Roll Call Twelve

It's okay to ask. I've been doing better lately. Just trying to take things one day at a time.

I have academic accommodations for exams. It helps.

My anti-anxiety medication is an SSRI called Cipralex. I have tried benzodiazepines without much success. The extreme somnolence and memory loss isn't acceptable.

I am glad your anxiety has improved.

My psychiatrist suspects I have a mild LD. I seem to have problems with reading and comprehension, but it may be due to my cognitive style and anxiety. Perhaps some of this is a lingering effect of the psychosis I had. I don't know what to think. This is something I need to look into. If I mention it to my psychiatrist I am scared she is going to tell me I leave school.

In the lecture hall I sit in the front row, so I don't have to smell people and watch them play on their laptops.

When I was younger, I thrived on a schedule. At the moment I have no schedule at home. I think a lot of this has to do with grossly underestimating the amount of time I need to get things done and procrastination. Sometimes I can be very lazy.

Wow, 250 guests! Is that accurate?

I think it said 25?

Safari is now listing 234. The Autism and Asperger forum once listed 899.

Omg! Now it says 238! I wonder if this is a glitch or accurate! Strange! Sharp eye lil didgee!

on ce thought i had aspergers

What do you think about that now, newtus?

I used to think that just because I see and hear things it automatically meant I had sz, but now I know that's not true, and I understand how its different.

i think i was possibly misinterpreting my sz for aspergers-like traits

i thought that cuz i have severe trouble making eye contact. people sometimes think im blind/deaf cuz i dont look anyone in the eye. i was also unnaturally quiet as a child. still am. and also social deficits. i also wanted able to dress appropriately since a child. some other stuff.

i think maybe it was all sz stuff because i never got "pegged" excuse my term - as having aspergers. i also read if u either have 1 or the other. as the dsm says. even though some have both its not likely.

What's up in your world costello?

It must be accurate. Initially I thought it was a glitch because the count is usually between 25 to 30. I guess more people use the internet or visit this site on a Friday evening.

Yea...but I've been here lots of fri nights and I've never seen it go up like this. Maybe the site is being audited for some purpose? I dunno.

Audited? What do you mean?

Like that a large number of people were invited tonight either with a psychological teaching purpose or with an IT learning purpose? Something like that? It wasn't a fully formed idea. Just a thought. Could be we were just really super popular tonight! I don't know. I think it will be cool if we get new members that are active from such a big visitor night.

That makes sense. Thanks.

I am trying to do a math assignment and nothing is getting through. My head isn't into at all.

Anyone know trigonometry?

Question: A ladder leans up against a building at an angle of 65° with the ground. If the ladder is 5 metres long, how far up the building does it reach? Assume all angles in this triangle are less than 90 degrees.

If this question is from a college text book the answer is most likely in the back.

The answer is 4.5. Unfortunately there is no full answer. I tried to work backwards but I cannot figure it out. Usually a third piece of information is provided but all I got is one side and one angle. It is not a right angle triangle so I cannot determine the second angle with simple math. The only way I got 4.5 was sin65 x 5 the length of the side.

I just noticed it was in meters. I only know inches and feet so I wouldn't have been much help anyways. Do you have a classmate you could ask?

No. Thanks anyways. I don't think this math is getting through tonight.

The directions were wrong. No wonder I could not figure out this straight forward problem. My triangle was a right angle triangle and not an oblique triangle.

@lil didgee - I don't know if it would have helped you, but I would have drawn a picture to figure this sort of thing out. I would have scaled it from 5 meters to 5cm to make it reasonable to draw, and worked it out that way. I did all right at trig but I don't know if it would come back to me or not if I set out to work a lesson or test.

sometimes i feel like im not worthy to complain about my issues. like their too small compared to some peoples

Awh newtus

Everyone is worthy to express themselves on this forum. No issue is too small and everyone has different struggles.

i meant in general. in real life.

i think my dad thinks im ok because my behavior has calmed down recently. and that could change...

...but i have extremely strong paranoia everyday. it doesnt go away...


and um
i think its time i open up about this...
ive been struggling with something for a very very very long times. years...

but um...i do things 3 or 5 or 7 times. sometimes 1. touch the door 3 times. touch handles 3 times. smoke my cigarettes 3 inhales. flush the toilet once. wring my hands when i wash them 3 times. pull 3 hairs. etc stuff like that. i set my volume on tvs and odd number.

i believe that since 7 is the number of God and 1 - cuz alpha and omega - that he will bless me immediately if i do things an odd number of times but no more than 7 and try to do more than 1. i consider things in even numbers to be evil. and of the devil incarnate.

i fear doing things in even numbers. because i consider it to be evil and i think ill be considered evil by God and not be blessed. i consider people evil who do things in even numbers and consider them to be of the devil.