Fighting The Fourth Reich

[Kinser79]

(08-25-2017, 03:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I got the diagnosis from a professional. I was surpised, but I was also convinced.

Unless you went to a psychologist, and he conducted extensive tests, then you do not have a diognosis.  There is a reason why diognostic tests are conducted.  To confirm a hypothesis that one has a condition.

Quote:The literature confirms the diagnosis and explains much.

I'm sure that the literature explains much, but it cannot confirm a diagnosis.  Otherwise my mother would contract Lyme disease or bipolar disorder, or some sort of off the wall cancer every time she goes to WebMD.

Diagnostic tests administrated by a psychologist and literature are NOT the same.

Quote:Every healthy person has some tendencies. Everybody is a little paranoid, schizophrenic, bipolar, ADHD, etc. ... or he has some big problem.

Everyone has some tendencies.  Depression, mania, paranoia yes.  Schizophrenia not so much.  ADD/ADHD doesn't even exist.

https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Does-Not-Exi...+not+exist  

Quote:People get disability benefits for it.

That doesn't mean shit.  I have a cousin who is supposedly disabled (he claims to be down in his back), but amazingly he has no problem doing anything he decides he wants to do.  Well except work that is.  That some people have used an unrecognized "disorder" to scam the welfare state is not evidence you have that disorder, or any other disorder.

Quote:Of course I would rather have paid work... but if I got industrial work I would be an industrial accident waiting to happen.I do not have the temperament for most office work. Retail sales? Misfit because I could seem creepy for asking too many questions instead of reading body language.

Being utterly useless does not mean you have a spectrum disorder either.  Indeed, you say you can't do most office work, or retail sales.  Yet, I know that at least for some time you were a substitute teacher.  Granted that isn't exactly productive but I'm not buying it that you are so worthless as a human being as to actually be completely unemployable.


Indeed, having several autistic people under my employ, a donut finisher and a kitchen porter, I rather consider it insulting to them that you'd make such claims.  You'd be surprised how some with autism who have a great attention to detail are absolutely perfect for overnight donut finishing.  They don't require interaction, and often shun it, and their attention to detail results in nearly perfect donut decorating.  As for my kitchen porter he can fix an oven with chicken wire and bubble gum even if he finds discussing the latest workplace gossip excruciating.
 

Quote:Low intelligence, permanent delusion...

Neither of which are the case with high functioning autism.

Quote:"This is Asperger's... this is Asperger's", says the clinical psychologist in a screening. I had gone to a session with the expectation of a residential stay for a couple days. The clinic made clear that I did not want to be there. Patients there for treatment for drugs or alcohol would hate me. I might leave the next morning to find my car trashed.

I have lived with Asperger's and not known that I had it.  Some people did see keys to it in my writing in other Forums.

No you basically spoke with a social worker since you went to a substance abuse treatment facility.  Drug addicts and alcoholics are not mentally ill and thus do not need a psychologist.  Furthermore, if this social worker did suspect Asperger's (which is not recognized in the DSM--and that is vitally important as it is practically the bible for the psychiatric industry) then you should have been referred to someone who specialized in spectrum disorders.

The only thing I've been able to tell about your psychology on the basis of forum posts is that you refuse to take responsibility for your life being shit.  It is expected in children, and very young adults.  It makes you look like, and be, a loser in older adults.  And being a loser and having autism are not the same thing.  

Quote:I got several months of therapy, some of it intended to reduce the rigidity of my patterns of thought. I asked how I was progressing... and I have been doing better. 

If you're using the word "therapy" to describe the classical talk therapy then that isn't the correct treatment usually used to treat adults with spectrum disorders.  Typically cognitive-behavoral therapies are used.

I found this after a two minute googling:

https://www.verywell.com/treatments-for-...ome-259901

Quote:You were a Stalinist in the predecessor Forum before you became a supporter of Donald Trump. You are a True Believer, and except that you are gay and black, you would be a candidate for KKK membership.

I doubt I would join the KKK.  Not that they even really have a presence anymore. And yes, I support Daddy.  But I was prepared to vote for any Republican over Hillary, even low energy Jeb! Bush.

Quote:I did not choose to have Asperger's. I can imagine far worse. Without Asperger's I would have a much better life.

Not quite.  You've basically failed at life, so in flailing around to find an excuse since your dead parents can't be realistically blamed you glommed onto a disorder which isn't even recognized.  In your case you did choose.  In the case of my employees, they did not.

Quote:As for empathy based upon some tribal loyalty -- I have no idea of what 'tribe' I would want to identify.

A better question should be what tribe would even want you.