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A medical doctor who is a friend of mine told me his professor told him in school that many healthy students each year are terrified after learning about brain tumors and they will leave class that day convinced they have one- based on the symptoms which are also common in the populous and shared with many and more innocuous things.
I was diagnosed with Asperger when I was 17. I have started to doubt that it's correct though. I've met a few other people with Asperger and they were more noticeably different than I am.
Quote from: Sandi on March 18, 2016, 04:08:44 AMI was diagnosed with Asperger when I was 17. I have started to doubt that it's correct though. I've met a few other people with Asperger and they were more noticeably different than I am.No two people with Asperger's/autism are the same. If you have met one person with autism then you have met one person with autism. I have met several other people with Asperger's/autism and they all seem very different from me. I questioned a lot too if I really did have autism because even with other autistic people I don't fit in. I do not strike as autistic. But I do have autism, there are too many things that give it away for me and everyone is an individual, maybe even more so when you have autism. I am not saying that you definately have autism because I have no way of knowing that. I'm just telling you my own experience
This is true in America I believe, but not here in the UK. As I am new to all this, someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read exactly that, that they kept the phrase Asperger's Syndrome here in the UK, despite the review of the term in the US.
Then again, ponies and ASD are obviously a connection. So in that light, maybe it's not off topic? I mean, from my point of view, I can't remember not having ponies. And ponies marked key events in my life. When my sister was born, when my mum was ill, when I graduated...all these things. So in a way, ponies became markers of milestones that are, in their own way, achievements of living with ASD in spite of the large amount of misinterpretation that still exists regarding it.
Hmmmm I would prefer not to be diagnosed or labelled. Other people's diagnoses' is none of my business. I treat people like human beings, not according to how psychiatry manuals advise that certain individuals should be gently handled. If you like ponies and you're here, that's fine by me. Don't expect to be treated any differently than anyone else, because we are here for our love of ponies!