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monstahh` 09-12-2012 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet (Post 1771031888)
@ Mon - Wow... 8 points under me.



Though mine are higher on both... so I'm not sure how that works lol

I didn't answer a couple of questions cos I didn't know the answer. I don't think I missed that many though. (I really think I only skipped over 2)
Thats my best guess why they're so different though

The Wandering Poet 09-12-2012 04:57 AM

Which questions Mon? ^^ Was it from not knowing what they meant? Or not knowing about yourself?

monstahh` 09-12-2012 06:21 PM

Not knowing them about myself. ><

The Wandering Poet 09-13-2012 01:59 AM

I see... well save the link then, I know personally I had a few question marks my first time around, maybe over time you'll get a more accurate result ^^

YourLuckyKeyblade 09-14-2012 09:50 PM

I've been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I don't actually see things but I used to hear things that would tell me to kill myself and hurt other people and along with that I've been diagnosed with Depression. I am now on medication and don't have any of the symptoms anymore and am happy. c:

The Wandering Poet 09-14-2012 09:51 PM

@ Keyblade - That's odd... because I hear voices too... >.>" I'm telling them to shut up on a regular basis... telling me to do horrible things...

Scathe 09-15-2012 03:47 AM

I've been diagnosed with General Anxiety, Social and Panic Disorder and I was Diagnosed with Depression a long while back but recently that's been removed. I guess I had anxiety the whole time (which I believe now fed the past depression) but nobody ever thought to look for that until it got really bad and I had issues breathing properly; I'm guessing it's because of the gender bias the disorder has that nobody thought to check for it or suggest it to me besides my current girlfriend who kept telling me about it until I finally looked into it myself and got myself some help, heh.

I also have a sleeping disorder that's undiagnosed and that will probably stay that way as there isn't much they can do for it, I also suspect mild Aspergers and ADD but as long as it doesn't hinder my life much I'm fine not knowing for sure.

Avoret 09-15-2012 08:47 AM

I have GAD Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Several odd phobias have sprung thanks to it as well (Highways,Escalators,Walking down the street alone,People knocking at my front door etc.). Usually when I feel a panic attack coming on I can control it and force myself to calm down. Meds help alot. [sweat]

Also I have some sort of Motor Control problem to where I literally was born klutzy. I fumble with things and cannot swim very well thanks to it. My muscles aren't weak my brain just get's confused trying to use them sometimes. Luckily it only effect physical activities a small bit and not needed things like breathing or stuff like that.
But it frustrates me alot. But since I got into Taekwondo at a young age most of it has sorted itself out and drawing fixed most of them problems in my hands. I draw better then I can write. DX

Also a normal one everyone hears about : depression. My doctors say I have it even though I'm rarely if ever negative and or down and can quickly cheer myself up. So I honestly have no Idea how in the world I have Depression.

I act all tough and strong and usually it helps me feel better and not worry so much. Just gotta take it one day at a time.

ponponpon 09-16-2012 01:48 PM

Eating disorder and I am obsessed with shades of colors.. Like, when I buy something, It needs to be EXACTLY the shade of color I want. I don't know, I am too lazy to explain further >__<

The Wandering Poet 09-16-2012 06:58 PM

@ Pon - I have that problem on menewsha a lot... if it's a shade off it drives me nuts o.o
(Like my pants >.>")

Kavu 09-16-2012 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet (Post 1770993481)
So I was wondering, do you have one? Do you know someone who has one? I'm rather fascinated by the different ways the brain is designed, and disorders have interested me since I met someone with Asperger's Syndrome 5 or so years ago.

Personally, I know one person with Asperger's Syndrome and I used to know someone with ADD but am no longer friends with them.

Myself, I am quite certain I have a social disorder of some sort, as while I "thrive" (if you can call it that) online, I utterly fail at social interaction in person.

What about you?


I thrive online, but Offline i'm completely socially awkward. I hardly leave the house and talking to people is intense [headdesk] If only you could just blacklist the person across the street or the ones who bother you and never see them again :p It's so much easier to talk to people when you can't see them. You can erase your mistakes with a backspace bar, you can express yourself better, and personally I find it easier to get to know someone for the same reasons. However the people around you don't really understand that, so they think there's something seriously wrong with you, they call you a shut in, get upset when you don't attend holiday family gatherings, etc. [sarcasm]

The Wandering Poet 09-16-2012 07:22 PM

@ Kavu - >.>" oh yeah... family gatherings... I had forgotten about those... I skip new years (tons of alcohol and yelling/noise) and I skip my birthday (noisy people) and I skip a few other holidays...

