Any Aspie artists out there? Do you know of any? Are you one

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Ana54
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20 Jan 2008, 6:10 pm

Eire wrote:
I was arrested a few days after the president announced we were at war with Iraq. I was about 15 and huge protests were going on in San Francisco. I was walking along the sidewalk downtown and there were a few hundred people in the street demonstrating. Before I knew it cops in riot gear had blocked off both ends of the street and announced that everyone was going to be arrested. I wasn't a part of the protest and neither were some other people who just happened to be in the area, but we were all arrested anyways. I was handcuffed and put in a paddywagon with other minors and taken to a police station. One police officer told a 13 year old girl that she was going to be taken from her parents and put into foster care. She got really upset and then the officer said "just kidding!". Honestly, I think the main thing on my mind at the time was how bad I had to pee. When we got to the police station I learned that I couldn't use the bathroom without an officer accompanying me. I have a phobia about using public restrooms with other people in them so I had to hold it. The officers passed out bags of teddy grahams and when some kids said they weren't hungry, the officers yelled at them. When my Dad came to pick me up after a few hours at the station, a police officer told him I was told to clear the street and that I refused which was why I was arrested. Considering I don't intentionally join large crowds and at the time had no real opinions on the war, that officer was full of it. :x

Anyways, I had to go to court and the judge believed me so I got off without a fine or community service which is what most people got. It wasn't jail, but it's funny to think that I was arrested at 15. Just another reason I don't like living in a big city. Arrested for walking down a street.



Aridarr wrote:
I was arrested and charged for carrying a serrated kitchen knife, but I was only kept in a cell for a few hours after they picked me up. They took me home afterwards, too. I think they hoped that my parents would be angry with me; but they just said "Oh, okay." They are used to my weird adventures.

I collect knives, now. :twisted:



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Yes, twice have I visited the gray-bar hotel. Very poor lodgings, can't recommend it. This happened almost thirty years ago. I had a GF who, looking back on her behaviour, was probably bi-polar. I was working as a cleaner for a department store, which got broken into. The policeman who saw the intruder through the front glass door said he had a beard, and was walking around like he knew the place. I had a beard, but was quite drunk that night. Nonetheless, the police wanted to talk to to me, so I told them to F*** off. They got a warrant to arrest me, but never served it. A few months later my idiotic alcoholic GF goes beserk in a pub. Police show up, take her to facility for loonies, and arrest me. I spent that night in the worst pisshole you can bloody imagine. Underground, ages old, packed to standing room only with drunken, angry scum-of-the-earth. I had to use the toliet, and started shuffling towards it when some dark skinned chap decided to vomit all over it, quite profusely. I held it until I was released the next morning. Couldn't sleep, couldn't even lay down. The drunks used all the wall to lean against and pass out. No water, no food, just more louts being shoved into the cell. I had visions of being in the black hole of Calcutta...



Ana54 wrote:
I've never been to a mental ward. But my father has. He went to see his friend. He said the guys there sat in a room watching TV, a lot of them doped up, and they would all be excited, saying hi, asking "How's it going?", excited that something out of the ordinary was happening in their incredibly boring lives... even if it was just one visitor. He felt sorry for them.



Smelena wrote:
I worked in a psychiatric hospital for a few months as a physiotherapist and I loved it.

I used to treat musculo-skeletal injuries and prescribe exercise programs. I would also educate people with addictions to pain-killing medication about the nature of chronic pain.

I enjoyed it because everyone was so open and would share their stories.

I found the patients were just ordinary people with an illness. Some had had terrible things happen to them.

Currently I work with people with chronic lung diseases, but if the opportunity came up I would work in a psychiatric hospital again.

Helen



username88 wrote:
Ive sorta been in one. My older sister went when she tried to commit suicide, and on one of my visits I got like halfway inside. The rest we couldnt go through but the doors from that point on were locked anyway.



ShadesOfMe wrote:
Nope. only ever been committed. worst ever situation of my life. extremely traumatic.



Slink wrote:
I checked myself into a Charter Palms after a horrible acid trip. This was in Austin. I was there almost three days and didn't get any sleep. The doctor who saw me in the morning on the second day had a thick Jamaican accent and I was having a hard time understanding him. I agreed to a prescription of Remeron and was diagnosed with anxieties, addiction, guilt, alot of stuff. Most of the time they had me sequestered in a small room (cell) with a bed and an empty clothes drawer. No mirror, no window. The few minutes of freedom I had were spent chain-smoking in an empty atrium with windows on all sides and a camera to monitor me.

On the morning of the third day, in the cafeteria, after I got my tray of OJ and Jello and eggs, I saw the janitors wheeling a giant metal trolley out a side door which screeched a horrible alarm if left open too long. They came in and out. I left my tray and just followed them out. Just like that! I guess no one saw me leave. I was free. I spent a nerve-wracking hour in front of the facility hiding near the horrendously smelling trash bins, waiting for the bus to finally arrive. I was tired and hungry and crashing from a trip, and I swear the bus ride home was worse than my acid hallucinations. I spent a lifetime on that bus. At one stop a kid in a wheelchair had to be carefully brought aboard, which took 30 minutes. At another stop the dapperest damned old black man in a crisp, pressed suit and tie got on, and I swear I thought he was the devil. I almost screamed. I wanted to jump off the bus into traffic. When I got home my friend Joel called me and said everyone thought I had killed myself after I freaked out and ran from the party, then no one heard from me in days.

