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BOARD RULES: Please read before posting

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Jan-07-10 13:27:49

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ha... just trying to introduce myself.  I am an adult with capd.  We thought i was an ashburger's but i'm not so shy but i have been called aloof and a loner.  It seems all my life i have sought the quiet to think about what was happening or happened.  I realized in highschool that i thought 'hi' to people who said 'hi' to me but was not speaking out loud to them.  No wonder they thought i was aloof.  I am now 62 and just have been diagnosed with this.  I've had a lot of strategies to cope with this problem and one of them is telling indian stories that were totally unrelated to the conversation.  I think to hide that i did not know what to tell them.  often people would not take the answer, 'i do not know.'  they consistently expected me to know and especially if they kept repeating the same sentence over and over again.  ha.  That's when i developed the strategy of telling 'off the wall indian stories'.  I had lots of ear infections and allergies when i was young and then at 28 i had a closed brain injury.  I am considered intelligent but mostly i get my information on how to by reading and then processing it after a bit. 

I have noticed that others have thought i was playing dumb when i remarked that i could not do things on my own.  they have sneered and tried to humiliate me for not remembering.  sometimes they have gotten away with it.  usually when i have another illness going on.  Like telling me i was evasive.  It has been very frustrating when I've sought help and others do not accept the simplicity of my statements of needing help.  I've felt that they steer the assignment back on me which often overwhelms me.  I simply shut down... sometimes for months.

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Jul-24-10 21:21:10

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Hello, I am an 32 year old adult with CAPD. I was always the weird one in my house.  We knew that there was something wrong, but we didn't know exactly.  My grades went down in third grade, and I had every test that was out there, but all came out "negative".  Finally in 10th grade my family and I finally got CAPD diagnosed with help of a social worker.  My mother and father just thought I was lazy and always yelled at me and threatened me to take my favorite things away.  Due to this I have low self confidence.  I never thought I was good at anything.  I get very frustrated because I know what I want to say. but I cannot express it in words.  Others get aggrivated with me because I do not express things correctly.  I have to write everything down because I  can not remember.  I get mad because I  come across as stupid and people treat me as such.  I'm glad that I have found this website because my self esteem is so low that I believe that I am never going to make it and I have tried to commit suicide multiple times.  I am at the point where I think I am useless.  I am on the verge of breaking down and this is really my last hope.

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