Christmas and Thanksgiving are near impossible to skip though...

fade_to_grey 09-17-2012 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ling (Post 1771030274)
fade_to_grey: Synaethesia sounds fascinating. Were you born with these merged senses or did it develop at a later stage in your life? Also if you were born with it, how did you know you sensed things differently to others?

hmm... lol i've explain this so many times to so many different people and i still think it's hard [lol] so just bear with me... ok so anyway... i didn't know i had synaesthesia (or synesthesia - both spellings are correct :P) until this year. long story short, i had some odd experiences that i soon found out weren't normal lol... i hadn't been much of a talker til last year either, so i'm sure that has something to do with it. i mean, you don't know that something's not normal until someone else tells you, right? so anyway, i sort of tend to say whatever pops into my head (unless it happens to be rude) so everyone would look at me funny when i said things like... "he's such a yellow person" (because that's what color - i call it an aura for lack of a better word - his aura was) or "his aura's a light shade of grey and it's vibrating really quickly... lol did he have a mountain dew for lunch or something??" or "i don't remember what number it was... but since it was a cool color it had to be an even number... it wasn't dark enough to be an 8 or 6... so it had to be a 2 or 4... i get them confused sometimes since 4 is periwinkle and 2 is lavender..." or "i like this song... it sounds like clear water with undertones of grey, blue, and pale green..." or "i love the lead singer of breaking benjamin's voice. it's a dark pitch black and full of passion." lol so whoever i was talking to would be like "what the heck are you talking about???" and i would explain it again and they would be like "ummm... that doesn't make any sense..." so i was like... "oh... this isn't normal..." so i researched by typing in phrases like what i just wrote above and found out i had several forms of syneasthesia ^^ (i'm just an associator though :P not a projector) so i then i was happy because my weird way of "seeing" things has a name so that meant i wasn't insane. (however, there still remain quite a few mysteries about myself that i've yet to explain... like how i'll occasionally have a super vivid dreams that predict the future... but that's another long drawn out story ^^ anyway...) that's pretty much my story ^^ i'll be happy to share more if you want. i enjoy doing so because i always figure something else about myself as i type ^^

The Wandering Poet 09-17-2012 11:26 PM

@ Fade - so hard to imagine black and passion o.o

Future predicting stuff? Hrm... I get a horrible sense of something really bad happening... when I was 10 I knew the great depression was going to hit up again in 10 years or so... o.o somehow...

[lol] I'd probably drive you crazy if I knew you... constantly asking what color things are XD

Shaylee Orla 09-18-2012 02:15 AM

I have a lot of disabilities and immune disorders, including two types of anemia, Anxiety NOS (which means there isn't a specific syndrome that it relates to), MDD, PMDD, PSTD, chronic fatigue, insomnia, chronic migraines, fibromyalgia, runner's knees (which means my bone rubs my knee caps and has nothing to do with running, COPD, GERD, hypothyroidism, food allergies, and Inter-cranial Hypertension, which means I too much cerebral-spinal fluid and it presses on the back of my eyes.

I'm pretty sure I missed one too -____- but I'm living with it. I have my own place and Social Security, though it can be harsh. Especially with my family... and sometimes I have a life, sometimes I don't. I quote the judge--I got SSI because I can't work a full week without missing a day, let alone a month. Not that I don't have the academic ability. I graduated high school at 16! Now that I'm 22 and still wading through my AA, I get frustrated, but the best treatment so far has been experience. It's hard to understand a disability unless you have one. My mom used to tell me "you could do so much better" and I just wanted her to realize that I literally couldn't access some parts of my brain due to all the messed up stuff going on.

I'm really very proud of myself for sticking it out all these years! My bad health started when I was five and I had to go into the hospital with pneumonia, so I've had a lot of that experience I was talking about. Up until 10th grade, I was pretty happy though. I could run an eleven minute mile on my meds (which is five miles an hour^^). but then some crazy stuff happened and my anxiety and PTSD got worse, but it's a reaaally long story.

IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY LAST WEEK!

As one of my resolutions, I'm trying to get more active online, I've also starting volunteering at the tutoring center once a week and I go to groups and therapy. Plus I bought 100 dollar walking shoes -+____-+ better end up using them!

I also started a blog.
An Apple for the Kitty

i did some research on why chocolate makes vulcans drunk, it was pretty cool.

And my room is getting cleaned for the first time in three months.

GO BIRTHDAY HIGH!

