulary when I am speaking sounds like I am at a collage level or above.
When I am typeing, I sound like I am in 5th grade.
Even with a spell checker I can not figure out how to spell a lot of words.
it Sucks!!
-- -Jamie "Gareeth" <Gareethnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:34heicF48q15kU1@individual.net...>
"jamie dolan" <jamie@ashwoodinc.com> wrote in message > news:MsLEd.13705$by5.9286@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...>> Sorry.>>
I have always had spelling problems.>>
Is that part of this disorder or part of an additional disorder I have?>
Probably additional or you could just be a rotten speller. I didn't want > to make a big deal of it but you wouldn't get far doing searches for info > with it spelled wrong.>
Janna Hoskin 11 January 2005 11:48:26 [ permanent link ]
jamie dolan wrote:> Sorry.>
I have always had spelling problems.>
Is that part of this disorder or part of an additional disorder I have?>
>
Probably an additional disorder, if you can call it that.
You mentioned that you have dysgraphia. I'm sure someone else will know more than I about it, but possibly dysgraphia has had an impact on your spelling ability.
And, some people are just really bad spellers, regardless. No disorder or anything like that, they just can't spell.
-Janna -- Autistic Spectrum Code v.1.0AC> d- s+: a- c+ p+ t f S+ !p e++>+++ h+>++ r->++ n+ i P+>++ m->++ M++>+++
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the words just dont spell the way they sound to me.
I think it sound one way, and i type it the way it sounds, but then it is spelled completly wrong....
People make fun of my all the time for it.
Espeicall with work e-mails. But even with the spell checker, I often have trouble figuring out how to get the word spelled correctly.
sucks..
-- -Jamie "Janna Hoskin" <treatautism@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:34helhF4b2l39U2@individual.net...> jamie dolan wrote:>> Sorry.>>
I have always had spelling problems.>>
Is that part of this disorder or part of an additional disorder I have?>>
>>
Probably an additional disorder, if you can call it that.>
You mentioned that you have dysgraphia. I'm sure someone else will know > more than I about it, but possibly dysgraphia has had an impact on your > spelling ability.>
And, some people are just really bad spellers, regardless. No disorder or > anything like that, they just can't spell.>
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Jeremy Reece 11 January 2005 12:26:46 [ permanent link ]
jamie dolan wrote:> I think that I have aspburgers.>
Do you know if any good web site to point me to that can help me figure out > if I have this or not? and that give me more information about the disorder.
-- -Jamie "DRosent288" <drosent288@aol.com> wrote in message news:20050111031339.09758.00000035@mb-m18.aol.com...> My score was 131--a near-average Aspie.> alamosaurus@aol.com
Do you have to know how to spell to work at mcdonalds?
Maybe just enough to fill out the application????
-- -Jamie "Jeremy Reece" <jreece_usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:34hgu6F44rhctU1@individual.net...> jamie dolan wrote:>> I think that I have aspburgers.>>
Do you know if any good web site to point me to that can help me figure >> out if I have this or not? and that give me more information about the >> disorder.>
Shena Delian O'Brien 11 January 2005 15:03:08 [ permanent link ]
Janna Hoskin wrote:>
You mentioned that you have dysgraphia. I'm sure someone else will know > more than I about it, but possibly dysgraphia has had an impact on your > spelling ability.
Dysgraphia has nothing to do with spelling. My husband has dysgraphia and he is a great speller.
"DRosent288" <drosent288@aol.com> wrote in message news:20050111031339.09758.00000035@mb-m18.aol.com...> My score was 131--a near-average Aspie.> alamosaurus@aol.com
"Janna Hoskin" <treatautism@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:34helhF4b2l39U2@individual.net...> You mentioned that you have dysgraphia. I'm sure someone else will know > more than I about it, but possibly dysgraphia has had an impact on your > spelling ability.> Spelling problems are not part of dysgraphia.
