I think I kicked ass...

[kisekileia]

on my Law and Morality midterm last night. I'd be surprised if I didn't get close to full marks on the short-answer section (which was 20 of the 40 marks), and I'm pretty sure I nailed the second long answer question (10 of 40 marks), too. I was a little off on the first long answer (10 marks), but considering how well I did on the other questions

Comments

[johnkavelli]

Good work! I just got my essay back the other day, and I got a High Distinction which in ANU Law is the holy grail.

[kisekileia]

nice!

[lzdeldiasalvame]

sweet!

my mom will qualify for stuff like that if/when she goes back to school because she has intense adult adhd.

[kisekileia]

That's really cool that they figured out she has it. It's hard to diagnose adult ADHD sometimes because of a lack of good records from the person's childhood -- in my case, the psychiatrist couldn't make a definitive diagnosis because it wasn't clear that my symptoms had been noticed and seen as a problem before I was 7. There were records from before I was 7, but nobody was looking for inattention-predominant ADHD in intelligent girls at that time, and I think some of my symptoms were probably written off at the time as quirks attributable to my high IQ and not mentioned on records. My mental quirks have not always been a perfect fit with diagnostic criteria, though; it's possible that if a kid like me were growing up now, they'd even get an Asperger's diagnosis, but I don't really manifest those symptoms anymore -- people who interact with me now think my social skills are way too strong for that to be a possibility. I'm just weird.

[lzdeldiasalvame]

i work with autistic kids a lot and you could very well still have Asperger's, but you're just super high functioning. it's not that weird at all, but i don't hang out with you so i'm not gonna say, i'm just saying what i know of autism.

but yeah. she was severely adhd as a child, and she was just lucky enough to have a therapist who knew what to look for in her.

[kisekileia]

*nod* I had a couple of advantages in developing normal social skills: 1) parents who knew how to teach me, and were able to explain social things to me in order to compensate for my difficulties picking them up on my own; and 2) an interest in people and how they tick, combined with a good imagination and good analytical skills, which led me to read a lot of fiction and really try to understand both the people I read about in books and the people I encountered in real life. The Internet has helped a lot with that, too.

So, yeah, I had Asperger's symptoms as a kid (including the obsessive, eccentric interests and stuff), but I mostly just have subtle traces of them now. Nobody would diagnose me based on how I am now.

I'd love to talk with you in more detail about this, but I think I've already made myself sound like enough of a freak to my other friends who are reading this :P. Maybe on AIM sometime?

I'm really glad that your mom got diagnosed and stuff.