Same bloody picture for loads and loads of discussion pages...maybe its someone's mum who works for Rewardia? ...maybe there should just be a sign saying "run out of ideas"? Edited 10-Apr-22 21:32pm

The older I get, the more of these types of things come up...hindsight...its a wonderful thing! .....although you could be weird as well...... Edited 10-Apr-22 21:22pm

I never understood how horrific things could happen in our history. How people could stand by and just let it happen. Wars, innocent people in jail, people being denied human rights. Adulthood, interactions with the naive and ruthless have taught me just how sadly really easily it is done. There are those who have been treated horribly consistently and turn bad or do so under desperate survival (we are all capable of this under the right circumstances), those who see the truth but have little power to do anything because the majority of the population deny it even happens. If you think that life is choice and only bad things happen to bad people then you are actively contributing to the largest of societies problems. I know this because my life is being ruined by that very assumption - there are no laws to protect you when people deny the worst is even possible of happening... Truth is I'm not the only one. Human rights shouldn't be taken by anyone or anything including police, a pandemic, the justice system, a mental institution, education system or any government run service. You won't care until its you.

No not really. Life is just life. It has good and bad moments and confusing ones.

Found out what liars my parents were, why they treated me like they did, how their marriage and my birth was all a lie and the list goes on.

That my father had bad bones and now so do I, thanks Dad

it was interesting

HEADS UP TO ALL SURVEY TAKERS. There is a scam artist out there preying survey takers . I got a letter wit a shady letter and what looks like a live check and instructions telling me to deposit the check at a bank that uses Bitcoin and text a number "MISSION COMPLETE" only and to keep $500.00 for my fee. I would then get instructions to do a survey on banks that take bitcoin. This letter had horrible grammar , di not address me by name, no contact name and the address on the fedex envelope in to a carpet cleaning business in Florida. I have no idea how they got my home address but they knew i did surveys online.

everyone is weird

nup

I think there is far too much Pigeon-holing of people which is, in my opinion, very, very dangerous for it can, and, indeed has been proven to be used to unfairly discriminate against people. Everyone is Different and for that we can be very thankful. Just think how unbelievably Boring the world would be if we were all the same! Ok, so we think we or someone else is a bit weird. So what? Does that make them, or us, inferior? Of course not. I worked with one of the weirdest people I think I have ever met. He used to drive us mad at times BUT he was quite simply absolutely Brilliant when it came to work and if anyone had a problem they could not solve he was the man to go to. There was no arrogance, no demeaning any of us because we could not get to the bottom of the problem. As I said he was the weirdest person i have ever known but I loved (platonically) him and so did everyone else. We were heart-broken when he died. He also had the most wonderful sense of Humour! If we think ourselves a bit weird, mad, deranged or that others are, so what? It is not important, just enjoy it.

I have a compulsive disorder that I always thought made me seem strange. I have to do something in a way that satisfies me or I have to keep doing it. It's annoying but I just can't seem to stop doing it.

A medical condition which I had from birth by not diagnosed until 24years ago, (in my 60"s). Doing research on the condition it explains a lot to the learning disabilities I had at school. All i got from the school he is lazy and need to try harder but I am talking about the New Zealand education system in the 60's &70's

Unremarkable as a child. No different as an oldie.

OCHD I have to do everything right first time and while I tell everyone it's because I'm LAZY and do not want to redo any work I have already done I much prefer to know it's done properly the first time even if that newly built engine expires on the Engine Dyno 5 seconds into running it. The only real unimpressive thing is when they just expire with a puff of smoke and stop something blowing up and looking spectacular is so much more impressive and no one ever complains that it destroyed itself but when they just stop with nothing obvious difficult questions start being asked Like How Much of the wreck can I reuse and this is while it's still sitting in the engine Dyno smoking and quite hot.

I think as we get older a lot more things make sense. Some times it is putting a name to some thing. A lot of people got misdiagnosed of lots of different syndromes and diseases. Not all of us fit into the mould so we are misdiagnosed. We are learning more and more these days and have better technology and things to help. More programs to help people with different causes and we don't judge or label people the same any more. I guess you could say the world has grown up too and we see things from different spectrums. Not every thing is black and white.

chain smoking parents and thanks for the diseases I got, mum and dad

"All the world's a little queer 'cept thee and me and even thee's a little" - my gran taught me that and I guess we should accept our own oddities and those of others rather than feeling bad about it.

