So when the majority that thinks I have aspergers I don’t correct them. It’s only the doctors that say I have sz
Actually now that I think about it, I’d rather not be either
Not ONE of my many doctors ever told me I was Sz. I read it on an insurance paper I had to submit to my employer.
Go figure…
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I have bipolar, which is the new “nasty” label. I bought into the shame for a while. Then I began to see it was someone else’s problem.
Same here the docs just would always say psychosis, but when applying for DLA the docs signed me as paranoid schizophrenia, 10 yrs on I still find it hard to believe it.
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Τhe only thing i’m afraid is a relapse not the label,although it has consequences in relationships and the stigma is strong.What matters is how i feel and what i give to society.After 2,5 years of therapy i feel more normal but i have a long way until the top of the mountain.
I don’t like my paranoid PD label mainly because the descriptors of people with it are so negative and as a fearful person with paranoia I struggle to relate to them.
Both autistic and schizophrenia labels would be preferable to the one I’ve got.
I’m diagnosed with both Sz and Autism (high-functioning, mild).
Most of the stigma I encounter is related to my Sz label. (Not a lot, but some.)
Most of the impairments I encounter in day-to-day living are related to classic autism symptoms I suffer from. Autism is more socially acceptable until I get on someone’s nerves, then all bets are off.
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My main problems relate to my social interaction problems/social skills difficulties even if the psychiatrists either don’t want to or scarcely recognise this.
I fit the profile for non verbal learning disorder rather well, which is similar to aspergers, but am not diagnosed with either.
Certainly my NVLD symptoms have restricted my occupational and social functioning more than any mild psychosis might have.
Yes there is severe social anxiety and paranoia but that is very much a a reaction to bullying for being different ie in response to the “NVLD” symptoms.
I have both too
I’m not really bothered about the people who judge - don’t spend time with them
I only partially fit the NVLD mold. If I had a superpower, I think it would be not fitting into any particular hole or group. I would get in trouble with teachers for goofing off and not reading. I can read a 300 page book inside of an hour and retain most of it. The problem was that the rest of the class wasn’t running at my input speed. To this day I hate learning from watching videos or listening to audio because it irks me to have to slow my inputs down to the speed neurotypicals run at.
I have problems with not being able to ramp down certain inputs. If I’m talking to you and looking at your face, I can track every separate muscle movement and find that distracting. I don’t look at people when I’m talking or I get so lost in their faces I forget what I’m talking about. Neurotypicals then think you’re dishonest. Which is hilarious because I see everything going on with their body language – EVERYTHING – and they are much more dishonest than I.
I’m not at all learning disabled. I learn at a speed that intimidates most of the other techs I’ve worked with when left to do it my own way, namely from books and hands-on. If I learn from another tech just please show me once and then leave me alone. I’m good.
I notice patterns easily. Too easily. I see/feel/taste visual representations of them. (Synthesia.) Music especially. Also information and human behaviour. It’s obvious to me what I’m looking at but, damned if I can describe it to non-synthetes. Spoken language is too broken and inefficient. I have to be careful to look away from patterns because I will get lost and stare for hours. Repetitive motion helps create a different pattern I can use to break away from whatever I am getting lost in. I wiggle my feet a lot.
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