THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Himu on October 22, 2007, 07:12:09 PM
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Does this thing really exist or is all just a ruse created by scientists to prescribe more medicine to unwilling patients who don't know better.
With all the people being diagnosed with this thing, you'd think it'd be an absolutely devastating thing. Has anyone ever actually met someone who has aspergers syndrome?
There's this chick I know from school who identifies with all the common symptoms. She doesn't get sarcasm at all. She always replies with an,"I see." to simple jokes no matter the person. She's obsessed with blaming her anti-social tendencies on the fact she was home schooled during High School. When talking to her she always looks away.
It seems that Aspergers is definitely real, but like ADD, it's just misdiagnosed. So, the real answer is that there's middle ground, and that a lot of these people being diagnosed with or think they have Aspergers (especially on the internets) really don't.
The recent something awful article's (http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/aspergers-zeph-mercurial.php) outlook on this subject got me interested in asking. What do the residents of Evilboria think?
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I think GAF is proof that it exists.
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I think GAF is proof that it exists.
If GAF is any proof of anything, they prove something awful right, and that Aspergers is really only just the "internet disease".
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another fake disease like aids
now excuse me while i go buy some $300 jeans
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Isn't Aspergers just ADD-lite?
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lol Evilboria doesn't exist. It's a made up country.
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i think i have it. one symptom i really identify with is the never looking someone in the eyes, it always makes me feel uncomfortable when i do.
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another fake disease like aids
now excuse me while i go buy some $300 jeans
And a $60 haircut.
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i think i have it. one symptom i really identify with is the never looking someone in the eyes, it always makes me feel uncomfortable when i do.
That can be attributed to insecurity, which is self is a symptom of not quite being a man.
You can't relate to one or two symptoms and think you have it.
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lol Evilboria doesn't exist. It's a made up country.
It's one of the lost nations of the world. NO ONE CAN FIND IT.
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pure bull in 95% of the cases
people who are seriously afflicted with it really do look weird, or have extremely odd behaviors that they're happy to be into
most doctors are incompetent twits basing themselves strictly on vague stereotypes who abuse of their status to put labels on youths who are too stupid to hold another opinion
most of the times when a diagnostic is handed out there are no standards at all for this, it's based purely on the doctor's whims
and even in the case of doctors specialized in the syndrome who are way more knowledgeable and serious about this, it's in their best interests to add as many cases as possible to their network... there's definitely tons of money at stake with this shit, and it's all shady as hell
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I think it's made up to make social tards feel like they're somehow special when really... they're just tards.
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I think Mondain has ass burgers.
see. Can't look into my Panda eyes
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lol Evilboria doesn't exist. It's a made up country.
It's one of the lost nations of the world. NO ONE CAN FIND IT.
I found it once.
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
lol Evilboria doesn't exist. It's a made up country.
It's one of the lost nations of the world. NO ONE CAN FIND IT.
I found it once.
Where is it?
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
And you didn't think that maybe it was incompetent bullshit to begin with?
That's what sucks with most people, their cynicism never runs deep, they always accept blindly what people of authority gives or tells them.
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
Was it a picture of AmNintenho and drinky making love anally?
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
And you didn't think that maybe it was incompetent bullshit to begin with?
That's what sucks with most people, their cynicism never runs deep, they always accept blindly what people of authority gives or tells them.
I did.
See, when I look at the picture it looks like my father is looking at me and his eyes follow. It freaks me out but I always shrug it off. I told the doc this and he's like,"Welp. Mild Schizophrenia, here's your bill lol"
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I can confirm that it does in fact exist. My nephew has it and has all of the symptoms and has been diagnosed by multiple professionals- doesn't like to look people in the eye, inability to take something non-literally (saying "man those cats are really killing each other" when the cats fight makes him run to his room and cry because he thinks that means the cats are going to be dead), really smart at book learning but socially distinguished mentally-challenged, completely incapable of seeing anything from another person's perspective.
However, I will admit that most of the kids getting diagnosed with it probably don't have it and their parents are just lazy dumbshits. My nephew, however, is actually fucked in the head. I don't like being around him because his condition results in exceedingly bratty behaviour but it's not really his fault- he can't act any other way. Avoidance is the best policy.
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
lol Evilboria doesn't exist. It's a made up country.
It's one of the lost nations of the world. NO ONE CAN FIND IT.
I found it once.
Where is it?
Inside a wardrobe back home.
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I really wouldn't want to go to Evilboria then. I'm not really into furries. I didn't imagine Evilboria would have furries and giant lions. =/
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
And you didn't think that maybe it was incompetent bullshit to begin with?
That's what sucks with most people, their cynicism never runs deep, they always accept blindly what people of authority gives or tells them.
I did.
See, when I look at the picture it looks like my father is looking at me and his eyes follow. It freaks me out but I always shrug it off. I told the doc this and he's like,"Welp. Mild Schizophrenia, here's your bill lol"
That's why you don't go see a doc or seek to enter an hospital unless it's pretty much necessary to survive or to live normally. You want to put your life in the hands of such clowns?
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Food for some thought: I was once diagnosed with mild Schizophrenia, and the only thing he used to create this diagnosis was the fact a picture back home freaks me the hell out.
And you didn't think that maybe it was incompetent bullshit to begin with?
That's what sucks with most people, their cynicism never runs deep, they always accept blindly what people of authority gives or tells them.
I did.
