Ah-ha! I can stop trying to be normal!

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Because I'm not! Hi, My name's Pj and I've always been a bit of a wingnut. I had the great misfortune of going to school in the eighties and nineties when the solution to any off child was to pump them full of drugs until they slowed to the same speed as the other kids of just plain zombied out. I've been diagnosed with lots 'o' conditions over the years, ADHD, ODD, OCD, Bi-polar, and some I'm just now learning about. I had a discussion with my mom the other night and managed to pry some more diagnosis out of her. The wine I was drinking at the time makes the memory a bit fuzzy, but apparently I was also diagnosed with the inability to interpret body language. I can kinda do so now, I just choose to ignore it All my life I've been in "program" after program to no avail. Shorty after I got kicked out of highschool I started hitch hiking around the US for the hell of it. Out in that world of weirdos I found people like me and others still who showed me there's nothing wrong with me at all, it's nuerotypical people who are ruining the world! Anyway, here I am, nice to meet y'all.

Hello Normal is over-rated anyway.....

Hello there. I loved the title of your post. I was diagnosed as an adult and feel exactly the same way!

Welcome to WP.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

For me I imagine the medication would have been an attempt to speed me up because I was too 'slow'...I never did end up getting medicated as a child though.

I haven't been diagnosed aspie, but if it walks and quacks.... My aspie friends think I am and I have an aspie professor that thinks I am as well. I wish they had known when I was a kid, would have made things a lot easier knowing. I was on just about every med there was around when I was young, they started me at seven on Ritalin and went apeshit from there. Dizipramine, effexor, propranolol, adderall, prozac and even more I can't remember off the top of my head. By the time I was fourteen they were cross medicating me so much that I went into anaphylactic shock and my heart went kaput. Spent two weeks in the hospital having repeat episodes and going through med withdrawal all at once. Fun times. At least I learned how to balance a wheel chair on two wheels and spin in place. Lucky for me I was only a few months away from age of consent, so I just refused meds until I could tell em where to stick it. I wish I would have known at the time so I could have told them quit trying to fix me, I'm not broken! blargh. Anyway, glad I finally started up an account here.

Okay, got that missing piece. The condition on the end of my tong was Dyssemia. Turns out it's not that I can't read my girlfriend's mind, I can't read her face! It would also explain my extremely loud laugh and tendency to get right up in people's personal space without realizing it. I've had people I haven't seen in over five years hear my laugh from a few blocks away and seek me out. Apparently it's loud and "unique"

Welcome.

Forgot to say, thanks for the welcomes everyone!

Anytime. ^-^

I might also mention that there's a lot of Oregonian Aspies on here. :3

hey welcome to the forum I know what it is like to not feel normal it is all around me with a crazy brother with adhd to a sister who thinks she knows what she is talking about I know the very thing about not being normal.

Hi everyone.
My opinion is: "Normal" isn´t just overrated. When you´re "normal", you´re like all the others around you, just a grey spot in the grey mass: Boring, replaceable, impossible to identify.
Terrible things like war, environmental destruction, robbery or racism are "normal" because they always happened in the history of mankind and they probably even happen
every day. "Normal" does NOT automatically mean "good"!
It´s our differences to all the others which make us unique, loveable individuals. We couldn´t be loved for being like millions of other people ("normal").
The world needs people like us who are a bit "crazy" and think differently!

Welkome to WP

Mick

Hi there,
I stopped trying to be "normal" when I was ~21, and have been so much happier since then. It is such a headache trying to be like everyone else to no avail. It wasn't even worth it, girls were still bi*ches to me and I was miserable. Normal is nonexistent & arbitrary bc we are all different ~ even the normal ones are stupid sometimes.

Glad to c u on The WP!

Hi and Welcome to Wrong Planet