"ares" <ares@verizon.net> wrote in message news:5hSEd.15386$lG.11374@trnddc03...> I guess that wasn't related to the thought I had about snake burgers when
saw the thread, eh?> ares>
Can you supersize a snake - shivers at the thought!
I think it must be flawed because I'm sure I'm not *that* autistic . Actually I am but I like to think I'm not or I just haven't worked out the depth of my autisticness yet.
"Sarah" <sarah.nospam@gmail.com> wrote in message news:34iemrF4cdb00U1@individual.net...> I think it must be flawed because I'm sure I'm not *that* autistic .> Actually I am but I like to think I'm not or I just haven't worked out> the depth of my autisticness yet.>
Sarah>
How Autisitic is autistic? Until I started reading I thought I was normal and everyone else was screwed up - come to think of it nothing has changed!!!!!!
Rowe Rickenbacker 11 January 2005 21:23:18 [ permanent link ]
Gareeth wrote:
jamie dolan wrote:>
I think this means I have asburgers, what do you think....>
It's Asperger's not asburgers.
Argh! My world has just been turned upside-down!
Rowe zufferiug frow wirroreq letter zynqrowe. -- I am a hat of justice perched upon the heads of the wicked. Feel my soft felt lining and quiver, villain!
Rowe gonna look at those ingredients lists more closely in the future... -- I am a hat of justice perched upon the heads of the wicked. Feel my soft felt lining and quiver, villain!
"Colin" <Bigcol2@btinternet.com> wrote in news:cs0vgg$jt3$1@titan.btinternet.com:
"ares" <ares@verizon.net> wrote in message> news:5hSEd.15386$lG.11374@trnddc03...>> I guess that wasn't related to the thought I had about>> snake burgers when > I>> saw the thread, eh?>> ares>>
Can you supersize a snake - shivers at the thought!>
Colin>
Reminds me of a game I've been playing - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
How Autisitic is autistic? Until I started reading I thought I was normal> and everyone else was screwed up - come to think of it nothing has> changed!!!!!!
I think it's to do with how I think I seem to other people. I used to think that I could act and fitted in but always got overloaded. Nowadays I don't bother acting and just do whatever seems right. I could have filled that questionnaire in a while back ad got a totally different number. I think that at home my oddity was responded to by teaching me to act which I paid for a lot with overload. I know I'm not like other people (well, I'm like other autistic people anyway) but it's strange getting used to that. Dunno if I'm talking drivel or making sense. Oh well.
Rowe Rickenbacker 11 January 2005 22:20:36 [ permanent link ]
Matt wrote:
Colin wrote:>
ares wrote:>>
I guess that wasn't related to the thought I had about snake>>> burgers when I saw the thread, eh?>>
Can you supersize a snake - shivers at the thought!>
Reminds me of a game I've been playing - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake> Eater.
LOL
Rowe Walks into McDonalds "one aspburger, please!" Eats. Game over. -- I am a hat of justice perched upon the heads of the wicked. Feel my soft felt lining and quiver, villain!
Rapum Lucidum 11 January 2005 23:38:36 [ permanent link ]
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:54:51 +0000, Sarah <sarah.nospam@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it must be flawed because I'm sure I'm not *that* autistic . >Actually I am but I like to think I'm not or I just haven't worked out >the depth of my autisticness yet.>
The exact score probably depends a lot on whether someone's ASD characteristics happen match up with those checked by the test, and also their interpretation of the test. So someone could feel very autistic but have a low score, or feel not very autistic but just happen to relate to a lot of things in the test.
-- The Luminous Turnip [professionally self-dx'd AS] Spectrum code: AS d- s:- a-- c++>+++ p+>+++ t+(+++) f-(--) S+ p@ e+>+++ h++ r-->+-+-+- n*(+) i+++++ P- m(+) M@ (well depends what day it is really)
Jeremy Reece 12 January 2005 00:06:43 [ permanent link ]
Colin wrote:> Might just be the weighting - It has been suggested that it is flawed.
