Disorders: Why Can't People Accept Them?

Well many times I have come across people, either in day to day life or online who seem to think the growth of disorders are down to people wanting to have an 'excuse' as to why they can't cope. Isn't their an irony in telling people they are making an excuse for themselves when they are at the same time making an excuse for the growth?

We need to accept that people are different; people do have different tolerance levels. The world is not staying the same and so we as humans will not stay the same. Technology changes; we change or at least try to change.

That has had a knock on effect on loads of things, on medicine, food, entertainment, work and transportation, in fact I can't think of an area where it hasn't had a knock on effect, so why wouldn't it not have one when it comes to people? Let me give you an example.

Asperger Syndrome (my diagnosis) was universally recognised in around 1994, but years ago, some of the problems we have wouldn't have existed. Aspies dislike change, it makes us pretty depressed (in varying degrees - because no two people are the same {!}) if it's at short notice, why would it be easy to recognise now? Modern society has more change than it did years ago, people travel more frequently, whereas before if you went away you were seen as privileged. Technology and better communication systems means things don't need to be planned so far in advance and it is easier to just go out and do something, 5 minutes after you've thought about it. You can't say we're just eccentric people either, technology also means we know more about the brain than we did 30 years ago, even though its still only a tiny proportion of what is out there to learn. Our brains haven't developed to the extent which your 'average' Joe Bloggs brain has. And no it isn't the case of just stupid, I along with many Aspies been predicted straight A's so it is nothing to do with being stupid.

Then there are tolerance levels, it's a very arrogant perception to think, I experienced Sh#te loads, I'm fine, so everyone else should be (and so these disorders are excuses). People's immune systems are weaker than others, some collapse due to things, that other experience 0 problems with, so why shouldn't our brains and our tolerance to every day or bad problems be different? That's not humans being namby-pamby that is a fact of life. I know of two rodents that were neglected and given to someone who had a snake, which were put in a freezer (they were alive and fully grown) for over 12 hours, when they were taken out to be defrosted so they could feed them to their snakes, one eventually moved and survived, the other one died. One clearly was more adapted to cooler temperatures than the other; we clearly have people who are adapted to modern society better than others.

Then there is the increase in depression and similar problems, if someone is sad for no reason, then why is it assumed it is because they can't face their problems and get on with it? To me it contradicts the first part. People can be sad for no reason, just like you can be happy for no reason, or feel like something wrong is about to happen for no reason. Don't we even show signs of pregnancy for no reason? All mainly because of hormones. Then there is the other commonplace thought that depression is feeling "sorry for yourself" which is a massive incorrect generalisation. Self pity and depression are two very different things. For instance, when you are depressed you can feel a massive amount of self hatred, I know I did and I know I still get lows nowadays, sometimes people can help and sometimes they can't. Just like what you dream at night, you can't really control, you can't really control your mood. Some people have triggers that make them depressed, and that can be almost anything, could be people telling them to just get on it with it too.

I do get on with my life to the best of my ability, I work with my family friends, those that care for me, to try and adapt the best way I can to the challenges I face, sometimes I fail, sometimes I succeed. I have a label, one that hasn't been around very long, but many fail to realise, some people go in search for fecking years like I did to find out what's wrong, just so they can try and work out where they can go from there, not to sit back and say, "I've got x, I can't do that, I won't do that, you have to accept that." But to say, "I know now I've got x, which means I have problems with y, and v can help me to try and improve in areas where I so far have failed, can you help me too?"