What is my Disability? (page 5)

KateWild

zeb, dog is god, LV 101,

Thanks for your comments. I find humour is great, at time things can be stressful and confusing. But when we look back on a social situation, the humour always seems to come out.

dog, I am sorry you have lost your brother now. I know both my parents have it, with differing symptoms. But they were born in '38 and '41, they are too stubborn to admit it, plus what use will it do in their 70's? They are enjoying their retirment to the full.

LV, I have a funny ministry experience I will relay on the humour thread soon with reagrd to higher order abstractions.

Kate xx

Scott77

JWs by training, are anti-social. If Asperberger's syndrom is all about displaying anti-social behaviors, is not that a perfect combo? Hi KateWild, sorry for the way you have been mistreated.

Scott77

KateWild

scott77,

Yes an absolutely perfect combo. Millions of JWs all with awful social skills professing to be united in love. It really highlights the CULT to me. Kate xx

LV101

Kate - Can't Wait. I assume there's a "humor" thread in progress? Thanks.

WingCommander

Kate,

I recently took an online AS test that is supposedly very good. As a child (I'm 34), I was told I should be in gifted classes, but of course with the New System around the corner it was forbidden. I could read and write before I entered Kindergarten, and I would rock in a car like Rain Man. Many thought I was autistic, etc. Never was tested for that though for some reason. I have a nearly photographic memory, and can even SMELL memories sometimes. I think in right or wrong, with hardly any shades of grey. If I feel screwed over by people, I won't ever speak to them again. I'm introverted to a degree, have some OCD, work in engineering, and I always thought the JW upbring is what screwed me up socially. (feel like I'm YEARS behind socially) However, upon taking this one detailed test (which took like an hour) it appears that I'm really truly on the ASPY side of the spectrum. Guess I should get checked out? Have a look at my results below. Thanks......

- Wing Commander

KateWild

WC,

Isn't it refreshing to figure it out? Welcome fellow AS friend. Personally there is no point at 34 getting a diagnosis. Everyone at work either knows you are strange and weird or they are on the spectrum themselves.

My problem is when I get screwed over I tell all an sundry, it gets me into trouble because I can't keep my mouth shut. What do you think you would gain from a diagnosis? What is your location UK, US, Canada?

Kate xx

WingCommander

Yes Kate, it truly was a "light-bulb" moment seeing my online test results. When I feel betrayed or hurt, I have a helluva time letting it go. I tell people the situation when I shouldn't. It takes over my life making it hard to concentrate or even work. Been in a situation with my a-hole in-laws for a few years now that not only myself (but no one else) can seem to believe. They are so cruel and hateful. My own wife has turned her back on her sister and nieces for their hatefulness. My ASPY makes it 10x worse, cause I actually wrote them a letter telling them where to go, and what to do with themselves when they get there. That just made wife's parents mad. (Cause god forbid you stand up to the "favoured ones" and defend yourself and your family). UGH!!!!!!

- Wing Commander

KateWild

Been there with the in laws. They won't have any of it when you tell 'em straight. They are all on the spectrum probably, but just won't accept they are ever wrong.

MIL, stands for Monster In Law. She is a nightmare

Love Kate xx

LisaRose

I worked with a guy I am pretty sure had Aspergers. We were both programmer/analysts. He was more of a programmer, I was more of an analyst, he was a genius when it came to coding (I just hacked at it). He was the odd duck in his very intellectual family, not that he wasn't smart, but that he was the only one with no advanced degree. He just had trouble reading social situations. He was playing practical jokes on our senior manager to the point where she asked him to stop, but he still wanted to continue. He would be very helpful, but if you did not appreciate his help in the way he expected, he would become very hurt and start behaving very badly, I had to ask him to leave my cubicle a few times. He would only eat certain things, other things would make him gag, something to do with the texture.

I'll never know for sure I guess, but if he was, it would explain a lot.

KateWild

Lisa, yes totally all those symptoms you describe, he is defo on the spectrum. Has he still got his job?

Kate xx

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