Autism.

Primus inter pares · #1 07-11-2006, 09:41 AM

Hello are there some autists on this forum?.

I have Aspergers Syndrome a high functioning form of autism (not to be confused with "high functioning autism")
where the person have normal to high IQ and special interests but have problems in social things and often have problems with their senses (to sensitive or to little sensitive).

I will also ask anybody on this forum about what they think about autism (don´t forget it is a really broad spectrum!).

Dusan · #2 07-11-2006, 11:08 AM

I'm not sure, maybe I have that syndrom. I also have problems in social things. Making new friends is so disicult [spelling] for me, but I'm great with my old friends. We allways have great time together. Maybe my problem is selfconfidance [spelling].
I found on google that also simptom of that syndrom is "Unusual, formal style of speaking ","abnormal interesting in particular subject" and "normal and high IQ".
Well my Iq is around 110 (not much but...), and I thhink that i have first two simptoms too.
I'm sensitive but not too sensitive. I'm the only guy who can listen other people's problems and talk about them. But I also like argue!!!
I would like to add that my friends told to me that i'm strange in the good way.

Matriar · #3 07-11-2006, 11:21 AM

My parents told me I do have Aspergers Syndrome...but I hate them for this. Why do people think, guys who are different are sick?

Well, I better repress my feelings and don't write something here anymore. Otherwise it would get too worse...

Dusan · #4 07-11-2006, 11:22 AM

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Why think people, guys who are other are sick?

translate this please

ANN NEELY · #5 07-11-2006, 11:38 AM

I have Asberger's. I hated my parents when I found out I was in Special Ed. with all the "weird people". I'm not too concerned about it anymore, though.
I have problems with speech and expressing myself with facial expressions and sign language. I can't look at people's faces without feeling challenged. I still think I'm just shy, and that someone gave me a bullshit analysis.

Dusan · #6 07-11-2006, 11:43 AM

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I can't look at people's faces without feeling challenged.

Same thing here, but i think that that can be cured... and maybe shy is a problem

Rex Tirano · #7 07-11-2006, 12:45 PM

A member called Salty_Pretzils has aspys-syndrome and her little brother has autism.

I have neither.

- Rexy

Matriar · #8 07-11-2006, 01:22 PM

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translate this please

I already corrected my mistake...

Slaveless · #9 07-11-2006, 01:48 PM

I'm not autistic, but I have a cousin that is autistic. And being austisic does not mean you have social problems. There are certain kinds of ausism and one type means that you have constant ignorance to reality. Here's the definition of autism,

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"in psychology, a state of mind characterized by daydreaming, hallucination, and disregard of external reality."

So I'm thinking that if you were this autism, I doubt that you would be interested in this forum board. Although, when you are autisitic, you are in fact intellgent, but in a different way.

Matriar · #10 07-11-2006, 01:53 PM

(Me? Intelligent? Now I doubt that I really am one...!)

used:) · #11 07-11-2006, 02:14 PM

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Well, I better repress my feelings and don't write something here anymore. Otherwise it would get too worse...

Yes and let it fester there where it will one day become a mental illness.

Hmmm, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Because of this I was put on the learning support list. One day someone found out and told everyone about it. Since then I have been regarded as a sped and treated as if I were mentally weak.

It's not that people with these conditions like ADD are stupid. I mean, I prefer to think of them as people who are willing to see all the options available at the time. In my beliefs, most of the 'slow' kids aren't in their positions because they're stupid, it's because they just lack motivation. I could care less if I nod off every once and a while. I've meditated some of the greatest things possible about lifea and probably wouldn't have been possible without my so called condition. It's more of a gift rather than a weakness in actuality.

Primus inter pares · #12 07-11-2006, 02:14 PM

Slaveless, for me it sounds like scizophrinia, can you please tell what kind of autism you are meaning.
Yes persons with high functioning autism, Aspergers Syndrome, and autistic savants can be considered intelligent but in a different way, but what with the mental retarded, not savanted autists like the 3/4 of the infantil autists (infantil autism is also known as classic autism).

Zerox · #13 07-11-2006, 02:29 PM

I have high functioning autism and an IQ of 144 (yay! Go me!)
Anyway, I do well in some areas, but not that well in others. Um...I didn't really feel I had any problems...that i really notice, anyway.
What I think is retarded is that people used to think autism was the mothers fault because they didn't bond with them properly or something...what bullc*ap.
Why are you asking about autism anyway, may I ask? because you have it, or...?
I also wasn't aware that there were this many autists here. Nice to know that you're not too different, though. Or something like that, anyway.

