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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: substandard medical care due to diagnosis |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 16 Sep 2008, 11:03 pm
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| There's a pretty easy solution: don't tell them you're autistic. that doesn't necessarily help when a) they ask about medications and they ask what they're for b) i didn't necessarily mean because you TOLD them about your diagnosis-it could just as easily be due to communication breakdown due to th... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Open Letter to Sarah Palin |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2008, 9:03 pm
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| can't trust someone who lies from the very beginning. she did NOT say no to the "bridge to nowhere"...she just backed off when the project became an albatross and made the state a laughingstock...and kept the $400 million. Alaska is #1 in per capita spending, so earmarks like crazy. so no, she's not... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: substandard medical care due to diagnosis |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 15 Sep 2008, 8:47 pm
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| Violet_Yoshi: hmmm...all i can suggest re: dentists is to negotiate before they ever start that they will tell you what they are doing every step of the way, and if they fail to do so, get up and walk out. or interrupt and remind them once, and then walk out? but they can't work with you asking to b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Would this drive you slightly crazy? |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2008, 10:21 pm
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Replies: 30
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| yeah...and on the city bus you can't close your eyes or zone out, you'll miss your stop-i have done this. but it's not as bad for me as someone sitting there oh, smacking their gum or something...with that, i have fantasies of bitch-slapping them :lol: and have been known to look like an idiot and p... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A lesson from house |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 14 Sep 2008, 10:10 pm
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| re: shortage of incomprehensible illnesses without insurance-they took a homeless woman. also, people HAVE died. the homeless woman for one-she had rabies, which is fatal. there was also an episode-i'll be vague, so i won't "spoil"-where a mistake in delivery of medication by a team member caused mi... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: substandard medical care due to diagnosis |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2008, 11:45 pm
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Replies: 16
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| i was supposed to attach a poll...evidently, i did not. let me try again. grrrr... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: substandard medical care due to diagnosis |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2008, 11:42 pm
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| i'm not sure if this is the right forum...but since i'm trying to raise awareness of this issue, trying to see how big the problem IS, and searching for a solution, maybe it's at least a place to start. in 2005, a friend of mine-NT, but with a diagnosis of depression and alcoholism-had an appendecto... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anyone go deep-space on chantix? |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2008, 9:55 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Rainstorm5: be aware that i just noticed i somehow managed to take both day 2 and day 3 yesterday...guess i thought it was like a z-pack and it built? i'm therefore skipping today's dose...and feel much more normal, though i'm still skipping through reality like a flat stone across a lake, if that w... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anyone go deep-space on chantix? |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2008, 12:05 am
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| at least i think it's the chantix-either that or it's a mix of the chantix and going back on the cymbalta after being off it for so long and i'm on other stuff too, but the chantix is the only completely new thing. that would make sense, i mean. a blood pressure drug shouldn't do this, no? i'm not m... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: If I am mean.. |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2008, 1:57 am
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Replies: 17
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| i have had complex partial seizures...i do get irrationally angry during them sometimes, with NO conception that i'm being irrational. thank you to the few gods of whatever that seem to be on my side that mine come in "cycles" that seem to last no more than two or three days, and my heartfelt (truly... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: talking to doctors? |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2008, 1:43 am
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Replies: 22
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| Triangular_Trees: all i can say is "dear god in heaven how hideous" i've been accused of having "pseudoseizures" before...asked the doc what that was, thinking maybe he thought it was another medical condition that manifested as something resembling a seizure. nope. he said: "this." and proceeded to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: New Book About Autism Written From a Cat's Point of View! |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 10:08 pm
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Replies: 4
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i'm a turkey...your link led to amazon.com, should have checked the link before i posted but the concept itself grabbed me...and no wonder, cause there's a book on there called: "all cats have asperger's"!   so when i said i think more like a feline than a human person-i was right! |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: New Book About Autism Written From a Cat's Point of View! |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 9:59 pm
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| no! haven't read it, but i will track it down and drag it to my cave...thank you! i love cats, i'm writing a science fiction/fantasy thingamajig with a sentient feline species, i swear i think more like a cat than a human person anyway...thanks! i shall now zoom off to amazon.com, and see if it's th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS AN AUTISTIC PERSON, WERE YOU BORN PREMATURE? |
| echokynthei |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 9:53 pm
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Replies: 54
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| [quote="Callista"]In most cases, the baby hormonally determines when it will be born (in cases of multiples or too much amniotic fluid, that might not be the case, but usually it is). So it could be that the prematurity doesn't cause autism at all, but that autism causes prematurity. intri... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: AS AN AUTISTIC PERSON, WERE YOU BORN PREMATURE? |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 9:40 pm
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| i was two months early, but there may have been a twin...they had another heartbeat until four and a half months...but the doctor says it "could have been an echo". that might have been just to keep from freaking out my mother. i was a total accident, parents were using TWO kinds of birth control be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how NT sees Auties/Aspies? |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 1:06 am
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Replies: 30
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| a friend once told me: "you are all the time what other people get high to try to be." :lol: i actually thought that was sort of cool. i've also been told that talking to me was like talking to a child-the naivete, i finally figured out, after i got insulted too often by that and asked for an explan... |
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