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Recent content by paul64

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    A Confusing Revolutiuon at 59

    That's good, specific, usable advice. Thanks much!
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    A Confusing Revolutiuon at 59

    My whole life has been defined by a constant brutalizing inner debate that follows on contributions by my parents, later friends, girlfriends, wife, etc.: "What's wrong with you?" 1. Am I evil? 2. Stupid? 4. Lazy? 5. Crazy? 6. Just don't care? Now, at 59, "What's wrong with me?" has become...
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    Am I the only one who can’t write in cursive?

    I almost cannot write legibly whether it's cursive or printing. It takes total concentation. I had to retake penmenship in school, I remember. Ah, such a proud moment.
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    What to actually say?

    I suck at this, too, but asking questions to keep the focus on the other person sometimes works.
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    Dating, Addiction & A&E Biography - adult situations!

    I'm self- and friend-diagnosed as of a couple of months ago and at age 58. I'm almost certain it answers the open questions I used to slot into various psych diagnoses, though I have a couple of those, too. And I got through life 'til a few years back with alcohol, drugs or both, or...
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    Self-diag Aspie at age 58

    That's interesting. Exactly. At around 30, I was becoming incapable of maintaining the alcoholic lifestyle, too, but I eventually found my way a benzodiazepine habit that masked everything -- including the benzodiazepine habit! -- and allowed me to socialize as long as I was on it, of course...
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    Comment by 'paul64' in 'Day 2'

    I just reached my self-diagnosis by a similar route and find it resolving almost all the mysterious events not explained by substances, family environment or what was my favorite debate of "am I evil or just a fng idiot?" It has been fairly emotional just thinking about letting go my number one...
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    Self-diag Aspie at age 58

    Thanks all. This diagnosis does resolve so many little mysteries. Look forward to many happy exchanges.
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    Self-diag Aspie at age 58

    It was a diagnosis a long time coming as I had always been looking under the mental health umbrella, where I did finally identify the mainly "O" OCD at 25. By then, I was an alcoholic a dozen years into the habit. There many weird one-off episodes with me, a litany of discarded special...
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