Autism?

[Brass]

Just out of curiousity, how many of you have autism, or you are on the spectrum? 

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

With the things I'm obsessed with, you would think I was on the spectrum :V

[Brass]

Na. You're just a weirdo. 

Edited January 13, 2016 by Brass

[Vallium]

2 minutes ago, Brass said:

Na. You're just a weirdo. 

...ok

[Cingal]

Nope.

 

I am Autistless.

[#00Buck]

This thread could have been so much better. 

[Spot]

I'm offensive and I find this autistic.

[Brass]

55 minutes ago, #00Buck said:

This thread could have been so much better. 

I made it just to ruin it for you. I didn't even attempt to make it offensive. 

[#00Buck]

2 minutes ago, Brass said:

I made it just to ruin it for you. I didn't even attempt to make it offensive. 

Yeah but you didn't even ruin it well. 

Low content thread. 

[axelthefox]

I was diagnosed with it at a early age and i went to a special school and such.

[Brass]

8 minutes ago, axelthefox said:

I was diagnosed with it at a early age and i went to a special school and such.

Train engineering school? 

[axelthefox]

Just now, Brass said:

Train engineering school? 

Nope.

http://www.harbourschool.org/

 

[willow]

1 hour ago, #00Buck said:

This thread could have been so much better. 

I think Brass is trying to steal your thunder

trying being the operative word here

[Joel]

My parents were antivaxxers so nope all I have is smallpox and polio :V

[MuttButt]

I've got d'awwtism

Wruff~

[Revates]

Perhaps.

[Gamedog]

Noooo

[Bloodshot_Eyes]

Maybe? 

[Saxon]

Nope. I am surprised how many people have responded 'yes' to the poll, but it's small-# statistics so far. 

Edited January 13, 2016 by Saxon

[Terminal7]

No. Of course I'm not Aussie >.>

(I'm waiting for you)

[malibu]

I have a coworker who thinks I'm an Aussie because I don't like being touched. I haven't been diagnosed with it, though, so I'm going to go with "no", I don't have it.

[Dr. Doggo]

Apparently yes, but a lot of people I've met think the diagnosis doesn't quite add up, and these are people who work with those on the spectrum. I've also spent tons of time in the company of those who are definitely afflicted by it and our similarities are very narrow. The general consensus says that I may have a false diagnosis but I'm not "normal" either. If I do have it, it's mild.

When I fuck up at any time I'm usually excused based on my hearing impairment anyway. Fuck yeah, stealth autism.

Edited January 13, 2016 by Sir Gibby

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

Where's the "I don't know" choice?

[Newt]

4 minutes ago, Sarcastic Coffeecup said:

Where's the "I don't know" choice?

Where's the "very yes" option?

[Onnes]

2 hours ago, Saxon said:

Nope. I am surprised how many people have responded 'yes' to the poll, but it's small-# statistics so far. 

My prior hunch for autism prevalence on this forum has remained around 10% just going by how many people self-identified here, the assumption that a significant fraction will not self-identify, and the fact that's it's impossible to spend much time here and not start thinking that the furry fandom is its own spectrum disorder.

Of course, this troll poll probably won't tell you anything. People are going to vote yes regardless just because it's funnier to skew the yes fraction higher, and must users aren't going to participate in the first place.

[axelthefox]

Surprising the number is so low. Cause there been surveys of the fandom done that suggests that most in the fandom have autism or aspergers. https://www.flayrah.com/5425/survey-suggests-furries-think-differently-arent-crazy

[Onnes]

7 minutes ago, axelthefox said:

Surprising the number is so low. Cause there been surveys of the fandom done that suggests that most in the fandom have autism or aspergers. https://www.flayrah.com/5425/survey-suggests-furries-think-differently-arent-crazy

The survey in that link has an incidence of 4%. Obviously that's higher than the general population which is < 2%, but it's not an enormous difference, especially when you consider the methodological limitations of that survey and the difficulty of estimating incidence in the general population.

[Snagged]

The question itself is so black and white so I'm just going to answer yes and no

From very young age, doctors suspected I had autism because I barely talked and communicated but they couldn't quite diagnose it. Later on they thought of Aspergers. Nevertheless, I've never received an official diagnosis, I haven't needed any special treatment and life is good and nobody has ever asked me if I have autism/aspergers. 

And from what I have seen from actual autistic people, I am far off from their level, though I share certain similarities. I consider my personality was born and developed naturally and not due to autism/aspergers

[Barnectomy]

[Brass]

5 hours ago, Snagged Cub said:

The question itself is so black and white so I'm just going to answer yes and no

From very young age, doctors suspected I had autism because I barely talked and communicated but they couldn't quite diagnose it. Later on they thought of Aspergers. Nevertheless, I've never received an official diagnosis, I haven't needed any special treatment and life is good and nobody has ever asked me if I have autism/aspergers. 

And from what I have seen from actual autistic people, I am far off from their level, though I share certain similarities. I consider my personality was born and developed naturally and not due to autism/aspergers

Do you do the hang flap thing? Are you able to make eye contact with people?

9 minutes ago, Barnectomy said:

Okay that's cheating. He's the king of autists. 

[jcstinks]

I'd say around 5% of the people with autism I've worked with turned out to be explicit furries.

Who knows how many stealth furries there are.

[Pignog]

i caught the auts last week

[Conker]

Nope.

Got little else to answer with, really.

Look, more words.

And done.

[Señor Sal]

I am of the autism.

[Brass]

Just now, Señor Sal said:

I am of the autism.

*flaps hands* ~~~~hi ^.__.^

[Señor Sal]

Just now, Brass said:

*flaps hands* ~~~~hi ^.__.^

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[Machine]

I was diagnosed as being mildly autistic, but now I don't know the validity of my own diagnosis.

