Your personal illness/disorder/...?

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2004-02-29 07:30pm

Nathan F wrote:Nothing that I know of currently.

Ditto.

Those who grew up in the 80's like me:

Were all these kid disorder drugs around and I just not know about them, or did the other kids just have to cope with life like we did?

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-02-29 07:35pm

jegs2 wrote:
Nathan F wrote:Nothing that I know of currently.
Ditto.

And yet you still joined the Army? Are you positive, sir?

jeg2 wrote:Were all these kid disorder drugs around and I just not know about them, or did the other kids just have to cope with life like we did?

I'm guessing maybe the second?

I wonder how kids did get by without the current range of drugs...

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-02-29 07:43pm

jegs2 wrote:
Nathan F wrote:Nothing that I know of currently.
Ditto.

Those who grew up in the 80's like me:

Were all these kid disorder drugs around and I just not know about them, or did the other kids just have to cope with life like we did?

Yes, I find it amazing how many people here have so much apparently wrong with them.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-29 07:45pm

Geeks have geek disorders. Not to worry, someday we will rule the world, at which point we can declare normalcy a disease.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-29 07:49pm

Genetic diversity means more stuff going wrong and more people to exhibit those disorders.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-02-29 09:10pm

Inside a decade? There's a lot of social shit going on there.

As for myself, I have personality eccentricities, but given that a personality disorder is defined as that which interferes with one's ability to function in a healthy manner, I don't have anything.

The closest I border on is obviously Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disroder, but I don't actually have it.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-02-29 09:41pm

Some people think I'm paranoid...but to me it's just good sense & precautions since there are people out to get me. Other than that I've suffered one too many concussions so my brain doesn't work quite as well as it used to, looking at all my brainscans and tests over the years is somewhat troubling. Still have a bit of a speach impediment when I get too excited or emotional, stutter, stutter, fumble fumble, wtf was I again, something like that.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-02-29 09:52pm

jegs:
Ritalin's been around since the late 60's, the others, I dunno.

Me, Type 1 Diabetes, without insulin I have a lifespan of about 36-48 hours.

jairyn_1 · Post by **jairyn_1** » 2004-02-29 10:29pm

jegs2 wrote:
Nathan F wrote:Nothing that I know of currently.
Ditto.

Those who grew up in the 80's like me:

Were all these kid disorder drugs around and I just not know about them, or did the other kids just have to cope with life like we did?

No, I came from a mentally and physically fucked family.

I could be a hypochondriac and list the other things that are wrong with me.. that one of the places my OCD REALLY kicks in.. >_>

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-02-29 11:50pm

There's nothing physically wrong with me, but I have various beliefs that might be wrongly attributed to some BS disease if I were to see a psychiatrist.

What does this "Asperger's" thing that many people seem to have do to you? I never heard of it before Rogue 9 said he had it in multiple threads.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 12:11am

Seggybop wrote:What does this "Asperger's" thing that many people seem to have do to you? I never heard of it before Rogue 9 said he had it in multiple threads.

Or just look up. I explained. Its a form of high functioning autism. I'm autistic, but not to the classic severe degree that most people think of when they think autism. (That more closely describes one of my cousins.) The symptoms are many, varied, and not readily obvious unless you know what you're looking for. I have very little in the way of social skills; what most people know instinctively about interacting with others I have to actively try to learn like I'd try to learn high end mathematics. People are unpredictable, and that poses major problems for me because I like reliable patterns. I can sit down and concentrate on a single task for hours, never wavering. But I don't choose what it is; the fit strikes me and I concentrate on whatever I happen to be doing at the time to the exclusion of other activities. For instance, I could start concentrating on writing this post, and I wouldn't stop until I'd described every little aspect of the disorder. In fact, I'm going to stop now before that happens, because that would be a loooong post.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-03-01 12:11am

I believe it is a high-functioning form of autism.

EDIT: Shit! What are the odds of that?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 12:14am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:I believe it is a high-functioning form of autism.

EDIT: Shit! What are the odds of that?

Pretty good, actually, given that he asked the question and there are a lot of people logged on right now.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2004-03-01 01:06am

Menier's Syndrome, which is affecting both my ears.

Because of MS I have: tinnitus (in both ears)
45% hearing in the right ear
45% balance in the right ear (If I don't pay attention I sometimes would walk like someone who is slightly drunk)
Migraines
extreme vertigo

Other than that, I am fat, depressed and wear glasses.

SDSDSMSB....

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-03-01 01:13am

Acid reflux. If I go long enough without my medication, it feels like I'm having a heart attack.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-03-01 01:15am

Geez... I suppose I'm a bit overweight. Not severely or in a way that impacts my activity in any way, but I feel down right healthy after reading this thread. I've got no social problems, no medical problems except a history of migraines (which I haven't had in years), have slightly better than 20/20 vision... I have a slight stutter, but other than that, I'm clean.

So I think I will mock the rest of you.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 01:18am

Someday the geeks will rule the world and then Aspergers will be recognized as the advantage that it is! Normalcy shall be declared a disease! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[size=0]Though seriously, it does have its advantages. One doctor from the UK (I forget his name) gave a seminar on it in Indianapolis, and he said that he'd feel safer if the flight mechanic for the airplane he was taking home had Asperger's because one of the symptoms is perfectionism and minute attention to detail.[/size]

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-03-01 01:22am

Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy.

Essentially I shake a lot, and risk seizures. My medication makes me shake more.

It's thought the explanation for all of this is a "short circuit" in my brain.

I also have excessive earwax.

Slayen · Post by **Slayen** » 2004-03-01 01:26am

.... Wow

Three people on this board have Asperger's? Guess it more common than i thought. I also have Asperger's Syndrome and know two others who also have it.

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-03-01 01:31am

ADD + Clinical Depression = one very screwy person.

Namely, me.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 01:43am

Slayen wrote:.... Wow

Three people on this board have Asperger's? Guess it more common than i thought. I also have Asperger's Syndrome and know two others who also have it.

Actually, its unofficially known as Geek Disorder for a reason. I'd figure that a higher percentage of people here would have it than among the general population.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-03-01 11:40am

Well... I have some very mild form of epilepsy, but its effects are completely nullified due to my medication.... I also use glasses and my skin isn't completely clean.

I also have various strange phobias, but I'm not sure whether they qualify as "disorders".

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-03-01 11:55am

im diagnosed with nothing... cept that my joints are kinda loose and stretchy and i can twist my leg round and sit it under my ribs... does that count?

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2004-03-01 01:20pm

ADHD (very mild)

Overweight (working on correcting this)

Chunk of cartilage floating around in my knee joint (which hurts like a total bastard when it gets caught in the joint)

Oh and my digestive system can't handle overly greasy food anymore since I had my gall bladder out.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-03-01 01:31pm

Dyspraxia

Overweight

realy weak eyesight

slightly deaf in one ear

Bad balance.

Weak Bones