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PMS | steelguttey said:
and its a 100% awful thing to say about someone with a social disability
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like, you're right, but at the same time, asperger's syndrome's primary form of treatment is behavior therapy, which is a really fancy way of saying "point out what they're doing and explain to them what to do instead"

jury's currently out on whether or not asperger's is a neurodevelopmental issue (ie. there is something deficient in your brain) or whether it's entirely social (you just sort of didn't learn how to not have asperger's like everyone else) and the psychiatric community generally tends to support treating it like the latter, whether "treating" refers to actual medical practice or social practice
 
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Bleck said:
like, you're right, but at the same time, asperger's syndrome's primary form of treatment is behavior therapy, which is a really fancy way of saying "point out what they're doing and explain to them what to do instead"

jury's currently out on whether or not asperger's is a neurodevelopmental issue (ie. there is something deficient in your brain) or whether it's entirely social (you just sort of didn't learn how to not have asperger's like everyone else) and the psychiatric community generally tends to support treating it like the latter, whether "treating" refers to actual medical practice or social practice
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where/when/why didjya read up on it?
 
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PMS | Tink-er said:
where/when/why didjya read up on it?
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A friend of mine just recently got her master's degree in psychology at the local university; at one point sometime last year she was part of a group that was doing a study on the neuropathology of autism spectrum disorders, and I had her send me information on their findings (which essentially amounted to "if there are any, we can't see it").

The treatment part is stuff I've gleaned from talking to two groups of relatives, one family with someone with asperger's and the other with someone with "actual" autism.
 
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It doesn't matter if you on the Spectrum™ or not, you have no excuse for not gitting gud at fundametanl social skills.
 
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At the age of 3, I was "diagnosed" with Aspergers. I would assume its a neurodevelopmental disorder, seeing as how they diagnose it based on my brain. I wouldn't be surprised if Aspergers was just kind of a social thing, and there was no real disorder going on, but from my experience it wouldn't go along with what I was told.

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Lunchables said:
At the age of 3, I was "diagnosed" with Aspergers. I would assume its a neurodevelopmental disorder, seeing as how they diagnose it based on my brain. I wouldn't be surprised if Aspergers was just kind of a social thing, and there was no real disorder going on, but from my experience it wouldn't go along with what I was told.
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Either you're misunderstanding what you were told, or your doctor is wrong/lying. There is currently no valid neuropathology for any of the autism spectrum disorders, and as such it's also especially unlikely that there was decades ago.
 
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Bleck said:
Either you're misunderstanding what you were told, or your doctor is wrong/lying. There is currently no valid neuropathology for any of the autism spectrum disorders, and as such it's also especially unlikely that there was decades ago.
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so does this mean my memes will always be memes

I want my memes to be real
 
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i was diagnosed with adhd as a kid

it was great, i used it to sleep during state testing because I got infinite time

i don't get it, i think i'm p chill (lazy even) and i think that it was just an excuse to say i was a ****ty kid
 
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PMS | Tink-er said:
i was diagnosed with adhd as a kid

it was great, i used it to sleep during state testing because I got infinite time

i don't get it, i think i'm p chill (lazy even) and i think that it was just an excuse to say i was a ****ty kid
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kinda same

im diagnosed with adhd but its mostly me being a hyper kid and then developing into being real bad at learning and writing which caused me to be unnecessarily good at typing at a young age so my school started providing me with type writers for notes

moral of the story is that adhd usually develops into other stuff that isnt hyperactivity

also nice avatar
 
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my teachers tried to diagnose me with adhd in like 2nd grade and then my parents got a second opinion and it turns out I didn't have adhd I was just bored

so then someone decided I was "gifted and talented" so I got to be with a "specialist" and school got more interesting and didn't suck as much

that was like elementary school though lmao I've been behaviorly relatively "normal" since middle school
 
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