Dusan · #14 07-11-2006, 02:34 PM

Wait. ADHD is a illnes (can I call that this way) when person is to much active, am I right? But by you used, 'slow' persons are the one with autism?

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I've meditated some of the greatest things possible about lifea and probably wouldn't have been possible without my so called condition. It's more of a gift rather than a weakness in actuality.

agree...

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Nice to know that you're not too different

Why?.

Patrick Vykkers · #15 07-11-2006, 03:30 PM

No, I'm pretty sure "slow" people are the ones with mental retardation. As for my thoughts on autism, well it's a psychiatric disorder, I wrote in a paper that I thought a cure would be found by 2029 and... *coughing heard in background* I may have a very mild form of Aspergers Syndrome.

Statikk HDM · #16 07-11-2006, 03:38 PM

Isn't that when the machines take over?
Just kidding.
I knew a few people with it, I'm friends with one guy, Andy, with it. His speech is just a little messed up.

***Nate*** · #17 07-11-2006, 09:41 PM

I used to think that I had a mild case of autism because I was terrible in social situations and was just basically ****ed up in others. More recently I've decided that I probably have ADD, which would explain much of my life thus far.

But then, I could also be a hypochondriac.

Kamille · #18 07-11-2006, 09:58 PM

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I have Asberger's. I hated my parents when I found out I was in Special Ed. with all the "weird people". I'm not too concerned about it anymore, though.
I have problems with speech and expressing myself with facial expressions and sign language. I can't look at people's faces without feeling challenged. I still think I'm just shy, and that someone gave me a bullshit analysis.

I can't express myself through facial expressions either i always think i'm smiling when i'm not and really i always have the same expression on my face, another social problem i have is i never know what to say to people i don't know i think i just have self esteem

Facsimile · #19 07-12-2006, 02:16 AM

Didn't the guy in Rain Man have autism?

"Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart"
I really should see the rest of that movie...

If that was autism, what sort of super abilities do you guys have, like his counting one?

Havoc · #20 07-12-2006, 04:08 AM

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where the person have normal to high IQ and special interests but have problems in social things and often have problems with their senses (to sensitive or to little sensitive).

Hey, that sounds like me. Well whaddayaknow, I'm autistic!

Dusan · #21 07-12-2006, 05:56 AM

You're such an asshole...

sketch · #22 07-12-2006, 06:32 AM

I don't know whether I have autism but I'm sure I have slight problems for example I don't like strange smells on my hands, I sometimes act really hyper (a bit like gir from invader zim but I know exactly what I'm doing and do it on purpose but only indoors) and I have a strong dislike for people (more of a disgust.... and hatred)

Kamille · #23 07-12-2006, 07:11 AM

I always have to wash my hands before doing something like holding a game controller or building a model, ah well we all have our own little personality quirks that make us who we are

Havoc · #24 07-12-2006, 07:25 AM

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You're such an asshole...

Thanks, I love you too. But I was being serious, actualy.

Mutual Friend · #25 07-12-2006, 10:31 AM

I've always said I'm vaguely autistic cos the chicks dig it.

Zeikio · #26 07-12-2006, 11:15 AM

I have Aspergers too! I have no friends mostly because I much rather be to myself then with the rude annyoing people around now a day's. Plus I have a very hard time making eye contact but my goddamned techers at school try to make me make eye contace with them and other people, how whould you like it if a techer just comes up to you while your talking with someone and tells you to make eye contact not to mention you don't like doing it!!!!! UGH!!!!

Anywho I too hate the fact I have to be stuck with the weird kids (There's two retarded boy's in my class who are gay and made out in front of us once....just yuck....) but I suck at just about everything my highschool has to offer so I don't have a choice but I really don't like most of my techers because they are extreamly mean even to the kids that don't know left from right and they alway's seem to be in a bad mood constently complaning about how they hate grading homework and such.

Just to make worse my first year of highschool had to be the worse year of my life not to meantion my parents seem to only make it worse. Worse of all I'm so shy and crap from the lack of socal interaction that I can't even go into a store and buy something without getting scared, half the time I have to bring someone in with me so I don't feel worried.

