Posted on: Mon, Dec 3 2007 9:12 PM
Posted by: Nightengale Posts: 686
I relate to dozens of the things on that list. . .
I'm a bit confused how this is differnet from SID (Sensory integration dysfunction). Will have to look that one up.
As far as the DSM, it's useful but not the be all and end all. It wasn't very long ago that homosexuality was in there as a legitmate mental disorder. And too many obviously impairing conditions don't fit categories well enough and are appended with -NOS. Someone could have an eating disorder that is signifigantly impairing on their life, yet not be eleigable for services because they don't meet the strict criteria for anorexia or bulemia and are lucky to get a label Eating Disorder NOS. And then things like "qualitative impairment" in things like Aspergers are not well defined at all. Until we can diagnose psychological and neuropyschological condtions by PET scan and blood tests, the DSM is all we have. But I wouldn't take the lack of inclusion to suggest a lack of realness, or vice versa.
Posted on: Mon, Dec 3 2007 10:30 PM
Posted by: Kara Posts: 2,333
Nightengale:As far as the DSM, it's useful but not the be all and end all.
Oh I totally agree-especially from a research standpoint. Unfortunately from a treatment standpoint with current managed care, DSM classification is a requirement to receive funding for care---even some of the conditions that are within the DSM aren't covered so it's a careful balancing game of ascribing a label which may best fit the person but according to our current standards won't merit care.
Posted on: Mon, Dec 3 2007 10:32 PM
For anyone else following that might not have had the pleasure of memorizing the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), NOS stands for Not Otherwise Specified....in layman's terms-you sorta fit this diagnosis but not really!
Posted on: Tue, Dec 4 2007 11:05 AM
Posted by: zgailgoodman Posts: 81
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Posted on: Fri, Dec 7 2007 7:53 PM
Posted by: Joel Posts: 631
As a person with aspergers, I am VERY picky about what I wear! I don't mind getting massages though...
I didn't know others with my disability had the same problem!
Posted on: Sun, Dec 23 2007 11:03 PM
Posted by: Dearone Posts: 63
Kara, I memorised it once but long ago, I can't remember what I read by now, let alone know the newest.
I am so picky about what I wear among many things. my clothes have to be just so or it's beyond what I can stand. I don't know how to explain.
I think that's facinating with the person, sorry can't remember your name, that worked for so long, and became more sensitive. At work they often bring up how sleep deprivasion can effect a persons sences.
Posted on: Sun, May 11 2008 8:27 PM
Posted by: purplerage Posts: 24
yes, I agree, whether you are there or not, there is noise, the tree fell, and the crash took place.
You were not there, you did not hear it, let's agree, you and I are there, and witness the tree fall,
then, let's try some other facts, like we are both deaf, we can't hear the tree fall, but we are deaf.
The tree fell, we could feel the tree fall, and witness the force of the tree falling, and flee, I don't
know which tree fell, but hopfully, we were deaf, we could hear the force of the wind and the all
encompassing space that got moved because the tree fell, just hope, it didn't fall on us. rite!
I was told, by someone at UCLA that he coined the phase "asperger". he continued to explain
what he expected me to have, being sent back to my doctors, they are not in agreement. Well,
when I was a child, I did not act as a child, I might have had the problem, not that I outgrew it,
but I do function, like no one sees what I have, yet no one can tell me what I have, not sezuries,
they don't agree with terretts, but they don't know, and when I was young, they didn't tell me,
they just left me, not knowing what I had, as I continued to have problems all the way around.
I still don't know, as I try to continue to find out, what do I really have, and they don't know.
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