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10:35pm November 29, 2013

 I used to be one of those obnoxious people who told people with ADD that ADD didn't exist.

youneedacat:

Because they’d tell me the traits of ADD and I’d say “I have those, and I’m not diagnosed, so it must be normal…”

*headdesk*

I think some people do the same thing with autism these days, for the same reasons.

(I’m not sure if I actually have ADD, or if I just have many of…

Holy SHIT, I knew about high grade and low grade but I hadn’t heard the control explanation.  That may explain a lot about how and when I got labeled low-functioning, which has always puzzled me.  I would have been, at that point, exceedingly hard to control.

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    I’m pretty sure the following ramble about my brain isn’t exactly relevant to this, but it’s what this makes me think...
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  5. themathieautie reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Fear and insecurity can make people think and say all kinds of crappy things even knowing those things aren’t true. And...
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    Holy SHIT, I knew about high grade and low grade but I hadn’t heard the control explanation. That may explain a lot...
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  8. samaeloliver reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    omg I think it’s the same with my mom and autism. We share a lot of traits which for me are autistic (I’m not sure if...
  9. seasidehare reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I had some of that today, from some randoms on a friend’s FB post. It was infuriating and exhausting.
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    In ACI for ASAN, the topic came up of the origin of the terms “high-functioning” and “low-functioning”. Originally,...
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