The Wandering Poet 09-18-2012 02:26 AM

@ Shay - damn... I know the feeling of not being able to access parts of my brain... maybe not so severe... but I tend to have a general idea of something but I can't make words with it... =/ it's so annoying...

your mom thinks you could do "so much better"? =.= well yeah... you would be a lot better off without a 2 page list of problems =/ *gives hugs*

I had pnemonia on my first birthday... so I totally know what you mean there... I've had a really bad cough since I was little that can go from very little to feeling like I'm about to die in minutes @[email protected]

Shaylee Orla 09-18-2012 02:51 AM

one of the medications I was taking, Topamax, was really awful and made my brain so numb. NEVER EVER TAKE IT>.< ANY OF YOU!

*glomps* see this is why I came back, people online are so squishy. My sisters tell me to 'calm down' when I get an anxiety or PTSD attack. I got a bad one for no reason when I dropped a plate at my mom's house, and seeing my reaction, one of them started walking around barefoot on the kitchen floor! My step-dad threw a broom at me.

I really love them I do, but they think it's totally up to me, and it's a sign of failure when I have problems. When I tell them something good, they're like "you're finally starting to be normal~" When I'm not sick (like once a month or something) we have these really beautiful family moments and my mom even took me to the Scottish Games and a shakespeare play even though she's broke because it's my birthday-month.... SO UP AND DOWN!

The ambulance driver gave me a stuffed bunny, and I only lost it when my family moved houses. Right now, my asthma has kind of leveled off, and I just can't run and be around people who smoke.

The Wandering Poet 09-18-2012 03:02 AM

Oh... numbing brain... that sounds horrible yet oddly tempting... o.o my brain never turns off... (even if I can't access anything)

Calm down? Seriously? That's the worst thing you can do... that's like saying "freaking out more!" =.=

Hey I'm sorry... but scroll up in this thread and tell me where normal is o.o we all have our problems... that's why I made this thread... to show that everyone has a problem somewhere.

Smokers... I may not have athsma... but when I get around chemicals I'll cough really bad for days...

Shaylee Orla 09-18-2012 03:09 AM

pshaa, I just have to glomp my stuffed lizard and forget about them. His name is Edward Sebastian, and he's my butler-demon in rainbow sparkles

Yeah, and the cleaner aisles in grocery stores are nasty, ne? AURG dead, run away~ save yourself. Citrus is okay, maybe, but floral stuff is no-go.

The Wandering Poet 09-18-2012 03:36 AM

[lol] Demon + Rainbow sparkles just makes me laugh when used in the same sentence XD

*pokes* You said "ne"... o.o that's an asian habit is it not?

Oh so you have heightened senses?

Shaylee Orla 09-18-2012 03:45 AM

sorry, I'm an otaku, and I live in a multicultural city, so I use my phrases. I also say schiza which is a german curse, and I call my mom Oma(shu) or Omamama when I'm mad at her.... One sister is all 'Chica' 'pequena' etc.... but we're spanish so she at least has an excuse. I call my youngest sister Vosa, which is check for wasp (though not to her face)..... maybe it's just cause I like languages so much, but I love how ne can mean different things based on how you say it- right, kay, maybe?

My nose, but mostly my tongue. I can't eat indian or other such super-spicy dishes. I love potatoes the most, they just need a little flavoring and then they taste so different! My other favorite veggies are leeks/green onions/boc choy etc, that add the right amount of kick in soup and stir fries.

The Wandering Poet 09-18-2012 03:56 AM

Ah I see... that would explain it... >w< I used to say ne a lot but that kind of dissapeared as I stopped learning Japanese.

Nose... yeah... I hate my sense of smell... I can smell sour milk before my whole family (yet they don't believe me)...
Simply put I have the senses of a pregnant person 24/7

Shaylee Orla 09-18-2012 04:02 AM

ugh milk. it smells so weird! I can only drink it for a couple of days before I start to wonder if it's okay. such a funky smell
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i studied japanese for a while, but I like linguistics better. It studies how a language is made. My final project for class was my own language^^

The Wandering Poet 09-18-2012 04:04 AM

Yeah milk does start smelling funky after a few days... I've found that certain "funkies" are okay while certain other "funkies" are the bad stages of milk that will make me sick.

Linguistics sounds like fun... >w< it's like psychology for language

Shaylee Orla 09-18-2012 04:11 AM

I love the funky smell of old garlic. My mom gets cloves and it is just so mmmm and tea! can't drink it, just smell it. leftover noodles are nasty!

That's what I think! yay for linguistics. I love Tolkien, cause he wrote three full languages and four more partial ones. He spent his whole life working on Arda (the world of middle earth) I hope I can one day come close to such passion.


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