A problem with the test is that when I tried to say that I don't adhere to a given trait as rigidly now as when I was younger, I was forced into 'down-playing' my current situation.
It might have extended the test time but more options (0 to 5 for example) would've allowed me to say what I wanted to more easily.
Also, there are too many questions. I got bored and started to lose interest towards the end and took later questions less seriously than earlier ones.
119/162 by the way, which is rubbish. I'm as much as an autie now as I was then, I just don't throw things* and stamp my feet any more ;)
The autist formerly known as 12 January 2005 00:45:22 [ permanent link ]
As I have told SBC's team before but they have conciosly created an artificial construct of a test to force the ansers in a particular way there is no accident about it, they apparantly know what they are doing and I think that is reprehensible. Outside of its use as a parlour game or diagnostic tool it would not last long even in the wooly disciplines of sociology as a serios reserch tool.
-- юT
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Jack" <jjackm@invalid.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:QSKEd.6926$mo2.467145@news.xtra.co.nz...> jamie dolan wrote:>
I think that this test is a good one. But WHY does it have the same> weighting (1 point) for all answers?> Wouldn't it be more sensible to score "Definitely agree" and "Definitely> disagree" as 2 points, and "Slightly agree" and "Slightly disagree" as 1> point?> Even better would be to score the more important AS indicators a bit> higher than others. This would be easy to do; the test is being done by> a computer after all.>
Naturally the whole trial will have to be rescored. But this should be> done. Then the test would be even more useful.>
The autist formerly known as 12 January 2005 00:54:27 [ permanent link ]
Actually he is not entirely wrong as that former fount of all knowlege Alwyn late of this list pointed out the derivation of the Austrian doctors family name being a corruption of Asch Berger the perg sylable however we pronounce it being a corruption in speech of Berg or mountain
p and b being a particular labial formation that get confused the differentiation not even existing in some languages
So there.
-- юT
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Gareeth" <Gareethnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:34hdn0F48tgmhU1@individual.net...>
"jamie dolan" <jamie@ashwoodinc.com> wrote in message> news:hgKEd.13691$by5.12535@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...> >I think this means I have asburgers, what do you think....> >
Do you know if any good web site to point me to that can help me >> figure out if I have this or not? and that give me more information >> about the disorder.>
The autist formerly known as 12 January 2005 01:33:37 [ permanent link ]
Not in my books, believing the tests is a fail point.
-- юT
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Morris" <morris@nospam.cling> wrote in message news:dgXEd.103978$48.26759@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...> Graham W wrote:> > jamie dolan wrote:> >
HI,> >>
I think that I have aspburgers.> >>
Do you know if any good web site to point me to that can help me> >> figure out if I have this or not? and that give me more information> >> about the disorder.> >
The autist formerly known as 12 January 2005 02:27:22 [ permanent link ]
Tests at best are only indicators, you always have in real life to rule out other explanations for the results before you can confirm AS.
The most critical thing is whether the propensities that the tests measure have existed since childhood, but in order to know that you would have to deconstruct the tests.
However if you have deconstructed the tests then there is a danger that is commonly experienced in sociological studies of participant awareness affecting the outcomes, in that you anser what you think the resercher wants to here, or what you want them to here.
For me, having read about SBC's work and his hypotheses skews any result you might get off me, so I simply refuse to anser those tests without considerable annotation.
I don't know how they got round that, but in effect I forced them to anser certain questions from there own observations rather than my own.
-- юT
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Morris" <morris@nospam.cling> wrote in message news:8%XEd.121373$Z7.70176@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...> The autist formerly known as wrote:> > Not in my books, believing the tests is a fail point.> >
"The autist formerly known as" <NDA@larry-arnold.com> wrote in message news:34iso2F4cjtqrU1@individual.net...> Actually he is not entirely wrong as that former fount of all knowlege > Alwyn> late of this list pointed out the derivation of the Austrian doctors > family> name being a corruption of Asch Berger the perg sylable however we > pronounce> it being a corruption in speech of Berg or mountain> It wasn't remotely close to even Asch Berger. And whatever you say about the derivation of the family name the syndrome has a name.
