[-jimi-]

I could just as well post in ADHD but I'll put this here. I have aspergers and ADD. Something I am tired of is the disability talk, like there are only negatives. But if I was to focus on the negative stuff, I still get tired of something. How symptoms are from other people's point of view. In both the case of aspergers and ADD.

So with ADD, it is a deficit in attention. No it isn't! So bull. That is not at all the core of ADD, that is just what might show up in a school environment. And with aspergers, it is only a social disability, right? Nope, wrong wrong wrong!

What troubles ME? The poor executive functioning. The lack of sense of time. The sense of constant overload and stress, the crashes from that.

But it is like if I show good attention and decent social skills (which I actually HAVE done through life), they couldn't care less about OTHER issues which might be worse for ME.

When someone is depressed the cure isn't to make that person smile and still feel like crap. With ADD and aspergers, if you don't show the symptoms they expect, your JUUUST FIIINE. Even when your life is falling apart.

[leejosepho]

Originally Posted by -jimi-

What troubles ME? The poor executive functioning. The lack of sense of time. The sense of constant overload and stress, the crashes from that.

Same here, and you are quite correct: Hardly anyone understands.

[Nike007]

I do struggle a lot with social things, mainly the relationship aspect of social things, as it's hard for me to understand what others want in a relationship and what's/what's not appropriate for me to do/say.

But yes, I do understand the executive function deficits. I hate my issues with working memory. I will always leave an area, realize I forgot something, go back, then remember I forgot another thing, grab that, leave again, and then remember I forgot the thing I originally forgot, and then get it. This may repeat more, but for simplicity sake. This is apparently part of my LD, but I feel it may be AD/HD instead of a LD but...

But I do understand what you mean. There needs to be more research or more people focusing on "secondary" characteristics of these conditions, and treatments for these. I feel that the neurodevelopmental conditions like AD/HD and ASD have a basic description of what is there, but there is so much more than that. One day I hope they change it.