http://www.leb.k12.in.us/pdf/distric...ve%20Child.pdf

Does a great job at going through how a highly sensitive person thinks.

I suffer from high anxiety and depression. In all honesty I am very likely bipolar but have never been diagnosed as such, because I don't seek help for it.

I used to take antidepresants in my late teens, after getting diagnosed with depression by a court-ordered psychologist, but since I was still smoking weed and doing other drugs it didn't help much. So I just stopped taking them.

I my late 20s I decided to seek help for anxiety. This time I wasn't doing other drugs but couldn't handle the side effects, so I quit taking them. Narcodics just don't work for me - so I try to maintain naturally. Sometimes - or often, I should say - with the help of alcohol (for social interaction, mainly - it's not like I get trashed at home by myself. Only on occassion).

Oh and for the past year, I've had pretty annoying heart palpitations, likely caused from anxiety. Haven't had it checked out yet.

Let's see what else...oh yeah ADHD or whatever the fuck. My attention span SUCKS! And my short-term memory is deteriorating. Some days at work I do nothing but hop around between message boards, even when I have plenty of work to do. I just get distracted easily and am obsessed with music and discovering it/talking about it.

Character flaws: I kind of don't care - so when someone's talking to me and getting to know me, I often forget to ask them questions too. I only realize it later. Maybe I'm a dick.

I should go back and read this thread. See? It's like I've answered all your questions without asking anything about you.

I used to be a judgmental ****head. Now I'm too much of a non judgmental people pleaser.

I liked myself better when i was a ****head. Trying to find myself somewhere in between

Ýou're still a judgmental ****head.
You even tried to convince me what I was thinking :D.
But that's allright. I'm a judgmental ****head too.
Or at least judgmental. What is a ****head anyway?

It's like an asshole but in the front.

Wonder if that would be considered a Disorder or a Character Flaw ;D.

Yes

This isn't a flaw of my own but I've got a child in my class this year with autism. He's gorgeous but stressing me out. All he does it just walk around in his own little world, he's not toilet trained yet, he cries when something out of routine occurs (like when he hears music he hasn't heard before) and he has zero fine motor skills. It's such a challenge. Does anyone else know anyone with autism like this?

I used to work at an institute for mentally ill people.
There was a department there for very heavy autists.
These people were allowed to draw on white paper four days of the week and on slightly yellow paper on the fifth day, to train them...
Usually a couple of them would go completely bezerk because of that change. Really interesting to look at, but not very practical

So what do you teach then?

Yeah, this is basically what this kid is like. It's doing my head in. He's got a teacher's aide in the classroom but I feel like a failure because I can't get him to do anything... all he does is just walk around all spaced out and occasionally just roll around on the floor.

I teach primary school :) At the moment I've got Prep which is the equivalent of Grade 1 or Kindergarten in other countries.