Is there a stigma attached to mental health?

[odeon]

  Only one person at my job knows, mostly because I question the dx myself and wonder if I have any right
  to claim it.  I have gotten very socially skilled, largely through having the same workplace for so many years and spending
  all that time observing the same people in every mood and situation.  I sometimes think if I were really on the spectrum,
  I wouldn't have the ability to acquire social skills.  Also, I am inarticulate at explaining autism and what aspects of it
  I actually have.  Maybe I'm a fraud.  I'm more afraid of being a fraud than I ever was of being on the spectrum. 

I don't think you are a fraud. It is possible to actively acquire skills. They did not come "naturally". But no matter what, you are a treasure. And you probably are at work too.

  Dear cow, I will take your word for it.    

You are one of us, CBC.

Don't forget, we are the socially able aspergic elite.

You're not. 

[Semicolon]

  Only one person at my job knows, mostly because I question the dx myself and wonder if I have any right
  to claim it.  I have gotten very socially skilled, largely through having the same workplace for so many years and spending
  all that time observing the same people in every mood and situation.  I sometimes think if I were really on the spectrum,
  I wouldn't have the ability to acquire social skills.  Also, I am inarticulate at explaining autism and what aspects of it
  I actually have.  Maybe I'm a fraud.  I'm more afraid of being a fraud than I ever was of being on the spectrum. 

I don't think you are a fraud. It is possible to actively acquire skills. They did not come "naturally". But no matter what, you are a treasure. And you probably are at work too.

  Dear cow, I will take your word for it.    

You are one of us, CBC.

Don't forget, we are the socially able aspergic elite.

You're not. 

I have a title and a decoder ring that say otherwise.

[odeon]

Your title doesn't mention the elite.

[Semicolon]

Your title doesn't mention the elite.

"The Punctuated Equilibrium Of The Aspie Elite"

[odeon]

Your title doesn't mention the elite.

"The Punctuated Equilibrium Of The Aspie Elite"

Bloody hell, I read the text below the avatar. I humbly apologise for my apparent lack of reading comprehension.

[Semicolon]

Your title doesn't mention the elite.

"The Punctuated Equilibrium Of The Aspie Elite"

Bloody hell, I read the text below the avatar. I humbly apologise for my apparent lack of reading comprehension.

[RageBeoulve]

u suck niggers I am real supersand

[Jesse]

Of course there is. once your not like someone else people get angry

[RageBeoulve]

Of course there is. once your not like someone else people get angry

Darn you jesse you am no real supersand

["couldbecousin"]

Of course there is. once your not like someone else people get angry

Darn you jesse you am no real supersand

  Indeed not, he is a baby giraffe! 

[renaeden]

Borderline Personality Disorder suffers from stigma. Within the mental health system. I have heard a patient say about another patient, "Stay away from her, she has BPD."

Takes ages to get any treatment for it. I was on a list to get DBT or schema therapy. I went to the preliminary interview back in April and haven't heard anything since. And stupid me lost their number. I heard through my uni tutor that the treatment has already started. Sucks to be me.

[神]

Yes, stay away from BPD diagnosed women and relationships. It is too unpredictable. Resort to rational prejudice.

In my experience, BPD is 'overdiagnosed' nowadays. I have met many people who don't really qualify for the diagnosis and wouldn't have been diagnosed 10-20 years back for that reason. Diagnosing has gotten to a whole new level. One person here was diagnosed with tobacco addiction and atypical anorexia recently, for having lost a bit of weight fast and being a smoker .. Not to mention that person is a very moderate smoker with ideal BMI.

So probably the majority of people with the diagnosis are not actually the embodiment of evil. If the women appear unusually (sexually) attractive for reasons not entirely apparent, I suggest that is the biggest warning sign and one of the most noticeable warning signs that any woman has the evil kind of BPD, if you have ever experienced it and know what I mean exactly.

There are enough masochists and other BPD people in the world they can have relationships with. Also studies show: BPD people do way better in relationships with their own kind.

[Jack]

Troll.

[神]

Troll.

[Jack]

I'm clearly not a troll. You're obviously trolling Renaeden; she hasn't done anything to you.