Madd Memory: How My Memory Does not Suck

[madd74]

In the spirit of the last entry, I am not doing my regular spell checking and the like. I said everything would make more sense with this post, so, here you go... I have dyslexia. Big deal, right? I thought nothing of it until I realized, I had no actual clue what dyslexia is, and this entry is going to cover some of that, as well as how I

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Re: this is interesting

[madd74]

I do not think it to be ADD, and have not been officially diagnosed. I am going to look for my DSM-IVr2 to clarify if by textbook standards this is true. In many instances, you think you have one thing, but the DSM gives the information similar to, "this is not described by...". For instance, some people could be classified as schizophrenic because they are always on LCD. Well, from what I remember on my teachings, there should be a clause for schizophrenia that state symptoms are not otherwise explained by drug use, thus ruling out that you are actually schizophrenic (because the few times you are off LCD the symptoms are not present).

Well, I understand how many people will see a few symptoms, and with that, they assume they are the rest, (If it walks like a duck...... then it must be a duck) and I am also familiar with people who are hypochondria, the somatoform disorder where you have a few symptoms of something (something my extremely nonsupporting girlfriend has more than brought up recently), so it has been extremely important that I make sure not happen in my case. Now, since the information I pulled up was on a personal webpage, that could be bias, and wikipedia, which speaks in and of iteslf (hehehe), I have not actually classified myself as such. I simply give myself about a 89.7 chance that it is true from what multiple information I have gotten thus far. Remember, I was not looking for this, it was information brought to me.

Thank you for the kind words, AND for being supportive, I do appreciate it very much. Still, as stated, while it can appear that I cope well, and in general terms I am, the fact is, the maddbrain has been attempting to understand what has been wrong all my life. If I now know, then it means the world to me, even if there turns out there is nothing that can be done about it.

*HUGS*