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petir
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10 Feb 2010, 4:03 am

Hi everyone,

I'm 27 yo male from Indonesia. I diagnosed myself to have asperger syndrome (all symptoms were fit) although never get officially diagnosed. Problem is, I'm not sure if psychologist here good enough to know anything about asperger (I have a friend who psychology major student and she never heard anything about asperger), and I think that wrongly diagnosed is probably worse than no diagnose.

I only have a few relatively close friends in my entire life and even with them I rarely talk. I'm socially awkward, often in a social situation people laugh behind my back, I must had did something funny but I never know what. So, most of time I am alone. I spend almost all of my spare time alone in my room, reading things that interested me or playing PC games or watching movie.

I never have a girlfriend, I even don't know if I could understand what love is, it's so illogical. I already gave up on my effort to have a relationship with a girl.

Fortunately, I never have difficulty getting a job as I really good in my profession (computer programmer). I have a job with good pay. So financially I'm quite secure.

Being an aspie is not easy anywhere in the world, but I think it probably even worse in Indonesia, where autism get a negative stigma and considered as kind of crazy or mentally ret*d. People here not as educated as in developed nation. I never talk about my condition to anyone, even to my parent because I'm affraid about that negative stigma.

So, nice to meet you all. I'm glad that I found this site.

Btw, anybody from Indonesia here?

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10 Feb 2010, 4:49 pm

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10 Feb 2010, 5:06 pm

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10 Feb 2010, 5:28 pm

Hello petir, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

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10 Feb 2010, 5:29 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

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10 Feb 2010, 8:08 pm

Hello and welcome.

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10 Feb 2010, 9:22 pm

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11 Feb 2010, 12:52 pm

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

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Being an aspie is not easy anywhere in the world, but I think it probably even worse in Indonesia, where autism get a negative stigma and considered as kind of crazy or mentally ret*d. People here not as educated as in developed nation. I never talk about my condition to anyone, even to my parent because I'm affraid about that negative stigma.

In general, autism has that same stigma here in the USA.

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