My uncle had lung complications with his RA, but he was much older than Tim and not nearly as fit. Once his lungs started to collapse they were in such bad shape they had trouble keeping them reinflated.I think the fact that it hasn't happened again and Tim isn't feeling overly stressed when exercising are good signs. Best possible outcome for Tim.

Tim says that he thinks his primary-care doctor is being proactive as hell

Proactive is a very good thing. You, Tim, and your PCP are all on top of this.

You, Tim, and your PCP are all on top of this.

My part in the equation is to run around shrieking like Daffy Duck when he lost his shit.

Steph I feel super lucky that my therapist (who I picked for his trauma experience) also has experience with ASD and was pretty much like "so has anyone ever talked to you about this" and gave me a take home assessment.

I actually asked him last week about more extensive testing and he said in his experience that the extensive testing gives the same results and he's had patients he knows are ont he spectrum but have something else like PTSD and they end up getting diagnosed with other stuff EXCEPT Autism/aspergers.

He assured me this counts for insurance purposes and to be "official".

Also I saw the FB thread with you (Steph) and Plei and I wanted to say some thigns but I wasn't sure what would show up on my feed and I just ...don't want to deal with..say...Mom reading something and feeling judged by her.

And I'm glad I'm not the only one who does something like that!

Also I saw the FB thread with you (Steph) and Plei and I wanted to say some thigns but I wasn't sure what would show up on my feed and I just ...don't want to deal with..say...Mom reading something and feeling judged by her.

My brother (also on the spectrum) and I decided to not mention it to our parents, because mom will wail about how she caused it and dad will just talk over us to tell us about some ailment he has. So we just text each other amusing stories. (When I got to Colorado when he was trying to stop drinking, and it was 11:30 at night and he was in bed because he was sick, I was sitting on the edge of the bed and he reached over to take my hand and I flinched, and he laughed and said "Oh my god, you are autistic as HELL!" and I said, "Yeah? Well, you're autistic and an alcoholic, so right now I WIN.") (We are SUPER healthy and a couple of dicks.)

My part in the equation is to run around shrieking like Daffy Duck when he lost his shit.

Not true. You look things up and you care, that is not nothing.

So I was like "I'll look at rings on Etsy" and the firs tthing that pops out at me is Stucky engagement rings. With lovey words engraved on them so that won't work.

askye, what about one of these?

Or this fidget ring?

Oh those might work. I haven't looked at Signals in ages.

I hope it's not super-serious, Tep.