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I just joined, though I have been lurking for a bit before (like I usually do). I was diagnosed with Asperger's as a kid, and generally grew up being kind of ashamed of it. Which, on the one hand I learned quite well to fake being "normal", if somewhat nerdy, but, long story short I realized in college that I'm actually quite unhappy living life in constant fear of people "finding out" that I'm different... so now I'm trying to come to better terms with, and gain a greater understanding of what I am.

Edit: Oh that's irritating, my username ends up overlapping the post time... that is going to bother me. But, it apparently can't be changed, so I may as well try to be pragmatic about it.

Hey ProbablyOverthinkingThisUsername welcome.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome to WP =^..^=

btw, you may be able to ask an admin to change your username if you want.

Coming to terms with being seen as different is not easy especially when one is younger. I was ashamed of who I was and tried to act normal for decades before being diagnosed in my 50s when things went seriously going wrong for me. The good news is that there is now much better understanding of ASD. I recently finished reading Steve Silverman's book "Neurotribes" which gives an account of how thinking about autism has changed over the the last hundred years or so - it's deeply shocking what was done to people for most of the 20th century but a new and more hopeful era seems to have dawned.

Hi and welcome, POTU !

: )