I'm coming out...

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by phil_

Also, while I'm here, I had no idea you hadn't already told us that you had some kind of Aspergers, bluestarultor. Your long posts about coding that go beyond what anyone who doesn't write code would understand must've given you away. Keep making those posts, though. Now I've gotta go archive digging to see what functionality of this board we owe to you.

I'll make it quick for you: pretty much nothing. I did the Spoiler, Spoiler2, and IMGHide tag icons for my blue name, took a look at the Spoiler code without my changes being used to my knowledge, and offered some code for glow text that never was implemented.

I might be missing something, but overall I don't think anything I've ever offered has been implemented except the icons.

[Magus]

What a disappointment. I thought Blues was going to reveal his secret shame: that he does indeed write fan fiction and shitloads of it. Can't get enough of that shit, and his outspoken hatred of it is simply his attempts at getting others to overlook his deep obsession with shipping his favorite video game and anime characters.

Instead we just get this rather obvious non-interesting reveal of a "secret" Asperger's disorder. I would be much more surprised to have it revealed that 90% of this board's members do not have Asperger's!

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

The DSM tends to be vague, contradictory, indicitave of multiple disorders with the same symptoms in a lot of places though. I'm not even sure how much clinical psychologists use it I can't see how it would be that helpful to be honest.
Not that I'm a clinical psychologist or anything, just that pretty much every time I hear about the DSM from psychologists they are bitching about it.

This is entirely true. Just, you know, saying that something is undefined because the definition is vague kinda strikes me the same way, say, "It still gets cold in the winter, therefore global wanging is a myth," strikes me. It hurts to be struck.

But, yeah, take depression for instance. Out of the checklist, we've got "Either sleeps too much or can't sleep" and "Has increased appetite or no appetite." And the eating thing doesn't correlate with depression anymore than the average population to begin with! But, you need something with inter-rater reliability to satisfy insurance companies, and the DSM is what we have.

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by phil_

But, yeah, take depression for instance. Out of the checklist, we've got "Either sleeps too much or can't sleep" and "Has increased appetite or no appetite." And the eating thing doesn't correlate with depression anymore than the average population to begin with! But, you need something with inter-rater reliability to satisfy insurance companies, and the DSM is what we have.

Man, depression is also way over-diagnosed. You can basically go in and tell someone you're feeling sad and they'll hand you some uppers so you can be on your way... in Canada, at least. Hurray for free healthcare.

People occasionally do that so they can qualify for financial aid too.

...

Anyway, sorry if I came off a little rough (or a lot rough). It's been a bit of a day.

[synkr0nized]

So since this is an Internet forum I've kind of assumed a lot of you have Asperger's. That seems to be the trend anymore.

[Solid Snake]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that while depression may be over-diagnosed, it is also very real, as I've experienced it firsthand on occasional intervals throughout my life.

That being said, lately I've privately suspected I might be type II bipolar. My life experiences and mood fluctuations seem comparable with the symptoms.

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that while depression may be over-diagnosed, it is also very real, as I've experienced it firsthand on occasional intervals throughout my life.

That being said, lately I've privately suspected I might be type II bipolar. My life experiences and mood fluctuations seem comparable with the symptoms.

I never said it wasn't real. I've hit that roadblock a bunch over the last few months.

But yeah, I've heard that people with Aspergers (genuine or otherwise) tend to hit online forums pretty often. It helps break the barrier a little because you don't have to worry about body language, or tone of voice, or meeting anybody's eyes. It's a great way to form social links that you wouldn't otherwise be able to accomplish.

(Fuck eye contact, seriously. I don't know or care how neurotypical I am, I just hate looking into peoples' eyes. Some people are creepy-dedicated too, you know? They just stare. Like a painting.)

[Azisien]

Welcome to NPF!

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by russianreversal

One of many symptoms of it is a not at all subtle lack of empathy, which I can safely say Blues does not demonstrate.

Wrong again, as people have said.

He occasionally has trouble understanding the sides of others, but he puts a sincere amount of effort into this community.

Whereas that is pretty spot on.


As for OCD, as someone who is possibly probably a fringe case for it (Like, there are a lot of ticks that I do in day to day life to keep everything feeling "right", some of which are compulsions bad enough that I literally can't not do them. Never been diagnosed though, nor really saw a reason, unless they start controlling my life), I don't really take all too much offense at the "Oh, OCD" things, so much as I do at the people who go, "YOU CAN'T SAY OCD." Since those other people are trigger happy with it, to jump to the defense of this group of other people who should totally be offended.

In case you're wondering, the compulsions are minor things, ranging from hitting capslock in multiples of four while I'm thinking (Like, while typing up this post, between words, I've hit capslock probably around 100-200 times. Thinking about it isn't helping, as that sentence had me hitting it like 20 times. XD), to always making sure to make set of four bracket points, shaped like a bracket, if I brush my hand against something (IE: Right hand brushes something, then I have to brush my left hand twice, then right hand, then left right right left, left right right left, right left left right) and stuff like that.

But honestly, the "YOU CAN'T SAY OCD" things can be worse than the people saying OCD all the time, since I've been yelled at by someone going, "DON'T SAY OCD YADDA YADDA" when I was saying in response to someone else that I probably did have it. Then when I explained, a hasty apology was given, but it still felt crappy, and you shouldn't have to argue and prove your point. I honestly don't really notice the random ticks/compulsions that much, since it's something that I do by habit now, but I sometimes get some weird looks. It was worse when I had a weird one where occasionally I'd just decide, "Yeah, need to stretch my face", or something, and just randomly move like every muscle on my face. And if I didn't, I was fixated on how much I wanted to, and how much better I'd feel if I just did already, instead of anything else. And then I'd just do it anyways. :P

And I really don't think that, if I do have OCD for reals as opposed to just a handful of compulsions that aren't enough to be called OCD, I have it anything more than mildly to moderately. It's not life shattering, just occasionally gets me some odd looks when I can, and some discomfort when I -can't- do my ticks. People definitely have it worse than I, where it takes over their life.

And I'm honestly surprised that my capslock key is functional still. I seriously hit it like 200ish times during this post, at bare minimum. And that's par for the course. XD

[Aldurin]

This changes nothing.

But seriously, that's how it is for me. I never would have guessed you have it, it doesn't really explain anything in your forum behavior and honestly the fact that you're not asking for absolute pity and/or the forum equivalent of the handicapped parking space shows that you don't make that much of a big deal either.

It's like the whole thing about how it changed nothing when I found out Token was black. I just honestly don't give a shit unless people start demanding some kind of stupid entitlement.

Now back to foruming.