The autist formerly known as wrote:> Tests at best are only indicators, you always have in real life to rule out> other explanations for the results before you can confirm AS.>
The most critical thing is whether the propensities that the tests measure> have existed since childhood, but in order to know that you would have to> deconstruct the tests.>
However if you have deconstructed the tests then there is a danger that is> commonly experienced in sociological studies of participant awareness> affecting the outcomes, in that you anser what you think the resercher wants> to here, or what you want them to here.>
For me, having read about SBC's work and his hypotheses skews any result you> might get off me, so I simply refuse to anser those tests without> considerable annotation.>
I don't know how they got round that, but in effect I forced them to anser> certain questions from there own observations rather than my own.>
I couldn't answer many of the questions in any of the autism-related tests *really* honestly. The right answers were never given among the limited options available. The IQ test was a lot easier
I've just done the Empathy Quotient test and got 12; most men get a rating of about 42, apparently. The lowest range is 0 - 32, with aspergers averaging below 20.
I got 33 in the AQ test. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. I got a score of 59 in the SQ test as well (men average 30).
"Sarah" <sarah.nospam@gmail.com> wrote in message news:34ih6eF3f25lfU1@individual.net...> How Autisitic is autistic? Until I started reading I thought I was normal> > and everyone else was screwed up - come to think of it nothing has> > changed!!!!!!>
I think it's to do with how I think I seem to other people. I used to> think that I could act and fitted in but always got overloaded.> Nowadays I don't bother acting and just do whatever seems right. I> could have filled that questionnaire in a while back ad got a totally> different number. I think that at home my oddity was responded to by> teaching me to act which I paid for a lot with overload. I know I'm not> like other people (well, I'm like other autistic people anyway) but it's> strange getting used to that. Dunno if I'm talking drivel or making> sense. Oh well.>
Sarah
I used to throwmyself into a lot of social things when I was younger - guess I was actually trying to find something I was good and no prizes for working out the results of these ventures.
The only place I ever felt remotely comfortable (apart from home) was in the military - but even then it was hard as I know there were better ways to do things but you have to obey orders - structure and order is good up to a point, but if it deviates from what helps you survive then it become more of a hinderence.
FAO of HM Government - thanks for the poor fitting woolen trousers and jumpers to go with the classy nylon shirts - hate the feel of those clothes now -generally dress in what I find next to the bed and then wear it to bed. My wife no longer buys herself woolen clothes because I will not let her come near me when she wears it.
Drivel - well thats something I can do - see dripping goo above!!!!!!!!
"Rowe Rickenbacker" <rowerickenbacker@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:34ijhuF49u0l6U1@individual.net...> Colin wrote:>
ares wrote:> >
I guess that wasn't related to the thought I had about snake> >> burgers when I saw the thread, eh?> >
Can you supersize a snake - shivers at the thought!>
They'd be more like sausages, anyway >
Rowe> -- > I am a hat of justice perched upon the heads of the wicked.> Feel my soft felt lining and quiver, villain!
I was thinking of of supersizing an Bacon Double Asp Burger - how much bacon would you have to use to seperate two irate Asp's (if they still alive) Hah! we get to bite the snakes for a change!
Must pop down to my local Fasp Food Chain and use the Slither Through facility.
"Mooncat" <mooncatmail@hotmail.com> wrote in message newsrZEd.637$0G6.121@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...> My God!>
I've just done the Empathy Quotient test and got 12; most men get a> rating of about 42, apparently. The lowest range is 0 - 32, with> aspergers averaging below 20.>
I got 33 in the AQ test. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism> or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. I got a score of 59 in the SQ> test as well (men average 30).>
The only place I ever felt remotely comfortable (apart from home) was in the> military - but even then it was hard as I know there were better ways to do> things but you have to obey orders - structure and order is good up to a> point, but if it deviates from what helps you survive then it become more of> a hinderence.
