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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 699829" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I was diagnosed with my mess at 44 yrs of age, with a strong hereditary pattern of both bipolar on one side of the family and autism.</p><p></p><p>However, when I first sought the help of a psychiatrist, I was 2x diagnosed as having ADHD and severe depression and medicated for those. Needless to say, that was not pretty.</p><p></p><p>During the family study, which involved a multi-disciplinary evaluation, I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism and bipolar disorder, which fit as my late father and my sister were BiPolar (BP), my mother, her brother and her father were all on the spectrum, and all of us, myself included, possessed of scary high IQs. Most of our difficulies from the autism are social, though I have a Learning Disability (LD) in math, my mother cannot learn PCs, though was a mainframe goddess, my uncle was part of the programming team that built the software the made the moon launch happen, and my grandfather was a brilliant rabbi and religious scholar (and a complete arsehole.)</p><p></p><p>I've also used marijuana. Quite heavily for a couple of years in my mid-teens. I feel it made my social issues worse, but do not feel it made or cause autistic sx to "come out". The reason is aggravated my social issues is that I'm one of the small percentage of people for who mj causes anxiety and paranoia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 699829, member: 1963"] I was diagnosed with my mess at 44 yrs of age, with a strong hereditary pattern of both bipolar on one side of the family and autism. However, when I first sought the help of a psychiatrist, I was 2x diagnosed as having ADHD and severe depression and medicated for those. Needless to say, that was not pretty. During the family study, which involved a multi-disciplinary evaluation, I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism and bipolar disorder, which fit as my late father and my sister were BiPolar (BP), my mother, her brother and her father were all on the spectrum, and all of us, myself included, possessed of scary high IQs. Most of our difficulies from the autism are social, though I have a Learning Disability (LD) in math, my mother cannot learn PCs, though was a mainframe goddess, my uncle was part of the programming team that built the software the made the moon launch happen, and my grandfather was a brilliant rabbi and religious scholar (and a complete arsehole.) I've also used marijuana. Quite heavily for a couple of years in my mid-teens. I feel it made my social issues worse, but do not feel it made or cause autistic sx to "come out". The reason is aggravated my social issues is that I'm one of the small percentage of people for who mj causes anxiety and paranoia. [/QUOTE]
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