I know three people personally that have been diagnosed with AS, one adult and two children. I guess doctors and psychologists are really reluctant to diagnose it because, really, there isn't much in the way of knowledge about it, or it's very limited. People currently seem to be looking into it much more and adding more information about it in the DSM. At least that's what I'm told anyway.

I know the school systems can be a challenge for kids growing up with AS because teachers recognize a lot of the signs of AS and automatically assume that the child has some kind of attention deficit or kind of treats them like a disturbance instead of giving them the extra attention and guidance they need. The kids I know that have been diagnosed with AS have a very severe case and their teachers in school just aren't able to cope with it and their school psychologist outright refuses to accept the diagnosis as a legitimate one and refuses to help them in any way. It's really appalling how they're reacting to something they don't understand and refuse to learn about. It's really unfair.

oh I was just talking about the common clinical disorders like depression, social anxiety, ADHD
you don't have to have a dehabilitating case of it to get heavy medication for it
you just go in and tell the psychiatrist what you have, they agree and give you medication

but then when it comes to some of the rarer and harder to deal with stuff its HELL finding a good therapist
cause most of them claim to know the disorder but don't know anything more than a definition they heard while going through school

I have a pretty bad breakdown about 9 months ago
it took me 7 months to find someone
as in someone who wasn't just going to diagnose me with 467823964782 different things and try to stuff me full of pills

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Most of you are just hypochondriacs, rly.

actually the chances of someone having AS are higher than you assume.





yes, seeing a neurologist and being diagnosed with AS is classed as hypochondriac.

Let me guess, you've been diagnosed too?

no. and i wouldnt joke about it whether i had it or not.

WTA?

Why should you believe what people tell you on here? Just because they said they were diagnosed, that means they were?

im not bothered whether they have it or not, im just saying is it right to make fun about it when the band's singer, who's forum it is, has it.
as fans we should show support and not laugh at people who may or may not have it. it probably comes up more on here because craig has it.

I really don't think neurobiological disorders are something to be joked about. It offends me that some people think that half the forum would say they had AS to be more like Craig. When these other people have been dealing with these difficulties their whole lives.

I was actually diaganosed with being on the borderline of PDD and Aspergers when I was 11. But back then people still didn't really understand what it was. I haven't mentioned it much on here cos I was afraid of being labelled as one of those people trying to be like Craig. Also I just don't really feel comfortable talking about these things. I have a bad history of teachers and phychiatrists trying to help me but just making my problems worse. But I'm dealing with these things much better now so I'll just leave it at that.

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its catching.
watch yourself dan, you'll have people coming for you with pitchforks!

Hardly.

dont anger it.

theres a difference between not personally believing it and coming out calling anyone who says they have it lying hypochondriacs

its healthy being a bit critical
but unless you know for a fact that someone is pulling your leg, especially when it comes to something that affects a person as much as AS, mocking someone over it and calling them a hypochondriac crosses the line

we don't know who really has it and who doesn't
but I can't personally fathom that many people lying about something like that

and alot of people who have it were first diagnosed with a bunch of other things but knew they didn't have them, I would consider that the antithesis of hypochondria

take it all in danny boy.

Once again, I'm speechless.

bout time.
joke

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2/3 of The Vines fans have AS or some disorder.
2/3 of Nirvana fans have depression.

Lawl.

Haha, shut up.

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It's true though.

seriously

if you want to discuss the credibility of what disorders people say they have do it elsewhere because thats not the topic of this thread

I really don't care if you think the same way as I do Dan
but as a moderator here you're fucking up what is supposed to be positive thread with unbacked insults and I'm not going to allow that

You do have a point, but I'm sure it's just coincidence.

With all due respect, what exactly are you going to do about it?

up your warning level
if you do it enough you'll get account restiction yadda yadda yadda

My warning level? What is it now, 20%?

She's got mad admin powers.

yep


40

Make it 60%. Ta.

I'm not going to up your warning level because you don't give a rats ass about the system

I already know that

Giving me a warning was a bit moronic then, wasn't it?

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nope
its how it works

if you don't care how it works you end up on account restriction
if you do care and stop pulling shit you don't end up on account restriction

so its really not my problem

Oh, Lizzy. You love me really.

I do

but that doesn't mean you can't cross me

I agree, I don't think that many people could all lie about the same thing (having AS or any other disorder). I mean, granted, we really don't know for sure, but I would think doing so would be kind of disrespectful to those who really are dealing with such things.

There was this group of kids in my high school that thought it was so badass to go to the school psych to get therapy and stuff. They'd literally come to school with their prescription bottles for Prozac or whatever and be like "Look at me! I'm so depressed! It was kind of sad, the lengths they'd go to pull off the 'complicated, misunderstood teenager act'.

I think I pretty much believe the people that say they're dealing with AS or anything else because, really, what kind of consolation could the internet provide? Other than support of others dealing with similar things, which I would think would be a decent enough motive to share such personal information.

But, anyway, it's cool that people can come on here and talk about issues and stuff. It's interesting to read other people's perspectives on things, the positives and negatives I guess.

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I wasn't debating with you, nor was I calling you an obsessed freak. I was looking at both sides of things in relation to my own personal experience, and ultimately agreeing with you.

And I'm probably one of those obsessed freaks, but I haven't yet reached the stage of self-diagnosis

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I don't have aspergers but i do have many different problems relating depression.
I'm what you call a bi-polar thats on and off suicide watch.
its just fun to be me.
but at the moment i'm at my dads so i'm happy it only gets bad when i'm in melbourne on my own.

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Why is your apostrophe doobawhacky so funny looking?

EDIT: Ah, nevermind. I'm a dumbass. You just use the other one

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my french teacher said that about 5 times yesterday.
ok that was pretty useless.

I do it alot if I don't feel like going into details
do it to my students all the time

....you're a teacher? wow

lol@thisthread

lol@thisidiot