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Originally Posted by Redsoft
With these things in mind and/or whatever else suits your fancy... - When you think of yourself, aside from SPD, what stands out? The "three words to describe yourself" type thing.
- Can you remember a time before onset, or do you think it's always been there?
- What do others see? What have they observed? What do they like?
- Which pieces of SPD or your respective individual personality have given you the biggest hardships/problems/stressors socially or otherwise? Which have given advantages?
- What pieces of you contradict your SPD dx?
- What are your favorite parts? Your least favorite?
- What do you like to do? If you work, what is your job?
- Do you care that you're different? Do you wish you didn't have SPD?
- Growing up (or presently), did you feel a need to be individual, or a greater desire for conformity? Or did you not care about one way or another?
- What do you want to improve?
- What makes you want to table-flip?
I'm just curious about how much we are or aren't different from each other with a disorder that presents as very black and white for people that tend to see in shades of grey.
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1. Some say I'm "smart," and they're the stupid ones.
2. Hard to say. I always had SPD traits. Then I was looked at as more normal during a couple of years, but the school counselors made me see them for therapy. Then, I contracted schizophrenia with a bunch of negative symptoms. I've never recovered.
3. Smart and nice but eccentric.
4. Everyone thinks I'm weird when I interact as I would prefer people to interact with me.
5. I can get a long with others, but probably they just need me for help in certain tutoring issues.
6. I don't need people, and I'm never lonely. I dislike my inability to maintain a job.
7. I like staring at the wall and thinking. I have no job.
8. I only care; because, others care.
9. Didn't care. I was teased for being different though, and I didn't care about that either.
10. Career opportunities.
11. Nothing.