mental discrimination.

[Dew k. Mosi]

Not really though, because when it happens, it is usually in public settings, a defensive mechanism because I am not socially gifted (hence my love of the internet.) Writing tends to be a very solitary endeavor. Not much stress for me there.

 

[Danalys]

do you ever get ideas from these imaginings tho. that you can later use in writting. or are they just comfort zones without much of intrest to write about.

 

[Jonathan Archer]

I find your condition rather intriguing, Danalys. Could you give us an example of a social behaviour that you have gone against? I mean, surely you don't drive the wrong way on a one way street. What, chew with your mouth open?

Sorry, I don't mean to disparage your character. Just out of curiosity.

 

[Addendum]

I've found the least I interact with society, the better my day is.

 

[Jonathan Archer]

Was the feeling mutual?

 

[Danalys]

I find your condition rather intriguing, Danalys. Could you give us an example of a social behaviour that you have gone against? I mean, surely you don't drive the wrong way on a one way street. What, chew with your mouth open?

Sorry, I don't mean to disparage your character. Just out of curiosity.

it's more reading body language and stuff like that, stuff that comes naturally to most. also i keep my expression very neutral so people can't really tell my reactions to what they are saying. it's all about odd social interaction rather than anything else. my body language is either overly animated or hardly there at all. so for example i'll talk with my hands alot when i'm engrossed in a conversation. it stuff that isn't really wrong per se but different and possibly unsettling.

 

[Jonathan Archer]

Interesting.

So, you're the person who annoys (pardon the expression, but it's for the lack of a better word) others at a black-tie function, so to speak.

 

[Addendum]

Was the feeling mutual?

I lack the motivation or interest to find out

 

[Danalys]

people aren't so much annoyed as just think i'm odd sometimes, like i'm odd in an endearing way sometimes. more a case of they'd rather be talking to someone else. also people often think i don't like them since i'm not recipricating these social cues.

 

[Jonathan Archer]

Asperger's disease not being so well known, would your behaviour be misinterpreted as social ineptitude? What have you been accused of?

 

[Danalys]

Asperger's disease not being so well known, would your behaviour be misinterpreted as social ineptitude? What have you been accused of?

i don't know it basicaly is social ineptitude. i'm no expert about the ins and outs of the condition anyway. i've just been reading about it since my doctor suggested that had led to my depression, anxiety and sleeping disorders.

 

[Jonathan Archer]

Well, be that as it may, I'm sure you'll be living life to the fullest.

 

[Danalys]

that's sounds really condecending altho i'm sure it's probably not ment to be.

 

[Jonathan Archer]

It wasn't, and I apologise if it appeared to be. I was wishing you the best of health.

 

[Danalys]

i see the doctor again in a month. i'm trying to decide if i'm going to see a psycho therapist as he suggested. partly why i made this thread.

 

[FunBobPants]

what kind of treatments are they going to give you if you decide to do that? i wouldnt do it if i were you

 

[Danalys]

i don't know i'll find out more it'll just be talking probably.

 

[FunBobPants]

my cousin tried that once when he pretty much forgot most of his life. it helped but he said it was horrible. they treat you like youre a baby, not a guy who just has amnesia

 

[Danalys]

anyway i have to sleep at an unusual hour now.

 

[Immortalfire]

Doctors will tell you anything as long as they get paid and you get hooked on their "medicine".

Yup.

 

[Danalys]

i don't think it would be like that so much on the nation health service.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

All these "mental disorders" tick me off, really. Most of them are simply excuses to peddle medicine. How many years did we live without know that ADD was a "disorder?" I have ADHD apparently, and no one diagnosed it as a kid. They just taught me a NEW WAY to function in class. When I got bored and wanted to wander, they would tell me to read a book, write a story or draw a picture, and that it was inappropriate to pester others.

I was taught to function in society, NOT be coddled so that I never learned.

 

[TheSumOfGod]

You should take a Scientology personality profile test. It's multiple-choice, and they know the results ahead of time.

 

[Lackey]

All these "mental disorders" tick me off, really. Most of them are simply excuses to peddle medicine. How many years did we live without know that ADD was a "disorder?" I have ADHD apparently, and no one diagnosed it as a kid. They just taught me a NEW WAY to function in class. When I got bored and wanted to wander, they would tell me to read a book, write a story or draw a picture, and that it was inappropriate to pester others.

I was taught to function in society, NOT be coddled so that I never learned.

completely agree

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

You should take a Scientology personality profile test. It's multiple-choice, and they know the results ahead of time.

I was going to once but they charge for the results and they have to "discuss it with you" I was scared if I went in for the results Iwould never come back out


Besides it's LOOOOOOOONG