The Dane and his mind

[WildC]

Hello.

I'm some guy you'll never meet 'cause he's too caught up in his own mind to walk up and say hi.

I've been stalking this forum for a while, only signed up recently and haven't really posted anything important or insightful, and doubt I ever will. The main reason I'm posting this is because I have too much pent-up anxiety/frustration that needs an outlet, as happens from time to time.

I'm currently an engineering student, but I tend to skip classes because I don't enjoy the social interaction there and I've got some fairly annoying sleep deprivation and attention issues that makes it impossible for me to pay attention in class these days. The textbooks are great though.

I'm waiting for an appointment with a neurologist that has been postponed 'till next month in order to possibly be told that I "suffer" from Aspergers, a form of autism. The real reason I'm going there is just to get an easy way to see a psychologist and see where that leads. Maybe it'll lead nowhere, but it's worth a shot.

I've always had a phobia towards medication, but these days I'm not entirely sure if I want to be drugged up to get rid of some of the side-effects of being me (sleep and attention issues, depression, mainly).


I've started all the sections of this post with "I" so far, makes me feel a bit selfcentered. Guess that's what I care about right now, my own mental state. Hm.

A year ago I spent 4 months travelling Central America and the US, best time of my life, the freedom to just do what you feel like and having so much time to yourself and your thoughts. It's amazing, but sometimes it does get quite lonely because it's hard to find people who you can talk to beyond the completely shallow level, and because it's hard to get in touch with people when your speech is dispassionate and you're limited to short sentences that don't properly express what you want to convey. Ah, the complexity of human relations.

Well, I ramble. Feel free to post (negative) criticism, if any, nothing like being shown a new angle at something.

Also, has anyone here been diagnosed with Aspergers or know anyone who has, and in the latter case, do they resemble INTP types? Some of the traits seem to overlap.

 

[Wisp]

Ah. I know someone with Aspergers. I know what you mean about similarities. All I can say is, don't stress yourself too much, don't fail school, and enough time will blow the issue into happier times. Nice to meetcha, Dane. Hope you stay a while.

 

[loveofreason]

Hi WildC, glad to officially 'meet' you.

I think it's quite therapeutic to disgorge the contents of ones mind here. I'd guess few of us take the opportunity to be listened to in real life. This is far less scary.

 

[Ermine]

Welcome!

Funny I've seemed to always have a phobia of medication too, even though I seldom need anything beyond pain relievers and antihistamines.

I didn't originally know that Asperger's was a form of autism. My sister has severe autism and it's sometimes interesting to wonder what's going inside her head and who she is under her inability, perhaps disinterest, to communicate. But really, what is autism if not having a different perspective and way of thinking that is so strong and so different that it's handicapping? Hope everything works out for you.

 

[Wisp]

The internet is a (kind of) risk-less vent for olur thoughts... at least we can't see other's weird looks here...

 

[WildC]

Which definition of the word olur do you abide by? I was unable to find a match for it in any dictionary I checked, other than as a translation of a turkish word meaning "ok".

 

[Wisp]

Olur? I haven't heard of that one...

 

[WildC]

You're the one that wrote it. Might want to look over your post before mine and see if it's just a spelling error then.

 

[Ermine]

Olur means "our" in Typo.

 

[Cabbo Pearimo]

badum bum psssshhhhh.

 

[WildC]

I blatantly did not notice. Thanks Fernando.

I feel silly now.

 

[Wisp]

*epic facepalm*