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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 696783" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Bi-polar is, from what I understand, not triggered by specific events. It is a problem of cyclical brain chemicals. So, the real trigger is the brain chemicals being a certain way and then when something goes wrong, the reaction coming back doesn't match the situation.</p><p></p><p>Bi-polar DOES often show up with or shortly after puberty. Add in the hormones of puberty, and it's ugly. If you then also have to add a developmental difference such as ADHD or Asperger's...</p><p></p><p>Lets just say that it's not an easy road.</p><p></p><p>For the record. The difference between ADHD and Asperger's is "a line in the sand". Somebody had to define diagnostic cut-offs for each of the diagnoses. So there is an arbitrary minimum number of "problems" that have to exist to get an Asperger's diagnosis; the ADHD diagnosis has fewer, but does overlap. More recently, there is some recognition that the two diagnoses are on some level related. If you are on the borderline... you often need but don't get the higher-level diagnosis of Asperger's.</p><p></p><p>The biggest difference between a ADHD diagnosis and an Asperger's diagnosis is the resources available to you in both the medical and school systems. ADHD doesn't tend to get much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 696783, member: 11791"] Bi-polar is, from what I understand, not triggered by specific events. It is a problem of cyclical brain chemicals. So, the real trigger is the brain chemicals being a certain way and then when something goes wrong, the reaction coming back doesn't match the situation. Bi-polar DOES often show up with or shortly after puberty. Add in the hormones of puberty, and it's ugly. If you then also have to add a developmental difference such as ADHD or Asperger's... Lets just say that it's not an easy road. For the record. The difference between ADHD and Asperger's is "a line in the sand". Somebody had to define diagnostic cut-offs for each of the diagnoses. So there is an arbitrary minimum number of "problems" that have to exist to get an Asperger's diagnosis; the ADHD diagnosis has fewer, but does overlap. More recently, there is some recognition that the two diagnoses are on some level related. If you are on the borderline... you often need but don't get the higher-level diagnosis of Asperger's. The biggest difference between a ADHD diagnosis and an Asperger's diagnosis is the resources available to you in both the medical and school systems. ADHD doesn't tend to get much. [/QUOTE]
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