I'd have real trouble taking orders - I'd want to argue all the time and I would probably self destruct with all the arguing.
FAO of HM Government - thanks for the poor fitting woolen trousers and> jumpers to go with the classy nylon shirts - hate the feel of those clothes> now -generally dress in what I find next to the bed and then wear it to bed.> My wife no longer buys herself woolen clothes because I will not let her> come near me when she wears it.
"Colin" <bigcol2@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:34j7bbF48cbohU1@individual.net...> I was thinking of of supersizing an Bacon Double Asp Burger - how much bacon> would you have to use to seperate two irate Asp's (if they still alive)> Hah! we get to bite the snakes for a change!>
Must pop down to my local Fasp Food Chain and use the Slither Through> facility.>
-- -Jamie "Colin" <bigcol2@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:34hvb4F4a4a1mU1@individual.net...>
"DRosent288" <drosent288@aol.com> wrote in message> news:20050111031339.09758.00000035@mb-m18.aol.com...>> My score was 131--a near-average Aspie.>> alamosaurus@aol.com>
-- -Jamie "Mooncat" <mooncatmail@hotmail.com> wrote in message newsrZEd.637$0G6.121@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...> My God!>
I've just done the Empathy Quotient test and got 12; most men get a rating > of about 42, apparently. The lowest range is 0 - 32, with aspergers > averaging below 20.>
I got 33 in the AQ test. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or > a related disorder scored 32 or higher. I got a score of 59 in the SQ test > as well (men average 30).>
"Molybdenum" <cnmne@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:Lo%Ed.32509$TN6.970117@news20.bellglobal.com...> Colin wrote:>
AQ - 40> > EQ -12 (how do I hold down a relationship?)> > SQ - 34>
Me (Rowe take note!)>
AQ 35 (we all know the Magic Number is 32)> EQ 20 (average for women is 47!!!?)> SQ 38 (average for women is 24)>
NT all the way!!! >
Colin, you and me look like a pretty good match >
Monica> time for a little lie down...
Aw crap, what do I tell my wife now. I've been matched by the Asbergers Dating Agency! Is this going to be a new form of blind date - where we guess which one of us will not turn up first.
Rapum Lucidum 12 January 2005 10:48:30 [ permanent link ]
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:32:40 -0000, "Colin" <bigcol2@btinternet.com> wrote:>
Aw crap, what do I tell my wife now. I've been matched by the Asbergers>Dating Agency! Is this going to be a new form of blind date - where we guess>which one of us will not turn up first.>
Hmm... for a new website... ASD dating service: answer AQ type tests to find your perfect match! Well maybe not dating - more long-term than that, of course
-- The Luminous Turnip [professionally self-dx'd AS] Spectrum code: AS d- s:- a-- c++>+++ p+>+++ t+(+++) f-(--) S+ p@ e+>+++ h++ r-->+-+-+- n*(+) i+++++ P- m(+) M@ (well depends what day it is really)
"The autist formerly known as" <NDA@larry-arnold.com> wrote in message news:34k1mbF4bocopU1@individual.net...> You don't like being wrong, but asperger is most likely a toponym, a name> derived from a place.> It has nothing to do with being wrong. The syndrome is called Asperger's regardless of the origin of the name. Even if you want to make it a topynym from Aschberg (which I wasn't debating) the spelling of the OP was even further from that than Asperger's so I don't know why you are dragging this up. It has absolutely no relevance.
