Fighting The Fourth Reich

[pbrower2a]

(08-24-2017, 12:31 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(08-24-2017, 12:22 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Once again you are totally full of crap. There are many un diagnosed or late diagnosed Autistics who are over 50. Many idiots used to think Autism was "a kid thing" and therefore there was no concept of diagnosing adults. Diagnosing adults really began in earnest 10 - 15 years ago. Even so, most diagnoses were of people who were not high functioning. They were mostly people mis diagnosed as mentally ill.

Actually I'm fairly open to PBR being merely mentally ill.  The facts, however, are that he doesn't have a diagnosis. Until he gets an actual diagnosis I have no reason to believe he actually has any spectrum disorder.

I have a diagnosis. It is not mental illness, but it is impairment. It is Asperger's.

I have seen some of the literature, and it describes me well. I could be in a cloud about reality because (1) I was likely to treat my anxiety (it goes with the territory) as normal because I cannot imagine living without anxiety, (2) I was likely to fault myself, and (3) I was in a family which thought any interaction with professionals in mental health a great shame. "Jewish science" or something like that.

I have a handicap. It is simply not as visible as needing a wheelchair for mobility or to need a service animal to compensate for blindness. It is no less real. It is not mental illness to the extent that I have impaired intellect or delusional thought.

I could never use Asperger's as a mitigating factor in a criminal judgment (so what. Someone with Asperger's can get help in seeking employment under ADA and getting suitable accommodation. There are jobs for which someone with Asperger's can be well suited. Those must recognize our inadequacies in understanding non-verbal communications.

I have an anxiety disorder; it goes with the territory. I could never figure that one out because I saw nothing abnormal. But anxiety can cripple one. I am one of the few people who has gone to a therapist and been told that I can have a drink to deal with anxiety. This is in a clinic that deals heavily with people with substance disorders. (An irony: I am harshly judgmental about drugs and alcoholism. One characteristic of Asperger's is that we who have it almost never have problems with addiction). 

Kinser, you either have little empathy (I know your posting habits, and you have stood for ideologies well suited to sociopathic personalities) or you fail to understand me.