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30 Jan 2013, 4:58 pm

Thank you Mr Pony person! I had no idea what 2E was.



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30 Jan 2013, 5:22 pm

Thank you very much for this. :D

I just wanted to add:

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BPD Borderline Personality Disorder, one of the four Class B personality disorders. For some reason this keeps coming up here, and it seems fundamentally different than the other Class B PDs. This is not to be confused with Bipolar Disorder, which I guess is BD, but it isn't brought up nearly as much.


Actually I've also already seen Bipolar disorder as BPD, but usually, how you guessed it is just BD. Propably mainly because that it's not switched with Borderline PD.

I just know that also:
TS - Tourette's Syndrome or Transsexualism. But also GTS can used as a short form for Tourette's Syndrome, because its entire name is Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.

StPD - Schizotypal Personality Disorder
SPD - Schizoid Personality Disorder
PPD - Paranoid Personality Disorder
AvPD - Avoidant Personality Disorder
OPD - Obsessive compulsive Personality Disorder also OCPD
OCD - Obsessive–compulsive disorder


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30 Jan 2013, 5:50 pm

Ganondox wrote:

Q: Are autistic people sociopaths?
A: There is absolutely no connection between ASPD and Autism, and many autistic traits are the opposite of many psychopathic traits. The only link is that the English translation of Asperger's term for the syndrome which now bares his name was "Autistic Sociopathy", but here the term is being taken completely out of context, and calling Aspies sociopaths is like calling grapefruits grapes.


Wait.

They're not the same thing?


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30 Jan 2013, 6:54 pm

No, they're not.

Grapefruit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citru ... ite_bg.jpg
Grapes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table ... _white.jpg


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14 Feb 2013, 1:59 pm

The question about psychosis and autism being different I don't agree with, being a psychotic aspie myself.


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30 Oct 2013, 7:27 am

Ganondox wrote:
Q: Do all aspies have tics such as hand-flapping, etc?
A: While most aspies have stereotypies and it is a diagnosis criterion, it is not a strict requirement, so I assume not all aspies have tics. It also manifests differently in every person and can be anything biting the inside of ones lip and pacing to flapping hands and head-banging.


I would argue that hand flapping and head-banging are stims rather than tics. When I flap my hands or bang my head, it's to relieve being overstimulated. When I tic, there is no purpose behind it; I just do it. Everyone, not just autistic people, have stims or tics. The Aspies that I know have stims, but only a few have tics.


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30 Oct 2013, 10:30 am

BeggingTurtle wrote:
Ganondox wrote:
Q: Do all aspies have tics such as hand-flapping, etc?
A: While most aspies have stereotypies and it is a diagnosis criterion, it is not a strict requirement, so I assume not all aspies have tics. It also manifests differently in every person and can be anything biting the inside of ones lip and pacing to flapping hands and head-banging.


I would argue that hand flapping and head-banging are stims rather than tics. When I flap my hands or bang my head, it's to relieve being overstimulated. When I tic, there is no purpose behind it; I just do it. Everyone, not just autistic people, have stims or tics. The Aspies that I know have stims, but only a few have tics.


Well a layperson would probably call a stim a tick, and I can't edit it now to say "stims or tics".


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27 Nov 2014, 1:17 am

Thanks for the read Ganondox, but I think you should edit your signature. It says "http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt186115.htm", so nobody can get to this page unless they add a lowercase-L to the end of the URL address.



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27 Nov 2014, 8:49 pm

LonelyJar wrote:
Thanks for the read Ganondox, but I think you should edit your signature. It says "http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt186115.htm", so nobody can get to this page unless they add a lowercase-L to the end of the URL address.


Thanks for the information, will fix. Not necessarily sure if I want people to go to this, I wrote this so long ago, haha.


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