I was kidding. But even though it's debatable whether there is "more autistic" or "less autistic" (as it's not one-dimensional like questionnaires approximate) your insights in matters of austism I believe may have more weight in this newsgroup if you're considered "less functioning" than the majority. It really would depend on whether others identify or not. In any case, it looks like this would be a good newsgroup for you to get support. Your OCD, ADD (and even anxiety/depression) are probably all part or primarily caused by the AS.
--Joe
"Joe S." <booxplode@yahoo.com> wrote in message> news:1105454675.778041.164780@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...> >
jamie dolan wrote:> >> I must be really messed up then.> >>
Mine was soooo high..> >>
Does that mean I am a bad aspie?????????> > No, it means most of the rest of us> > envy you > >
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:32:40 -0000, "Colin" <bigcol2@btinternet.com>> wrote:>
Aw crap, what do I tell my wife now. I've been matched by the Asbergers>>Dating Agency! Is this going to be a new form of blind date - where we guess>>which one of us will not turn up first.
Brilliant!
But hey, maybe you should just ask your wife to take the tests too...
Hmm... for a new website... ASD dating service: answer AQ type tests> to find your perfect match! Well maybe not dating - more long-term> than that, of course
"The autist formerly known as" <NDA@larry-arnold.com> wrote in message news:34l81nF4b911aU1@individual.net...> Are you deliberatly misconstruing, If Dr Asperger had been called > something> else then so would the syndrome, however Dr Asperger migh easily have > spelt> his name in another way if he had belonged to a different branch of the> family.> No Larry you are being deliberately confusing by dragging the hypothetical origins of the name Asperger into a post that has nothing to do with them. Don't accuse people of misconstruing things on purpose when your posts confuse the issues.
The autist formerly known as 12 January 2005 23:25:35 [ permanent link ]
No I am not and no they don't
-- юT
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Gareeth" <Gareethnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:34l99gF41euaiU1@individual.net...>
"The autist formerly known as" <NDA@larry-arnold.com> wrote in message> news:34l81nF4b911aU1@individual.net...
No Larry you are being deliberately confusing by dragging the hypothetical> origins of the name Asperger into a post that has nothing to do with them.> Don't accuse people of misconstruing things on purpose when your posts> confuse the issues.>
"Joe S." <booxplode@yahoo.com> 12 Jan 2005 07:05:59 -0800 <1105542359.136023.40840@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
But even though it's debatable>whether there is "more autistic" or "less autistic">(as it's not one-dimensional like questionnaires>approximate) your insights in matters of>austism I believe may have more weight in>this newsgroup if you're considered>"less functioning" than the majority.>It really would depend on whether others>identify or not.
I'd disagree with that perspective - I think it's more to do with showing *understanding* other's experiences, or sometimes just being able to "put them into words".
Just compare the reactions to sggaB and proma1 - it's quite clear from those, that "more autistic" *as such*, carries little weight here.
Rowe Rickenbacker 13 January 2005 03:14:41 [ permanent link ]
Dee wrote:
Can you supersize a snake - shivers at the thought!>>>
They'd be more like sausages, anyway :>
Got the scene of Shrek in my head where they blew the snake> up like a balloon.....ewww
I like the music in that scene
"My little monster and me, we do everything together..."
Rowe has quite good recall for things like that. -- I am a hat of justice perched upon the heads of the wicked. Feel my soft felt lining and quiver, villain!
Terry Jones wrote:> "Joe S." <booxplode@yahoo.com> 12 Jan 2005 07:05:59 -0800> <1105542359.136023.40840@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>>
But even though it's debatable> >whether there is "more autistic" or "less autistic"> >(as it's not one-dimensional like questionnaires> >approximate) your insights in matters of> >austism I believe may have more weight in> >this newsgroup if you're considered> >"less functioning" than the majority.> >It really would depend on whether others> >identify or not.>
I'd disagree with that perspective - I think it's more to do with> showing *understanding* other's experiences, or sometimes just being> able to "put them into words".>
Just compare the reactions to sggaB and proma1 - it's quite clear
from> those, that "more autistic" *as such*, carries little weight here.
