@markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @hosford42 @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
Ah, that just negated my self-suspicion!
Love spicy foods ( I put habanero hot sauce in my cofee)
Zero ear for pitch
Don't mind distracting chatter or bright light
But here's the thing. I KNOW I'm not "typical," But nobody is. I have many characteristics I see mentioned here. Don't have others. Is that not what "divergent" is?
This is why I don't identify as is/is not autistic.
@dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity You don't have to have any of those specific things to be autistic. There are many different forms of autism, and they can look *very* different from each other. Each kind of blends into its direct neighbors, but it doesn't take long going from neighbor to neighbor to get to something that is very different from where you started. The biggest thing that connects us is that we don't think like "normal" people; we are out at the ends of the bell curve, whatever dimension you happen to be measuring us by.
@hosford42 @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
>There are many different forms of autism
I'm going to be down this rabbit whole for an incredibly long time, aren't I?
@hellomiakoda @hosford42 @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
Yea! It's fascinating. For instance, I've learned that I am very definitively within the PDA profile of autism, which the priority of affects things (for me, like time awareness and aspects of social aptitude) in a way that is atypical of many autistic presentations.
Simply, humans are so very very diverse. I tend to note my patterns, check to see whether they are just habits, and keep an eye out for signs of those out in the greater world. Slowly, I find persons who reflect me in some ways and contrast in others and these encounters often hone my own self-perception, utility, and curation of hills to die on.
So fascinated by
- the things that humans have in common across cultures and time
- the particular qualia that result in the sum of an individual
- those aspects, traits, and archetypes that, like patchwork, allow us to resonate with each other in deeply personal ways
@anomalon @hellomiakoda @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity We don't have PDA in common (mostly) but so much of the other parts of our outlook is similar, I think. I do get really angry and stubborn when people act like they have the right to boss me around or talk down to me due to higher social standing (as opposed to asking me to fulfill my egalitarian social obligations) but it doesn't happen very often anymore, maybe because I'm a superficially intimidating middle aged white guy, with all the privilege that comes with. When I was younger and skinnier it happened a lot more.
I'm wondering how much overlap there is between PDA and DSM's "Oppositional-Defiant Disorder", and how many people might have been misdiagnosed.
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@ScottSoCal @hosford42 @hellomiakoda @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
For about 25 years, before autism became a consideration to me, I was adamant that the underpinning description of ODD was flawed. I am allergic to hierarchy. I actually do like authority, as in, someone knowing all the ins and outs of what is going on and in a position to deliver information and guidance about it.
Anytime someone asserts authority, I am compelled to *ping* them for integrity. If they don't demonstrate that they actually ARE an authority, rather than thinking they HAVE authority (hierarchy), I can't pretend they do.
I'm actually pretty chill with people who genuinely know a thing better than I do (so long as they don't tell me to do something outside the context of my direct question/consent about it.)
@ScottSoCal @hosford42 @anomalon @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
That, ODD, was on my diag sheet as a child. To this day, I do not understand what it means.
I'm just picky about who's authority I will submit to.
I haven't looked through their whole site, but pdasociety.org.uk has some interesting materials that I found really resonant.
https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/What-is-PDA-booklet-website-v2.1.pdf
Especially interesting to me are the ways in which PDA is described that reflect issues from my childhood and adolescence that I developed very specific strategies or remediations for. I wouldn't have spontaneously imagined to narratively connect them.
@hellomiakoda @ScottSoCal @hosford42 @anomalon @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
ODD is a clinical indication that the diagnostician is an authoritarian with an obsession for controlling children.
@woozle @hellomiakoda @ScottSoCal @hosford42 @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
To be fair, I was a little shit to the psychiatrist. He stormed out of the room red-faced five minutes after meeting me.
He'd used that fake syrup voice, leaned toward me, and rested his cheek on his knuckles,the skin of his face folded into the huge crease that I'd noticed when he came in. I asked if he got that crease by pretending to care about people. He left. Voila diagnosis. #ODD
@anomalon @woozle @hellomiakoda @ScottSoCal @hosford42 @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity AIF Authoritarian Infuriating Syndrome
@ScottSoCal @anomalon @hellomiakoda @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity I thought they were different names for the same thing. But maybe they're just that confusingly similar, IDK.
@ScottSoCal @hosford42 @hellomiakoda @dbc3 @markusl @cwebber @ginsterbusch @dpnash @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
*Raises hand* ODD diagnosis 1992