Anyway, he had an extra ticket to see Beck in concert, so I took my meds and downers and saw an awesome show in the most altered, stoned, exhausted state I've ever been in. Beck did the robot on "The New Pollution." He even sang "Satan Gave Me a Taco" after protesting "Homie don't play that!"

And that's my story of how I busted out of the nuthouse to see Beck.



lucy1 wrote:
I have worked in one during my nursing training. It was an eye opener. Some of the nurses were nice - but others had a real "us and them' attitude. They were so inappropriate - they were judgemental. Really they had no idea. Very sad and disappointing.
Most often life experience is the best teacher.

I liked the patients - nice people.



Smelena wrote:
Slink, what a great story - I love it!

I remember one day when I was at work at the psychiatric hospital, one of the patients had escaped.

The psychiatrist was extraordinarily stressed - the most stressed I think I've ever seen anyone - including the patients in the pscyh hospital.

I remember thinking - hmmm - he's a shrink - surely he shouldn't get so stressed!

Helen



BeyondInfinity wrote:
I have only been in a psyche ward when committed. It was awesome. They keep crazy people there. :D They booted me out early because I was a threat to their "system". If you ever dose again Slink just remember that acid is highly based on suggestion, if you think you're freaking out you will. Thats why the good ole' CI of A thought they could use it for mind control...



batista90 wrote:
i have been there in observation they restained me in bed coz i got melddown and trowed a book rigth over mental worker in there i was rest off that time tied up in bed :( i was there about 1 month then they foundet out that im aspie :roll:



QuantumCowboy wrote:
I have been as a visitor. From what I have seen, the patients are fed medications until they can no longer act out, and live in a semi-zombied state. The patients are further treated like children, with any questioning like "why am I here" or "when may I talk to someone" resulting in further medication.

I have talked to people who have been on the staff at these facilities, and the stories I have heard disgust me. The staff often take advantage of their patients. They are the perfect victims. They have no voice, and their allegations may be discounted, because they are "crazy".

It is really rather frightening, considering how easy it is to have someone temporarally commited. After the right regimin of medication, anyone would display "crazy" symptoms justifying further stay. 8O







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20 Jan 2008, 6:33 pm

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So, after 4 months I'm soon getting out of mental hospital.
I don't know what to think about it, actually. I'm so used to the routines of the hospital, the other patients that come and go and the personnel and everything..... It's gonna be SO weird to live like any normal person with my mom and going to school and spending time with friends....

Just because I've had the diagnosis Aspergers' Syndrome and because I've confessed I was sexually abused I'm supposed to be alot less depressed and not suicidal at all anymore...
But it's not like that. I don't feel overwelmed by happyness and motivation at all. But I'm gonna lie to the doctors cause I do want to get out of mental hospital wheter it might just kill me or not, outside atleast I can cut myself whenever I want to and get drunk sometimes.
Also I'm alittle curious about my new school that I'm going to. But that's it.

I feel really hopeless. Now I know for sure I'll always suck at socializing and I problably will never even get a work.
I'll be very alone very much for the rest of my life, no matter how hard I try that's the case. People will always misunderstand me and get pissed at me, it's just my fate.
Thinking about the future, I can't see myself alive or doing anything at all actually. Neighter can my friends, perhaps it's cause I'm not supposed to have a future?

I seriously can't stop cutting, and I am 100% sure I'll start drinking as fast as I get out of hospital again. I can't see why I should stop cutting, my arms are already totally f**** up and so am I so why bother......
And the drinking, it's not THAT very dangerous and I don't drink very much and not every day... Atleast before I didn't.


Conclusion
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I'm a mess, a hopeless one.


(no computers in mental hospital)
Nothingness wrote:
No they only have tv. But I'm having a free day since I havn't tried to kill myself for a couple of days now.
Heh okay.... Yeah who knows.... :?:



Yoshie777 wrote:
I can't imagine how devastating it is to have both Asperger Syndrome and be sexually abused. I greatly sympathize. My family wouldn't allow me to become depressed, so I don't have depression. I visited a mental hospital a few years ago. It's a secluded place in Orting, WA called Rainier School. I saw some mental patients who were in really bad shape. It was an experience of a lifetime. Now, I'm a psychology major and I plan to become a specialist in Autism.



kittenfluffies wrote:
It is so hard for an Aspie to be accustomed to hospital life, only to be released into the "real" world again. I went through it when I was younger, and didn't really want to be released. Sometimes I still wish I could go back to the hospital, but I have managed to make it and I sincerely hope you can too.



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20 Jan 2008, 7:29 pm

I'm an artist of music.



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21 Jan 2008, 4:40 am

TrueDave: I can be all three, but I'm not so good with drawing so just put me as a back-up.

Ana - Would they mind us drawing/retelling their stories? I mean, we might not get them spot on and some people (like me) are a bit iffy on that.



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21 Jan 2008, 2:19 pm

I wonder if I should stsrt snother thread asking that or just bump the one called "Let's write a book" or PM all of them.



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21 Jan 2008, 3:55 pm

I agree, we should ask thier permission.