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Dr. Eddies Wingman said:
Some people are just excellent at rubbing salt in the wounds. Yesterday I witnessed the football team I follow in Norway as they suffered the worst defeat after WW2. This morning at 6AM, a guy who worked at our department before sent me a text message with a link to a news story about the game, and the question "Were you there" ... Wanker.

To make things worse, I woke up with the tinnitus turned up to 11, so I wasn't able to fall asleep again, and laid there awake for another hour before I got up at 7 (as I usually do).
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That's a clean casus belli.
 
So after a lengthy chat with my psychiatrist today, I've been told that my way of thinking, perspective analysis and problem solving, among other things, is rather unique when compared to ordinary people. Therefore, I've been informed that I will have to take a test that is commonly used to pick up autistic spectrum disorders in people, a suspicion I often entertained when I was younger, but always assumed it was lack of self-confidence.

Because of how people perceive autism, as well as the various extremes of it, part of me is concerned that I may be diagnosed with a disorder, though I refuse to use it as a label. On the other hand, it would explain a lot on how I've lived my life so far, how I interact with people and how I can further improve myself. It will definitely be interesting to see where exactly I fit into the spectrum and whether or not I qualify to be labelled with any kind of disorder.
 
Zare said:
That's a clean casus belli.
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The term casus belli fucked me over in one our exams this past term. We were expected to give equivalents to some political and military terms. I didn't know the English version of one of the Turkish terms, so I looked at the paper of the girl in front of me. She had written "casus belli" as the answer, but I was completely mindfucked so I left it blank anyway.

Because "casus" means "spy" in Turkish, and "belli" means "is evident". So "casus belli" literally translates as "the spy is evident". I never crossed my mind that it'd be a Latin-origin word that meant cause of war.
 
RTC said:
So after a lengthy chat with my psychiatrist today, I've been told that my way of thinking, perspective analysis and problem solving, among other things, is rather unique when compared to ordinary people. Therefore, I've been informed that I will have to take a test that is commonly used to pick up autistic spectrum disorders in people, a suspicion I often entertained when I was younger, but always assumed it was lack of self-confidence.

Because of how people perceive autism, as well as the various extremes of it, part of me is concerned that I may be diagnosed with a disorder, though I refuse to use it as a label. On the other hand, it would explain a lot on how I've lived my life so far, how I interact with people and how I can further improve myself. It will definitely be interesting to see where exactly I fit into the spectrum and whether or not I qualify to be labelled with any kind of disorder.
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Hopefully they'll refer you to specialist assessors and not a non-specialist psychiatrist with a lite checklist. People not diagnosed as children, especially women, are often initially overlooked because they've unconsciously learnt to 'pass' for neurotypical. The result can be people being told their traits are all down to depression, bipolar or personality disorder, and given counselling or medication that's not appropriate/useless. Some assessment questions and exercises are designed to highlight evidence of prominent autistic traits in children, that adults might not show. Above all, answer questions from the heart, not according to what you know is socially expected.

And a lot of autistic people don't consider it a disorder or disability. ;)
 
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For me personally, I feel as if I don't quite qualify to be registered as having Aspergers or high-functioning autism, which are often considered the most mild of what are known as autistic disorders. Seeing as everyone is on the autism spectrum to an extent, I imagine I'd be above the average threshold, but not enough to qualify as having a disorder.

When I was younger, I often hypothesised having an autistic disorder, although that was primarily due to my insecurity, anxiety and depression more than anything else. Those thoughts went away when I gained more self-confidence in myself. But my parents never let me act upon it despite asking several times for a screening of sorts. My mum told me today it was because she was so scared, particularly given my second-eldest sister (I have three elder sisters) has been very ill with body dysmorphia, anorexia and borderline personality disorder.
 
I can understand why parents would worry. They don't want a son or daughter to be labelled and stigmatised, potentially have their career prospects harmed (although note that the DDA is very relevant these days), or be subjected to unnecessary ongoing intervention by mental health services. It's unusual for assessments to diagnose autism mistakenly, though. I know a couple of people who have very prominent traits, but struggled to even get an assessment at all because they didn't fit the stereotype - eg they made eye contact, felt empathy, had boyfriends, were studying at university etc. They have to be very convinced they see traits in you to make that diagnosis.

RTC said:
For me personally, I feel as if I don't quite qualify to be registered as having Aspergers or high-functioning autism, which are often considered the most mild of what are known as autistic disorders. Seeing as everyone is on the autism spectrum to an extent, I imagine I'd be above the average threshold, but not enough to qualify as having a disorder.
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"We're all on the spectrum" is a common figure of speech, but not quite accurate, because the spectrum is a way of looking at the condition itself within diagnosable boundaries, it's not a sliding scale of able to disabled. The spectrum refers to there being near-infinite variation among the autistic population in terms of presence or lack of the numerous recognised traits in any individual, and the intensity of the traits they possess. A high-functioning person with Aspergers might nevertheless have severe sensory processing issues that affect them profoundly - or a person with classic presentation autism could have no sensory processing issues at all.

But good luck with the assessment and I hope it helps you find some answers.
 
Brigantium said:
Copy and paste so-called news is really starting to bug me. There'll be a small kernel of truth in something, and someone with an axe to grind will make a big overexaggerated thing out of it on a blog or alternative news site. It then gets picked up and copied wholesale by other alternative news sites, commented on by political bloggers, and jumped on as proof by organisations which also have an axe to grind. Plus the likes of the Daily Mail repeat it and embroider it. Then it spreads on social media and becomes fact. It must be fact because Underground Facts Today and five other similar websites have published it. But when more mainstream and more reputable media outlets don't regurgitate it in a similar fashion, people claim it's because they have an agenda.
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I could elaborate on that. *cough cough Race wars. Martial law. cough cough* But I won't. :P
 
I don't think I've shared this bit of news yet, but forgive me if it's a repeat.

It's funny, I don't feel old. I joined this forum when I took my middle school aged son (thanks for the reminder Loosey) to his first Maiden concert, and since then he is about ready to graduate college while his sister, my middle child got married and moved 7 hours away.

Not long ago she came home to surprise me to let me I'm gonna be a grandpa. How cool is that?!? Grandpa Wasted!

My grand kid is gonna have the most metal grandpa....

I still don't feel old. :)
 
I think I lost my uni index. I can't find it anywhere and don't remember the last time I've seen it or used it. It's not that big of a loss because all our grades are in a database anyway and it won't cost anything to replace; its use is really just for us to have something to show at home... which I obviously planned on doing once I graduate but the new one will look pretty empty :/
 
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