I guess so. Not sure what it is that I meant. In Paul's case, the difficulties he's mentioned (like dyslexia) are not typical of others here, at least not to that degree. So I'm guessing "fitting in" depends more on typicality -- but you can always find counter examples.
The more I learn, the most I seem to find that all of this seems to be some what combined.
-- -Jamie "Joe S." <booxplode@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1105542359.136023.40840@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...>
jamie dolan wrote:>> why is that?>> -->> -Jamie>
I was kidding. But even though it's debatable> whether there is "more autistic" or "less autistic"> (as it's not one-dimensional like questionnaires> approximate) your insights in matters of> austism I believe may have more weight in> this newsgroup if you're considered> "less functioning" than the majority.> It really would depend on whether others> identify or not. In any case, it looks like> this would be a good newsgroup for you to> get support. Your OCD, ADD (and even> anxiety/depression) are probably all part> or primarily caused by the AS.>
--Joe>
"Joe S." <booxplode@yahoo.com> wrote in message>> news:1105454675.778041.164780@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...>> >
jamie dolan wrote:>> >> I must be really messed up then.>> >>
Mine was soooo high..>> >>
Does that mean I am a bad aspie?????????>> > No, it means most of the rest of us>> > envy you >> >
Joe S. wrote:> Terry Jones wrote:> > "Joe S." <booxplode@yahoo.com> 12 Jan 2005 07:05:59 -0800> > <1105542359.136023.40840@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>> >
But even though it's debatable> > >whether there is "more autistic" or "less autistic"> > >(as it's not one-dimensional like questionnaires> > >approximate) your insights in matters of> > >austism I believe may have more weight in> > >this newsgroup if you're considered> > >"less functioning" than the majority.> > >It really would depend on whether others> > >identify or not.> >
I'd disagree with that perspective - I think it's more to do with> > showing *understanding* other's experiences, or sometimes just
being> > able to "put them into words".> >
Just compare the reactions to sggaB and proma1 - it's quite clear> from> > those, that "more autistic" *as such*, carries little weight here.>
I guess so. Not sure what it is that I meant.> In Paul's case, the difficulties he's> mentioned (like dyslexia) are not typical> of others here, at least not to that degree.> So I'm guessing "fitting in" depends more> on typicality -- but you can always find> counter examples.>
--Joe
I should correct myself again. It really doesn't have to do with how typical difficulties are, but probably with how typical viewpoints are. The discussion about being "cured" is a good example of that.
I actually an asking about my son, he is now 10 and was diagnosed with ADHD about three years ago. After having an in home counsler,for my oldest daughter, who worked with the family she suggested that I have my son reevaulated for aspergers (hope I spelled that right). With the information that I have found on the internet so far he does display of of the symptoms listed but other things that he does are symptmatic of ADHD. He has a short attention span unless he is doing something that he really has to use his brain with, such as drawing, he can sit in his room and draw for hours, while he does his school work in school and out he talks the whole time and really thinks that no one else can hear him. Movies we have a hard time watching them because he talks through the whole thing simply describing what we have just seen, my mother joked and said once that he would be a very good companion for the blind. He almost never looks you in the eye, if he does it is for a split second and the he averts his eyes again. For the most part he has a very large vocabulary and can speak very well he is very particular about pronounciation, if he cant say it properly he wont use the word until he can pronounce it properly. On the opposite side of this he has a very difficult time communicating his emotions and why he feels the way he does. Math is a breeze for him he was helping his brother who was in 11th grade do his algebra, and Jimmy was doing it in his head. He also seems to think that almost every thing that happens even if it is an accident is purposful, and intentionally hurtful towards him. Well I have taken up enough of your time any feed back that any of you may have would be appreciated. I do not like going into situations with my eyes closed, I am hoping to open them very wide now, and be very aware of what may be going on with my son so that I may give him the attention and help that he may need.
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