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Jet102fm
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20 Jun 2011, 8:25 pm

As in, saying that we all have a lot of commonalities?
Please...we've had enough of that in society.
Having people put ASD into boxes such as being a math, science wizard, etc.?

Everyone is telling me I should work with computers. I do like computers, but what I really long is for the performing arts.



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20 Jun 2011, 8:27 pm

Who is "everyone"?
I know a lot of autistic people that excel in the performing arts. The student organizer of my college's Drama Club is HFA.



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20 Jun 2011, 8:52 pm

Jet102fm wrote:
As in, saying that we all have a lot of commonalities?
Please...we've had enough of that in society.
Having people put ASD into boxes such as being a math, science wizard, etc.?

Everyone is telling me I should work with computers. I do like computers, but what I really long is for the performing arts.


hm... okay... well, there is a list of criteria that an indiviual must to meet in order to have a diagnosis of and ASD... So, that would be a lot of commonalities.


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20 Jun 2011, 8:52 pm

Well, if you've received a diagnosis of AS (or are self-DX'ed), notice how all of the copies of the DSM-IV-TR (that huge gray book on the desk of every psychiatrist worldwide) list the same symptoms, for the sane disorder, on the same page, in the same section. This means that all shrinks who diagnose AS use the exact same guidelines or "boxes". You either match what it says in the "boxes" and get diagnosed with AS, or you don't match the criteria and get diagnosed with something else.

While each shrink will have different views on whether a patient has AS, the "boxes" always remain the same, no matter what.



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20 Jun 2011, 9:27 pm

Whoa. So that is a box I wake up in every morning.


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