News of Developmental Disorders

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I have currently found myself to be host and understanding that I have also have Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple alters) but I also have memories of having a total phobia of speaking at school when I was last host. (around 11-13yrs old..body is now in its 50's).

We have had many different hosts after me (there are 12 alters in our system) including one that was deaf and only signed (I believe to get ...

Some concerns with diagnostic criteria C for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social (Pragmatic) and other Commutation Disorders



Diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder:


A. Persistent deficits in social communication and social
interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by all of
the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative,
not exhaustive; see text):

1. Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, ranging, for
example, from abnormal social approach and failure of
normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of ...

I know that my experience is probably identical to a lot of the people who post here so I'll keep it brief and cut out the details.

- I've always struggled to focus on menial tasks

- Simple homework assignments like reading logs would drive me nearly to tears when I was young despite being so damn easy.

- Sitting down to work on stuff has always been agonizing. The only reason I did well ...

This is the 'Stammer Jammer', which was invented over 20 years ago (maybe 30 years ago), and was a simple device that used a microphone, and headphones to play a noise into your ear, whenever you started to talk.
On the market today (2023) there are three or four devices which play a delayed and higher pitch version of your own voice into your ear. I have been looking at the reviews of these devices, ...

I hope it doesn't sound vain, but I used to be called a prodigy. I used to be great at everything I touched, as long as it did not need group activity. I've been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD at childhood and severe depression in adulthood. My psychologist says my case is way too complicated to be just depression, OCD and ADHD. But nonetheless, I've lost interest in every activity I used to be good ...

Pls excuse my bad grammar, i am not a native english speaker. This will be a long post so i apologize in advance.

Hi, i wanted to ask for advice on this forum if i actually have aspergers or not. I was officially diagnosed as a child, but i don't think i actually have it. I am seriously confused about all this, going from thinking i might have it to believing i definitely don't. I ...

I need help understanding something.

I’m getting an evaluation done on may 1st. What should I excpect in my evaluation?

I read up on this, but nothing really is said to explain much.

If I try to do something like a restaurant job, or a hotel front desk job, I get so frustrated because I can't concentrate. I just blank out and can't get anything done. The only two fields I have trained my mind to like are Cannabis and Music. I am 26 years old and just now going to college in the fall, for Cannabis Cultivation. Finally putting my life together. It was tough living in ...

For some time now I have felt the need to know / research what interests me, almost obsessively, and to be more involved / not miss opportunities in the sector that I find interesting.
However, the search and the amount of information can become overwhelming to such an extent that it becomes not a pleasant thing but rather creates confusion.
This is also due to the high number of interests.

To give an example, I ...

Just to start with, I'm not asking for a diagnosis, I just want to know how reasonable you guys think it would be to reconsider the possibility of having ADHD, or if there's any other disorder than can cause it.

So I don't drink caffeine much now, but use to drink caffeine a lot when I was younger. I don't have the best memories of my younger years, but I don't remember ever reacting to ...