Hello. I just got off a John Elder Robison binge, reading/listening to his first 3 memoirs. When I was getting to the end of Raising Cubby, he mentioned that Jack had connected with Wrong Planet, posting videos and such. I had known about Wrong Planet over a decade ago, when I first learned I probably had Asperger's, but then I forgot about it. I was formally diagnosed a couple years ago, just as the pandemic got started. Since then, I've been looking online for autistic hangouts. I'm excited to see that Wrong Planet seems to have a healthy, mature forum.
Myself, I'm 43 (I think? I have to do the math these days). I live in Vermont with a partner and her son, our 3 cats, 7 rabbits, 2 guinea pigs, 1 bird, 1 betta fish, several prawns and pond snails, and the inlaws in the apartment next to ours (it's really just a big house in the country). We've had some ups and downs, but my diagnosis really improved things (both for her understanding me and me understanding her and me). It also appears that her son is autistic (working on getting an eval soon), and strong suspicion regarding her father.
I'm self-employed as a wholesale baker, but I have a lot of other interests, including animals (obviously), particularly house bunnies, the great outdoors, reading (I love Stephen King), writing, music (listening, mostly, but dabbling in playing several instruments), watching sci-fi (big Trekkie and Stargate fan), studying languages (focusing on German, at the moment), learning Braille (for the fun of it), snowboarding, swimming (I'm most at home in the water), and studying psychology (CBT), and restoring my old motorcycle. There's probably more, but I never know how to start or end an introduction. I'm sure most of us are in that boat.