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Active? Ha! I’ve been anything but active around here lately. I keep trying to write more, but there’s not really much happening right now.

Things are finally starting to happen on the medical front. I’ve talked to a new doctor, and he was of the opinion that whatever ailed me, it sure wasn’t a depression — something my previous doc was hellbent on. So now I’m off the meds, and I already feel better.

He was also of the opinion that while I showed some characteristics (I can’t really call it symptoms, since I don’t see it as an illness; merely a non-normative state of mind) of Asperger’s syndrome, it wasn’t severe enough to call it AS proper. So right now it’s merely an autistic spectrum disorder until they’ve figured out some letter acronym that fits me. And I don’t really agree with the “disorder” part either.

The number of autistic traits present determines the severity of autism in the individual. These autistic traits may be beneficial for some disciplines like science, mathematics, engineering. Wikipedia

I can’t say that I have a very big interest in the various sciences, but I do recall having a pretty easy time grasping the concepts back in school, while others struggled with it.

I talked to a psychologist for a bit last week and did a computerized personality test; next Monday I’m meeting him again for a followup on what the test says about me.

Since I’m pretty interested in informatics, I pointed out several problems with that computerized test. Whoever designed the application clearly wasn’t a designer proper. The questions were of a “yes/no” type, but many questions were formulated so that answering no made the sentence a double negation. That confused me a lot. It would have been a lot clearer if the options were “I agree” and “I do not agree”.

And now I’m off for bed. I’ll try to write more frequently around here now.