A question for the self diagnosed

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I just know out of all of WP, you pretty much seem to stand alone in this type of routine.



You keep saying how honest and transparent you are.

So tell me honestly how many threads you have started about this.

And how many of those threads have been locked?

Last edited by EzraS on 30 Jul 2018, 8:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.

bumping for attention. I think it's a valid point, and nobody commented on it, so . . . .

Here's a thing with bringing up excellent points with goldfish. They've already all been brought up before over the last 5 years. Over and over again. So goldfish has had plenty of practice on how to argue them. My guess is he spends a lot of time rehearsing what he's going to say. That's why I stopped going into specifics that have already been covered.

Well, YOU'RE no fun, Ezra!

I'm bored and you're harshing my mellow.

I’ve been over this countless times as to why I did not seek a professional diagnosis.

EzraS suggested I change my approach a few months back, so, I did. I offered to spend my time and money proving any of this he’d like proven - official diagnosis, lab tests, observations before/after antibiotics/probiotics, Hell an fMRI of my brain.. but, he doesn’t want proof that what I share here is true, he simply wants to argue that it is not.

The only thing I might get from an official diagnosis is a big fat tax return for being able to back claim disability tax credits. Otherwise a diagnosis on paper changes my life exactly Zero. As others have pointed out: official diagnosis = access to taxpayer funded services/housing/job placement/counselling etc/whatever, all things I don’t require because thanks to what I do to minimize the impact of AS symptoms on my life, I’m able to work and play pretty well and will survive just fine without taxpayer supports.

Exactly. An actual scientist would want things fully established by other experts. He would want a doctor to corroborate his self-diagnosis. It's something he would've/should've done years ago.

There are a lot of plot holes in his methods from a scientific standpoint. No journal kept. No being tested on a routine basis. Not getting any kind of degree in the field. Lots of things.

Further to that, as I’ve said before: If I were to walk into some psychiatrists office at my highest functioning I may be told “Well, you have traits, but they don’t impede your life as you work, play, have a social life, have a sex life etc etc and don’t qualify for a diagnosis.” But if I were to down a bottle of doxycycline over a few weeks & eat garbage food, I could lower my functioning level to the point where I’d get a “Whoa, you’re HFA af.. how did you even live his long?” Lol

Truly, if I were to ever get an official diagnosis, I’d need to find a doctor that can comprehend what I tell them about my ability to raise & lower my functioning level dramatically via these methods who’s willing to observe me in both/various states.

So you're saying the whole thing is somehow hinges on me, and that's not supposed to sound the least bit bananas.

Looky here folks, according to him I'm in control of goldfish's decision making. He goes on about how I'm just a boy, but apparently according to him, I'm the one calling the shots.

Amazing.

Like I told you many times: I was too busy saving my own life to have simultaneously designed and conducted a medical study on myself. Why you expect that of anyone is beyond comprehension. People who are ill and determined to get better do whatever it takes to do so; but why you’d expect they would also be some sort of third party omniscient observer of themselves conducting tests and keeping journals like they were conducting a medical study is completely beyond me.

I didn’t require a degree in the field to Know that I wasn’t always that bad, and that if something could make it worse, something could make it better. I just had to figure out what it was and then do it - and I did.

The only journal I have is the one I scribbled down my horrifically depressive thoughts in while doing self administered CBT after reading the book “Feeling Good,” by Dr. David Burns. Those CBT depression checklist scores were frustrating in real time as they kept getting worse, not better. They became valuable though as I knew my thoughts were getting worse vs better and that there must be some sort of cause for it. Eventually I learned of/figured out the salicylate acid sensitivity and what was causing it and that the antidote to detox the acids was Epsom salts to balance a mineral deficiency, and then things began to rapidly improve - because the cause was biochemical, not just “all in my head.”

It makes no difference to anyone else what Joe Blow the drywaller does or doesn't do in or with his life.

That is just such a load, goldfish. I offered a serious intellectual direction for this discussion and you in no way responded appropriately. I'm done.

I don’t Need someone else to tell me my diagnosis because I already know it.

You’re the one who wants to play lawyer and demand evidence. So, I offered. Hell, I invited you to my home (open invitation) to meet me and see for yourself. If you and your parents are the ASD experts you pretend you are on the internet, then you’ll figure it out right quick from my mannerisms, vocabulary, prosody of my speech, gait to my step when I walk, and umpteen other telltale signs.

But you don’t want to accept that I’m an honest man telling the God’s honest truth about all of this. You simply want to argue that it’s not & that’s that.

Excuse me? What are you talking about?

Why would he want to respond appropriately? There's no years long fun in that.

LOL.

Apprentice Taper.

I see you’ve yet to mature enough to realize that no one should be talked down to or belittled based on how they earn their money. Maybe that’s something you could get your behavioural specialists to teach you about.

And it most certainly would make a difference to someone who’s actually involved with ASD assessments/research, ie Not You.