See, when I look at the picture it looks like my father is looking at me and his eyes follow. It freaks me out but I always shrug it off. I told the doc this and he's like,"Welp. Mild Schizophrenia, here's your bill lol"
That's why you don't go see a doc or seek to enter an hospital unless it's pretty much necessary to survive or to live normally. You want to put your life in the hands of such clowns?
No, but I did have a mental breakdown, so I went to see them.
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I've self-diagnosed one of my suitemates with this, I think it's real.
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I miss the days when everyone kept their real or imagined afflictions to themselves.
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most doctors are incompetent twits basing themselves strictly on vague stereotypes
Oh the irony.
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I miss the days when everyone kept their real or imagined afflictions to themselves.
QFT.
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I knew a kid who had Asperger's. It's like a talking Autistic. He was completely aware of the world around him, but he was way more tuned into what was going on in his head. We were just a side show.
He spent an entire semester as a cat, wore snowboots year round, was investigated by the FBI, and built a taser from a disposable camera. He just didn't understand what it was like to be a person in the way most people understand the common bonds of human-hood.
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Autism definitely exists. I don't think it's much of a stretch to believe there are varying cases of it, with Asperger's being on the lower end of the spectrum.
Edit: Just read the SA article, gotta love bullying nerds making fun of other nerds.
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I knew a kid who had Asperger's. It's like a talking Autistic. He was completely aware of the world around him, but he was way more tuned into what was going on in his head. We were just a side show.
He spent an entire semester as a cat, wore snowboots year round, was investigated by the FBI, and built a taser from a disposable camera. He just didn't understand what it was like to be a person in the way most people understand the common bonds of human-hood.
Wow. I would have tried to befriend him in an instant. How did he spend en entire semester as a cat by the way?
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i think i have it. one symptom i really identify with is the never looking someone in the eyes, it always makes me feel uncomfortable when i do.
I believe this.
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Some of the "symptoms" are so random and common that I really can't take the thing seriously. You can't look people in the eyes? Maybe you don't have a father figure, blame your mother
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Some of the "symptoms" are so random and common that I really can't take the thing seriously. You can't look people in the eyes? Maybe you don't have a father figure, blame your mother
You can't look people in the eyes either, PeeDee. That's why all the pictures you've posted of yourself have you looking down. Asperger's total.
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You're right :-\
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I'm handicapped afterall :/
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Ruzbeh, PeeDee, Napoleonthechimp and Synbios - The Asperger's Club. :o
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Asperger's is real. It's just extremely over diagnosed at the moment.
It's the Soccer Mom Diagnosis of the 00's, much like ADD was the Soccer Mom Diagnosis of the 90's.
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I like how something awful makes it cool to pick on minorities like people with aspergers. seems very similar to something like christian fundamentalists bashing gays and claiming homosexuality is a choice
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I like how something awful makes it cool to pick on minorities like people with aspergers. seems very similar to something like christian fundamentalists bashing gays and claiming homosexuality is a choice
:lol
You're joking, right?
:o
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When will you realize that assburger is not a choice! We need to make it egal for assburgers to get maried!
Also I think junpei is a closet assburger.
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the article takes a single, pathetic individual and uses her as evidence that asperger's is a joke disease.
if they instead used one pathetic, gaudy, gay dude with a livejournal, and made fun of him and his orientation, there would be some level of outrage since the gay community is larger and more vocal.
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Eh, that comparison doesn't work...
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Isn't Aspergers just ADD-lite?
It's Autism-lite.
Autism definitely exists. I don't think it's much of a stretch to believe there are varying cases of it, with Asperger's being on the lower end of the spectrum.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Asperger's is real. It's just extremely over diagnosed at the moment.
It's the Soccer Mom Diagnosis of the 00's, much like ADD was the Soccer Mom Diagnosis of the 90's.
Good point. ADHD was and still is overdiagnosed, but that doesn't make it any less real. Same thing with Asperger's. Hell, there's a growing trend toward the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, which is a very serious and scary thing.
James's cousin has some kind of autistic spectrum disorder. I'm not sure if he has Asperger's or autism, though I suspect it's Asperger's as he communicates well and doesn't really do the 'rocking' things to calm himself. He has a hell of a temper, though.
There's a book called "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" that I believe Ichirou has also read. It's technically fictional but it's very realistic, written through the eyes of an autistic teenager. It's a short book and an easy read and I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone. You can probably buy it on Amazon for $.01!
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an AMAZING book. It's a detective story through the eyes of an autistic teenager who is a maths wizard. It gives a good idea how truly differently real autistic people see the world (real: as in, not Ruzbeh and Synbios).
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an AMAZING book. It's a detective story through the eyes of an autistic teenager who is a maths wizard. It gives a good idea how truly differently real autistic people see the world (real: as in, not Ruzbeh and Synbios).
I thought it was you! I loved that book so much. Some of the parts even amazed me to think about, like how when he was bored he'd multiply tons of numbers in his head and stuff. I also loved how the chapters don't go in order of natural numbers, but in order of PRIME numbers.
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And there are mathematical puzzles at the end of the book...but I didn't bother trying to solve them. I suck at math.
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Hah I don't think I did, either.
I wish now that I still had my copy!
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They're probably too tough for n00bs like you and me.
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Haha I bet they are.
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Some of the parts even amazed me to think about, like how when he was bored he'd multiply tons of numbers in his head and stuff.
I used to take cube roots in my head. I could do them to four decimal places at one point
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do you have hot meat between your buns? does it taste good?