http://www.psychiatry.univr.it/page_eps/docs/2007_2_Salvatore_et%20al.pdf

The “manic stupor”, though, explains what I’ve always likened to a “catatonic seizure”; There’s so much going on in my head that I can’t move. I just sit in a “stupor”, I’ve called it, while my mind whizzes from one completely unrelated thought, memory, observation, idea, or question to another so rapidly that I never have the opportunity to latch onto one of them and ACT on it…. I just sit there in a stupor -for hours- helplessly watching the thoughts whizz by.

I LOVE your term “suckage”. I have SO used that to describe my own wrestling with the rudimentary functions of life that seem to come so simply and automatically to others. It IS just living in a state of Suckage. I have been through breast cancer, mastectomy, and chemo, and can tell you that Bipolar (esp. this Ultra-Rapid Cycling Mixed State Type 2 which I have come to understand that I have) is way, WAY, WAY….WAYYY, WAAAAYYYYY worse than dealing with cancer!!! Cancer was a 6-month snap that hardly registered at all on my Radar of Suffering which is accustomed to fielding all the crap that bipolar has brought my way 24/7 for decades on end.

I have to say that this new Mixed State energy/mood/thought model could possibly explain why I have been diagnosed ADHD for 20 years, yet never found an ADHD med that really worked the way it was supposed to on me. Most had no effect at all. “So am I really ADHD….??” More confusion.
It sounds like it is possible that the lack of focus and/or lack of mental activity which has always been attributed to ADHD is not due to ADHD at all, but rather this Mixed-State Wave thing.

I consider this all very encouraging, and am glad to see this relatively “new” information making its way across the internet on blogs such as yours. It sounds like your brain has been sculpted from the same clay as mine, and I will be returning to your blog to take comfort in the evidence that someone else out there knows this Suckage with which I have had to live.

Anna

Dear Resonance,
As a 40 year old I am now considering an advanced degree. Please advise me whether there have been precedents for colleges reversing NC’s (No Credit = F = 0) on ADD students’ transcripts. During my BA studies I attempted to be evaluated by my school’s Learning Center for ADHD but was rejected after 3 simple questions. 20 years later I finally was tested and diagnosed with severe ADD. Never thinking possible an advanced degree, now I realize with medication, therapy and support I can make my dreams come true. Thank you for your time and any help you can offer to help me pursue my Masters degree.

I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t advice on legal precedent. I also don’t know your school’s policies.

Based on my experience as a former college instructor at a large state university in the U.S., my guess would be no.

Most instructors and/or universities specify a deadline for grade appeals in the syllabus. This is usually close to when the course ends. It’s unlikely that a college would be willing to consider a grade appeal twenty years out.

Instructors are usually not willing to change grades based on work a student could have produced if circumstances had been different.

Your school might be willing to allow you to re-enroll and re-take the courses. I don’t know whether they’d be willing to replace your old courses with your new grade, but you might be able to show graduate schools that you are now capable of performing at the level they would require to admit you.

You then note a fact, and because you’re disagreeing with me, you’re implicitly encouraging the reader to buy the notion that flu shots cause autism. Since you’re not stating your argument, you can back up when called on it, and you don’t need to provide support.

People freak out about thimerosal in vaccines way more than about other household products; why is that?

On the other hand, approx 90% of the injected flu shots contain it.