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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 709975" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Kaliko, I am glad you are making progress. </p><p></p><p>I am nearly 57 years old, Autistic, and have bipolar disorder. (Yes. Both sides of the family peed in my gene pool.)</p><p></p><p>For me, as a child, moving lights and shadows were not only horribly distracting, they made me violently nauseous. Tags? To this day I cut them out of my clothing.</p><p></p><p>I still stimulant, but have trained myself to minimize the movements.</p><p></p><p>I never was physically violent, though engaged in some light self-abuse as an infant and toddler out of feeling that i was "bad" because I couldn't do things "right". (I also have some physical issues). Instead of violence, I either shut down completely, or bolted and hid. (I had to be dug out of more clothing racks...)</p><p></p><p></p><p>What I do want to tell you is that I had a successful career in Information Technology at the middle mgmt level (IT allows for some "quirkiness" if not downright "wierdity".), in several facets of the field. </p><p></p><p>I did drop out of high school, am self educated. I do have the very high IQ that sometimes goes along with this, along with poor executive functioning and a doozy of a Learning Disability (LD) in math, also things that can go along with ASDs. </p><p></p><p>I have, as you may have guessed from the above, pretty serious sensory disorders, aggravated because I am aging, fat, now diabetic, and starting to deal with neuropathy in one foot. I mean, seams in socks made me nuts when i was a kid, but now...?!?</p><p></p><p>I married my HS sweetheart after dating him for 4 years and living with him for 2. Sadly, he died in '02, and we were unable to have children.</p><p></p><p>However, had we had children, while they would likely have been a bit "difficult", I think my late husband and i would've done a good job of raising them.</p><p></p><p>I just want to let you know that Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) folks, with the proper interventions both at home and in the classroom environment, can live happy, productive lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 709975, member: 1963"] Kaliko, I am glad you are making progress. I am nearly 57 years old, Autistic, and have bipolar disorder. (Yes. Both sides of the family peed in my gene pool.) For me, as a child, moving lights and shadows were not only horribly distracting, they made me violently nauseous. Tags? To this day I cut them out of my clothing. I still stimulant, but have trained myself to minimize the movements. I never was physically violent, though engaged in some light self-abuse as an infant and toddler out of feeling that i was "bad" because I couldn't do things "right". (I also have some physical issues). Instead of violence, I either shut down completely, or bolted and hid. (I had to be dug out of more clothing racks...) What I do want to tell you is that I had a successful career in Information Technology at the middle mgmt level (IT allows for some "quirkiness" if not downright "wierdity".), in several facets of the field. I did drop out of high school, am self educated. I do have the very high IQ that sometimes goes along with this, along with poor executive functioning and a doozy of a Learning Disability (LD) in math, also things that can go along with ASDs. I have, as you may have guessed from the above, pretty serious sensory disorders, aggravated because I am aging, fat, now diabetic, and starting to deal with neuropathy in one foot. I mean, seams in socks made me nuts when i was a kid, but now...?!? I married my HS sweetheart after dating him for 4 years and living with him for 2. Sadly, he died in '02, and we were unable to have children. However, had we had children, while they would likely have been a bit "difficult", I think my late husband and i would've done a good job of raising them. I just want to let you know that Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) folks, with the proper interventions both at home and in the classroom environment, can live happy, productive lives. [/QUOTE]
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