[Snagged]

12 hours ago, Brass said:

Do you do the hang flap thing?

Nope

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Are you able to make eye contact with people?

Yes

[Caledonian]

yep, aspergers. tested and all.

[Vallium]

-\_(⊙ω⊙)_/- IDK, I have issues with life sometimes but I deal, dont we all? Its not like it matters if I did or not.Im leaning towards no though, I just dont have a diagnosis.

 

Edited January 14, 2016 by WolfNightV4X1

[jcstinks]

They didn't know what to do with me, so they gave me a choice. I decided I must have Asperger's since my insurance covers it better than PDD-NOS.

I spent the next five years studying social skills, so my doctor now tells me I don't qualify for the diagnosis since I no longer have symptoms. So I guess it went away? But it's a forever diagnosis, so it's confusing.

[Saxon]

8 minutes ago, jcstinks said:

They didn't know what to do with me, so they gave me a choice. I decided I must have Asperger's since my insurance covers it better than PDD-NOS.

I spent the next five years studying social skills, so my doctor now tells me I don't qualify for the diagnosis since I no longer have symptoms. So I guess it went away? But it's a forever diagnosis, so it's confusing.

Maybe the initial diagnosis was incorrect. 

[Onnes]

2 hours ago, jcstinks said:

They didn't know what to do with me, so they gave me a choice. I decided I must have Asperger's since my insurance covers it better than PDD-NOS.

I spent the next five years studying social skills, so my doctor now tells me I don't qualify for the diagnosis since I no longer have symptoms. So I guess it went away? But it's a forever diagnosis, so it's confusing.

Huh. I thought that diagnosing a PDD in adults was preferably done by focusing on developmental history from childhood. I mean, the point of much behavioral training for autism spectrum is to enable someone to interact as if they did not have ASD; it's not like that actually eliminates the disorder, it just makes it less visible and impairing.

[jcstinks]

6 hours ago, Onnes said:

Huh. I thought that diagnosing a PDD in adults was preferably done by focusing on developmental history from childhood. I mean, the point of much behavioral training for autism spectrum is to enable someone to interact as if they did not have ASD; it's not like that actually eliminates the disorder, it just makes it less visible and impairing.

The problem is that you can't be diagnosed with a disorder if it doesn't currently impair you. So I may have a janky brain, but I can't take credit for it if I work hard enough to compensate for my deficits.

[Onnes]

2 minutes ago, jcstinks said:

The problem is that you can't be diagnosed with a disorder if it doesn't currently impair you. So I may have a janky brain, but I can't take credit for it if I work hard enough to compensate for my deficits.

It really is a perverted sense of impairment. You can compensate, or cope, with lots of things while still holding some level of mental and physical burden from coping. If someone is missing a leg, they can have minimal impairment in their day to day lives, but no one is going to say that they aren't missing a leg and that that doesn't cost them. It seems like a flaw in treating persistent disorders under the same framing as temporary ones and evaluating only observable function. I can't say I've personally heard of a PDD being 'revoked' though.

[Troj]

Um, yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if you have PDD-NOS, you have PDD-NOS. If you have autism, you have autism. If you learn how to cope, then congratulations, you have PDD-NOS or autism, AND some coping strategies for it.

Being able to cope isn't the same thing as being "cured," IMHO.

 

[Saxon]

On 1/15/2016 at 1:38 AM, Onnes said:

It really is a perverted sense of impairment. You can compensate, or cope, with lots of things while still holding some level of mental and physical burden from coping. If someone is missing a leg, they can have minimal impairment in their day to day lives, but no one is going to say that they aren't missing a leg and that that doesn't cost them. It seems like a flaw in treating persistent disorders under the same framing as temporary ones and evaluating only observable function. I can't say I've personally heard of a PDD being 'revoked' though.

There's not much point in diagnosing someone with something if they're coping fine and the diagnosis isn't going to change that, is there? There is a significant risk of over-diagnosis if Doctors do that, for symptom-based pathologies. 

 

Um, yeah, as far as I'm concerned, if you have PDD-NOS, you have PDD-NOS. If you have autism, you have autism. If you learn how to cope, then congratulations, you have PDD-NOS or autism, AND some coping strategies for it.

Being able to cope isn't the same thing as being "cured," IMHO.

 

 

 

It's possible that an original diagnosis is incorrect, and that the patient only feels they have compensated for a deficiency because they're grown up being told that there is something wrong with them. 

Edited January 17, 2016 by Saxon

[Half-Note]

I voted no to feel more like the normies.

My autismo is mild though, so weee. And working on that shit, so woop woop.

[jcstinks]

Even I am genuinely surprised how many people are autistic here. Then again, it explains a lot of behavior on the forums. The sudden negative mood swings, difficulty taking criticism, and the tendency to pick posts apart while missing the main point.

On 1/15/2016 at 8:38 PM, Onnes said:

 I can't say I've personally heard of a PDD being 'revoked' though.

Not revoked, but rather, if I were to be evaluated now, I would no longer qualify for the diagnosis. The benchmarks for "qualitative impairment" are no longer met.

 

[Troj]

3 hours ago, Saxon said:

It's possible that an original diagnosis is incorrect, and that the patient only feels they have compensated for a deficiency because they're grown up being told that there is something wrong with them. 

Oh, absolutely. That could always be a possibility, especially given how admittedly open-ended and loosey-goosey the assessment process can be in these cases.

I've definitely run into situations where there wasn't an exact term for what was going on with a person, but an approximate diagnosis had to be assigned in order for them to be able to receive services and support.