Trump brought the Regeneracy, just not in the way he expected.

[Kinser79]

(03-13-2017, 07:34 AM)Odin Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 10:09 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 06:48 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 05:33 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: If the Left could transmute autistic screeching into political power we'd have a communist state by now.  Unfortunately I strongly suspect that it is just autistic screeching.  I'm sure Odin, Eric and others see these protests and are like "OMG its Civil Rights all over again" while everyone else sees this.

I'm buying stock in ear plugs companies.

"Autistic screeching" really? You know that many of us here are on the spectrum, right? You are a massive jack-ass.

Come on, Odin, let's not play this game.  Even I have been accused of being on "the spectrum", including by a VA psychiatrist (I also had another, much more highly-regarded psychiatrist tell me that was stupid and she wasn't surprised the other doctor worked at the VA).

The only person on here I would genuinely believe has some sort of pervasive developmental disorder is PBrower, who somehow manages to be monotone and avoid making eye contact even in a written exchange conducted over the Internet.  The rest of us are just geeks.  Or cranks, lot of those around here, too.

I had a full screening when I was 15 and am officially diagnosed. It's not nearly as obvious, anymore, in my outward behavior compared to when I was younger, but I still have plenty of stereotypically autistic sensory issues.

Oh, and a common behavior in young autistic kids is them walking on their toes, one of my nicknames when I was a little kid was "tippy-toes".

I think Brower's issues come more from depression than from his Asperger's.

The only reason I didn't have a full screening is because when that VA doctor suggested it I was already an adult and told him to go fuck himself.  Of course I've not been back to the VA.  I experienced socialized medicine...I ran back to the private sector.

I don't know about the toe walking but when I was much younger I was easily annoyed by tags on clothing and florescent lighting.  I've sense gotten over it.  I'm not sure if that has anything to do with autism or something to do with being a child.  Children tend to be more sensitive to stimuli than adults because they are more affected by small changes in environment (and I would imagine that some have more acute senses than others).  I was also incredibly socially awkward, still am.

Apparently instead of avoiding eye contact, I maintain eye contact so long as to make people uncomfortable.  It doesn't help that my default facial expression essentially looks like I'm pissed off.

Social awkwardness diminishes over time for most people.  I don't know how it works for most people, I've not discussed it with them.  But for me, what happened is I stopped giving a fuck what other people thought, unless I was fucking them, lived with them or worked with them.

However, the point I was making, is that the definitions for Asperger's were so broad as to include everyone on the planet.  I'm sorry (okay not really) but a disorder that everyone has, isn't a disorder.  By its shear commonness it is normal and its  absence abnormal.

So you may or may not be on the spectrum.  I'd suggest considering you're what 30-ish now you have a re-screening. 

As for PBR...yeah, I'm pretty sure he's depressed.  He may also have a co-morbid anxiety condition.

Not-Doctor Kinser prescribes 2 joints in the morning and 2 joints at night.