Post by Johawn on May 13, 2013 6:36:08 GMT -5
My niece was diagnosed autistic when she was three because she wasn't talking too well and didn't mix with kids. She's now six. She doesn't talk well because her mother didn't and doesn't interact with her too much, and she didn't mix with kids because she was never given the opportunity to. When she's around other kids, she takes charge (in a nice way, talks to shy kids and stuff) and loves the attention. I know really autistic kids and adults, she's not one of them. If anything, she's a little slow and no one wants to admit it. But it was an easy diagnosis built on poor research into her life. I think a lot of mental-illness diagnoses are made in similar ways. I've said it a million times, I could likely go to a doctor and come out with a clinical depression within ten minutes by saying the right things.
As for self diagnosis, the majority of adults (I'm 26 and still think adults are other people...I mean 40+ people) that I know are horrible for this. It tends to be the lazier ones who do little in their lives and want an excuse for that, and a reason to complain. I know people of the same age range who have worked all their lives and have never taken sick days in their lives and are a lot happier at home. I know which I'd prefer to be. I know a guy of that second type who's in his early 50's and has literally never taken a sick day from age sixteen, and he recently blagged two weeks off work with "stress" just for a break. He knows he's not, they likely know he's not, but works all day, every day, always picking up unpaid overtime and I can give him a pass for skiving for a week or two. Swings and roundabout there, I guess.
I notice the people who have stuff genuinely wrong with them always seem to be the people who want to work harder and own their condition, whereas the people who want something wrong with them will use it as an excuse to do bugger all with their lives and complain about it.
As for self diagnosis, the majority of adults (I'm 26 and still think adults are other people...I mean 40+ people) that I know are horrible for this. It tends to be the lazier ones who do little in their lives and want an excuse for that, and a reason to complain. I know people of the same age range who have worked all their lives and have never taken sick days in their lives and are a lot happier at home. I know which I'd prefer to be. I know a guy of that second type who's in his early 50's and has literally never taken a sick day from age sixteen, and he recently blagged two weeks off work with "stress" just for a break. He knows he's not, they likely know he's not, but works all day, every day, always picking up unpaid overtime and I can give him a pass for skiving for a week or two. Swings and roundabout there, I guess.
I notice the people who have stuff genuinely wrong with them always seem to be the people who want to work harder and own their condition, whereas the people who want something wrong with them will use it as an excuse to do bugger all with their lives and complain about it.
