Posted by Susan47 on September 17, 2004, at 11:22:42
In reply to aka Disorder or Difference, posted by Dinah on September 17, 2004, at 10:56:02
Hi sweetie, (hope you don't mind me saying that) from your post: "I'm used to thinking of myself as having disorders, but I was realizing how terribly functional some of those disorders are. And I started thinking of myself as just different. It's hard to reconstruct that middle of the night insight. But it was something along the lines of that I was a specialist, not a generalist. I was a very specialized and rather high maintenance tool in the toolchest of life, but no less valuable than the more versatile and sturdier tools. That many many eons ago, it was helpful in any given tribe of humans to have many generalists but a few specialists, and that allowances were made for the downside of being a specialist because the abilities were highly prized. But that in today's world of standardization, specialists don't offer quite as much of a value to cost ratio and so aren't as highly prized. It's not so much that I and others like me have a disorder, as that I have different strengths and weaknesses and that it is society that makes it a disorder.
I may be blabbering so a few examples."
You're not blabbering at all; in fact, I (being someone like you I suspect) couldn't agree with you more. Insights in the middle of the night can be more intense, I think, in that they have a reality we're not allowed in the middle of the day. Our minds are no longer distracted by daytime stuff and we're allowed to focus more on main issues about ourselves and our lives.
I think you're brilliant.
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