Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

On 24 June Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>At 08:59 22/06/00 GMT, you wrote:
>>
>>It's quite possible that I have some kind of depressive
>>personality, but it's also possible that I create depressing
>>situations for myself through my failure to solve my
>>problems efficiently. Like withdrawing from them instead of
>>solving them. In other words, I know that I experience what
>>I would call depression (last year I didn't bother to turn
>>up to any of my final examinations because I perceived there
>>was no point) but I'm not sure where the ultimate cause can
>>be traced to.
>>
I can relate to that. I still owe one of my professors
a major term paper. The failure to turn it in resulted
in an "incomplete grade" in my major field of study
(_linguistics_, as it turns out !). Anyhow, I'm not likely
to turn it in any time soon, since the prof died many years
ago (I know that the internet is powerful, but I don't
think that where he currently resides is wired yet, and besides,
I'm not sure in which direction he went  ;-)  ) and anyhow,
I have changed fields, graduated, and have been working
for lo, these many years. The original cause of the delay,
however, was something like what you are describing here.
>
>I am depressive too (and diagnosed as such) and I know where it comes from
>(bad experience in a military school, if anyone understands the French word
>'bizutage'.
    I think that an American English equivalent would be
"hazing the Freshmen (1st year students)". If so, I experienced
it, but at my (public, not military) school it was extremely mild:
 mostly amounting to things like selling the new kids tickets
 which they would need in order to take the scool elevators
 from floor to floor (and needless to say,
there were no elevators of any sort in the school building! :-)  ),
stupid stuff like that.

 Actually it was so bad that I still don't remember everything.
>When I came back from there (after one week in hospital), my parents hardly
>recognized me).
That's brutality, not hazing or initiation!
I'm sad to hear that you suffered it.  :-(


Dan Sulani

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