Long Time, No Me

[fickleviolet]

Well, ya know, I really was meaning to update my LJ earlier, but...

*insert excuses for laziness & ADD-ish behavior here*

Seriously, though, I was away for Easter - went to my grandma' as I do every year.  Her house is full of dust and I thought my awful scratchy throat and drippy nose was from that, but it turns out I was just coming down with the

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[fickleviolet]

Get a salvage title car! Seriously. Dirt cheap. Just have a really good mechanic check it out beforehand and have him drive it, too.

That is a very interesting theory - I wonder about that myself. What distinguishes ADD and High Functioning Autism and related disorders, anyway? Is there physical evidence, like an MRI, or is it just more or less a list of sympotoms like ADD? I suspect my mom might have Aspergers, but I know better than to even go there with her :)

Horses don't like stepping on people too much, I don't think - but if they do, yell like hell and shove them right back off again! Durn big iron-shod hooves!

[anonymous]

Well Autism research in terms of brain anatomy and activation patterns is still very much in its infancy. I think in my project I summed up pretty well where the state of affairs is right now. Mainly because Autism has such characteristic symptoms of social failure that it is easily diagnosed via symptoms, and any other attention problems are written off as secondary to whatever was wrong with their brains. Also in the case of ADD the school problems get the most attention and social failure is attributed to self esteem and not learning social cues because your not paying attention to them

[fickleviolet]

Very, very cool! And agreed as to how secondary sympotoms are ignored. I'm inattentive type, not hyperactive, and the fact that secondary sympotoms don't really "count" especially in that type might account for the fact that I've only just been diagnosed now, at 24.

That must have been REALLY interesting to research while you were writing that paper. I'm going to see if my library has that book - I'll let you know what I think of it!