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animar506

Rules for Posting

Mar 07, 2006 06:07

Hi Friends,
Just a note that there will be no specific names used in the text of the messages. Feel free to discuss ideas, how to accomplish them and just be friends.

The purpose of this list is to learn about restoring friendships and learning about disorders that tend to prevent such relational occurrances.

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Asperger's... I begin to wonder. shyallyn March 9 2006, 08:14:00 UTC

I am not so sure I positively believe it's real or not. But I agree that we should question things we are told by Doctors. They are sometimes paid to endorse things, I will draw from personal experience here, because it is what I know. Breastfeeding, for example. It isn't something that the majority of women in the US do. Why? Because we are force-fed ads for formula and they make it seem so easy, put some powder in a bottle, shake it up and voila, you don't have to do anything else. Peds are paid by the formula companies to endorse their product, KNOWING full well that breast milk is by far superior to their product, which is made from cow's milk for the most part and has for years lacked components like DHA and ARA good for a human baby's brain and eye developement. I am not saying anyone who formula feeds is a bad person/mom/parent. On the contrary, I blame the formula companies for being greedy. I think formula is a wonderful invention for adoptive mothers or women who cannot produce enough milk for their offspring. But think ( ... )

Re: Asperger's... I begin to wonder. (cont.) shyallyn March 9 2006, 08:14:35 UTC

Whether Asperger's is real or imagined, I don't think we can say for certain. For many people, their diagnosis was a relief and helped them find the answers they sought. They found a way to cope. For some, it seems to be a curse. A way to stagnate, to blame the world for being mean to them and to stay that way because its easier to do that than to pick oneself up and move forward. To stop seeing that everyone is fallible and we make mistakes that hurt those around us, but it is our love and forgiveness that keep our lives enriched with friendship and family. That is my take. If it's real, then it has helped some and that can't be all bad. Even if it's not, then we still have to consider the good it has done for some people, along with the bad it has done to some people ( ... )

Re: Asperger's... I begin to wonder. (cont.) animar506 March 9 2006, 15:00:01 UTC

I totally agree!! I think that if AS is real each person given that diagnoses (or many other "diseases" also) should choose what to do with that knowledge. It seems foolish to hear how you are wired and choose not to learn from others who have experience the same thing. If there are resources available to use and others to learn from, then why not use those?

No one is perfect, we all have our struggles. Most of us don't have "named" ones tho. Maybe we are better off for it. I don't know.

I believe that a diagnoses certainly could be used for good, and that parents are trying to do just that, but when it is against one's will then it doesn't do much good!

Thanks for posting. :)

Re: Asperger's... I begin to wonder. (cont.) seekingtheway March 12 2006, 02:10:29 UTC

I believe in helping others ... to help themselves. Because "God helps those who help themselves" so doesn't it stand to reason if you can help somebody to help themselves you are helping them get closer to God? Now, it doesn't HAVE to be Christ/Jewish God just because I grew up Methodist and am now gnostic Christian. But, it is a nice thing to do, it's empathy and caring and whatever the person believes it can still help them see their strengths and weaknesses and hopefully how to cope better. TO help somebody be the best they can be is my goal! But, not so it's MY version of htem, but God's version of them. Some people choose to see this as me being high and mighty and egotistical and stuff, but it seems to be said only when they find they cannot agree to disagree anymore. -sigh ( ... )

Re: Asperger's... I begin to wonder. (cont.) seekingtheway March 12 2006, 02:00:20 UTC

wow, you're smart and seeking! That's great! Too many people today assume. They assume wht they think, or told, is true, and if you say the opposite you must be loony or wrong ( ... )

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