NOPE,

I really don't like labelling people with syndromes. Everyone is unique and not everyone fits in the boxes that society demands. I have discovered that I think differently to others and am very analytical. Others have said I am intelligent - academically minded maybe but some people can be so smart they are stupid. I hope that I can help others with my knowledge and what comes easily to me. There is no point in being smart if you can't be kind. Make the best of your skills and don't worry too much about those things you're not so adept at.

No ……I never worry about stuff that I can’t do anything about….lol

I that's what you think you are then you are in good company. I think that there are many people like that and it's just what makes up the numbers of the mix of human kind. Protégé,, genius or just people who can feel that things going to happen before they actually do. This is not a "new discovery" just not on the radar so much these days as people minds and hands are very occupied with the modcon IT attachments.

No, I too did not realise I was on the spectrum until my youngest son was diagnosed about 20 years ago now! Once my son got the diagnosis I instantly could "tick the boxes" for my Dad, Grandfather and Great Grandfather! As a child my mother would say to me things like "Bradley, Stop It!...You're behaving like an Autistic Child" - turns out I was!

No

Yes, and it's been great, coz it makes a lot of sense and I don't have to worry about it anymore. Im glad its been of help to you these realisations. Great topic for discussion. :)

No. Not really.

I think about these things too..have had anxiety/panic since v young and my precious daughter has inherited some anxiety-esp health worries. I feel very bad about this. I hope your daughter is getting support if needed- it seems hard to get connected to the right support systems or even to get a helpful "diagnosis". I sometimes wonder about high level autism with my daughter as some traits can manifest with anxiety or appear to be anxiety- or of course in some cases be both!

sometimes the diagnosis makes it worse. I think about the things we and our parents/grandparents had to 'put up' with and think how damned lucky and maybe over pampered we are now. My son has ADHD, which was never recognised, hence no drugs, just we all including teachers handled it in other ways. Didn't find out till he left school [from one of his previous teachers] that he had it. Was told by that teacher if he had been diagnosed he would have been put on 'heavy' drugs-so pleased it was never found

I'm afraid there is no sense to my earlier life, just terrible secretive times.

My love for gardening, reminds me of gardening with my parents in our backyard growing up

Every single day

One of my elderly Chinese friends says anxiety treatment is to laugh, keep happy and calm eat fish

yes a guy I was with in high school and he broke up with me. It turns out he is a hot headed jerk and so is his son found that I when we connected back in the ninties

Yes....to all of the above AND below, it's taken me 60 years to figure it out. NO you're NOT weird!

It's actually my mother who I have come to realise suffered from some quite serious mental issues, not the least of which was probably bi-polar disease. She passed in 2006, but over the past few years I have noticed similar symptoms in my eldest child.

all is okay and fine but sometimes i feel not okay

Yes I do suffer with some anxiety at times. I think we probably all do at different stages of our life but like you don't recognize it you just learn to live with it thinking it is a normal part of life.

Yes. I had almost exactly the same thing. I'm now in my 50s and was given a diagnosis of Autism only a few years ago. Which explains a lot of things and why many people reject me, and vice versa.

unfortunately yes

I have intellectual disability and I didn't know that I have intellectual disability as a child until I got older, and my mother told me that have an intellectual disability as a child.

You are not strange. We are all on the spectrum. Some a little crazy, others totally nuts. It only becomes a problem when it leads to dysfunction in your life. Labeling oneself can be detrimental because it is limiting. They are designed so professional people can group a set of behaviours easily. Do not take it seriously unless it becomes debilitating. Remember all these little quirks and traits make up the unique person you are.Edited 09-Apr-22 02:17am

NO - you are not weird. YES - you are unique (we all are). Also, I have had epiphanies that explained my behavior (often)! But I am OLD - I develop the need to think things (life) - OUT (since I cannot rely on my physical reactions to solve things (life) - "anymore" (my physical reactions have immensely "slow down" due to age)! Furthermore, the hardest person in the world to be objective about is yourself (which is "why" it got by you)!

Everyone is weird in some way...welcome to normality lol

No your not weird. I've lived with anxiety all my grown years. In my teenage years I did not know it was anxiety. But it makes perfect since to me now.

Everyone has their own weird quirks, although is it something only you have noticed or has someone else noticed these quirks and bought it to your attention as well?

No I am pretty steady and have been all my life. I do not go looking for trouble in any form health wise included. I do not put a label on things if I can help it either. My son is nearly 50 and was just diagnosed with Celiac disease which had caused him problems for years but never diagnosed. I guess the moral of that is if you have symptoms that persist follow through with your doctor or get another opinion.