09-22-2017, 07:31 PM
(09-22-2017, 03:30 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(09-21-2017, 01:04 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-20-2017, 08:58 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: You don't have Asperger's because that isn't a recognized condition. In short you don't have it because no one does. I also highly doubt you have any spectrum disorder at all.
It was removed from DSM V, but a lot of people disagree with that change.
However, if what you're arguing is that it's not a disability, I agree. It's a difference, but not a disability.
Convincing him that it is was a disability was just part of the mechanism to trap him onto the welfare plantation. Perhaps you've already realized that.
Lots of people disagree with the change. Doesn't mean that they are right. I'm sure that lots of people would disagree with my own determination that ADD (a condition I was diognosed with, though thankfully not drugged for--Grandad wouldn't have it thank <insert favorite deity here>).
The only chemical I use to deal with the anxiety is alcohol. I am an oddity at the clinic in which I got therapy (most adults treated there there area alcoholics and addicts) in which the therapist actually suggested that I have a drink on occasion. One drink (a beer or a glass of wine) -- enough to dissolve anxiety, but not enough to dissolve my conscience or affect my shaky balance.
Quote:Autism Spectrum is not a disability. I've actively sought out persons on the spectrum as employees for some tasks as I've stated in the past. Perhaps PBR wouldn't like being a donut finisher but my two finishers who are on the spectrum seem to do alright.
All right (alright is substandard). It's a matter of perception, and I can think of two attributes of you to which you admit.
Quote:PBR didn't have to be convinced. He has a long history of seeking out being disabled, or the victim, and other such things. Honestly I think he has arrested development.
Frankly, I would rather have been told that nothing is wrong with me, and that I might as well take a job as a convenience-store clerk.
Quote:As for welfare, yeah it is a trap. You get on it, and get a couple kids or something you really can't attempt to work for someone else, or even yourself legally without losing your benefits. In many cases the loss of the benefits could equate to about the same as someone losing a 35K/year job.
Tell me about it. I know of a teenager who got pregnant with two darling little cash cows at age 14... her sister, who has much more going for her would have taken custody if given the chance, but you can be sure that the idiot screen is turned on all the time, and never to PBS.
Quote:Granted I get by on 30K/year but the boyfriend makes far more and we intentionally keep our expenses low, so low as to have moved into my Grandmother's house as it is paid off (and she had willed it to me anyway).
I have never been one to waste money. I envy only two things about the rich -- foreign travel (Italy, Austria, and Switzerland would be at the top of the list) and economic security, something that the economic elites must deny to all but themselves. Jewelry, expensive cars, bloated housing, gambling jaunts -- not for me. Just let me see a little live theater on occasion... and of course listen to great classical music. Like Shostakovich string quartets and Mozart operas. It's not snobbery -- this is simply good.
The cover of the office chair at which I input stuff on the computer and read responses or watch videos has started to wear. So what did I do? Buy a new chair? No. I went to a thrift shop and bought a $4 blanket to cover it. That saves $70.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.