Zerox · #27 07-12-2006, 11:17 AM

That's dumb, that is. Taking advantage like that...
I think autism is mainly a social problem. I sometimes prefer to be alone or only with people I know well, I do sometimes find it awkward talking with some people I don't know so well in school as friends. Also, I know that I didn't start talking for quite a while and my mum got worried about it...now I can spell WAY better than alot of people at school...I'm in year 9 and someone spelt 'another' as 'anoughter'. I mean, come on...no offense to the guy, but still...
You can't really just think you're autistic, there are tests etc. available. Ask a doc about it.
It's doubtful that a cure could be found. Its a mental problem, and that kind of operation on the brain would be incredibly risky, expensive, and all that junk.
What I meant about the nice to know that you're not too different is that you /I don't feel quite so seperate from everyone else because of autism. Knowing there's a fair few people here with it as opposed to just me.

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Anywho I too hate the fact I have to be stuck with the weird kids (There's two retarded boy's in my class who are gay and made out in front of us once....just yuck....)

Um...right...you're kidding, right?
Also, I'm a bit worried about your social problems etc. You should be being given some extra help in school. If you're not, thats illegal, I think. You have a right to it. If the teachers are especially nasty to you for reasons to do specifically with autism, do them in or something. Ask at the hospital, some social support group or something. if tis too serious a problem, call some serious authorities and all...

Primus inter pares · #28 07-12-2006, 12:06 PM

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Didn't the guy in Rain Man have autism?

"Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart"
I really should see the rest of that movie...

If that was autism, what sort of super abilities do you guys have, like his counting one?

Yes Raymond Babbit did have autism in the Rain Man movie.
He had good functioning autism, not so good functioning, so it will be considered high functioning autism, but still good functioning.

But he also had Savant Syndrome, a condition where the person is often mentally retarded, but have incredble powers by some kind, like Rain Man are good to calculate and remember, some others have photographic memory (they just need to see a picture for eksample in T.V., and then they can paint it perfectely), some others have perfect absolute picht (they just need to hear a melody, and then they can pefectely play it on a musical instrument without problems), and so on and so on.

The most incredeble is Kim Peek who inspired Rain Man, Kim Peek can read two pages in a book at the same time (left eye reads the left page, and right eye reads the right page), and he reads the two pages on 10 seconds, and he can rembember 99% of it.

He can in fact remember his 6700 books, all american post box numbers, and all the american cities local telephone code.
But as i have heard, he is not autistic, but he have no corpus callosum, damage to the cerebellum, and he was born with macrocephaly.

The other most incredeble is Daniel Tammet, because he can calculate like Rain Man, but he is not retarded, and he can explain how he does it (he is a synaesthetic, a condition where the person mix the inputs in the brain, even the senses and can for eksample taste colors, see sounds, feel smeels, and taste pain, and he have a sound and a size for each number to 10.000, so when you for eksample ask him: "what is 5467^2", his brain will make the numbers "code" and then make the result "code", and then he just need to remember which number does have that code and then he says the answer: "29.888.089")

Actually there is only circa 25 savants on the whole earth, so do not think that any of us have it.

But actually there is many like you who thinks that if a person does have autism, the person is also automatically savant.

P.S.: Savant Syndrome + Autism = Autistical Savant.

P.P.S.: The Savant Syndrome is also called Idiot Savant, because many are mentally retarded.

AquaticAmbi · #29 07-12-2006, 10:03 PM

I've known at least one person with a type of autism. I think it might have been Aspergers Syndrome, but I think he used the word "disease" in place of syndrome. I felt really bad for the kid; he didn't know how to behave and talk appropriately in social situations but always had the best of intentions. I also felt like a piece of shit and incredibly guilty after I found out about his mental condition because I had recently laughed at crap he was saying. Not like... "I'm laughing in your face because you're stupid" laughter, but I would try to conceal my uncontrollable bursts of laughter when he said something really weird... I should have figured out something was a bit wrong with him.

I've also encountered lots of other autistic kids in my school and through my school's key club (community service organization). I think it's among the most interesting disorders; I've read tons about it in and outside of the classroom, and everytime I learn something new about it. Some of the people with it are literally geniuses but can't use their skills or communicate their knowledge efficiently.

I think it's kind of alarming that autism is on the rise, but no scientists or doctors know what causes it or how to treat it.

Patrick Vykkers · #30 07-12-2006, 10:42 PM

Indeed. Hopefully, more money and manpower will be poured into efforts to study and cure it. Although I did read in New Scientist that the autism epidemic might be a myth...