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16 Mar 2006, 2:22 am

Hello, I am new here and I'm pretty sure that I have Aspergers Syndrome.

I have horrible social mechanics. I only have two friends. I have been very well shy for a big part of my life. I don't make immediate eye contact to people, it takes me a good amount of time before I can finally look at people. I also get nervous energy.

Obviously I like playing chess, whether it's normal one on one chess or chess variants. I have entered in some tournaments and it helped only alittle bit with my problems. I haven't won any tournaments but I certainly didn't finish in last place in alot of them. :wink: I'm also a sports fanatic. Baseball and football are way up there, but I leave some room for basketball, hockey and soccer. I also like to read a good amount of books, anything that involves my other interests.

I like the looks of this place and I'm glad that I found it!

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16 Mar 2006, 6:10 am

I'm also brand-spanking-new, but didn't see the point in creating a new thread so I've decided to use and abuse yours!

It's only been recently that I was told that I had been diagnosed by an educational psychologist as being mildly autistic, this was 2 years ago and I had seemingly forgotten or blanked it out, so it came as quite a blow when I heard it again recently, this time round I was determined to find out what it was about instead of denying it.

I read just about everything I could find on the internet about autism and realised that I suffered from just about every symptom of Aspergers.

Anyways, enough of that, I'm here now.

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16 Mar 2006, 3:39 pm

Welcome to both of you!

We're not bad people. We just have social problems. "Obsess" is a very familiar word to us. A lot of us have few if any friends in real life, but we do have friends here. We're a very friendly group.

I hope you both enjoy posting here!

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16 Mar 2006, 8:23 pm

Hello you guys welcome to WP.

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16 Mar 2006, 9:47 pm

Hi guys welcome to WP!

Chessplayer,

we have a section on this site called aspiechess where you can play chess online with someone else.

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21 Jan 2008, 10:22 pm

Hello everybody.

I haven't been here in a long time. Alot of things have happened since I've been away. I'm sorry I haven't posted alot. That happens sometimes. I got alot of reading to do. :wink:

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21 Jan 2008, 10:53 pm

Welcome, we will be here.

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22 Jan 2008, 5:45 am

Although this is 2 years old, welcome to WP!

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22 Jan 2008, 2:06 pm

Welcome back to Wrong Planet!

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22 Jan 2008, 2:13 pm

Nice to meet you, chessplayer.

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22 Jan 2008, 3:26 pm

Welcome back to WrongPlanet!

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22 Jan 2008, 8:00 pm

Hey there... I'm new too. Nice to meet you and everyone else.

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29 Jan 2008, 10:58 am

Hi, I'm new and joined today.

I am a 33yo guy and have a few months ago, after lots of searching, discovered what was staring me in the face all along - Asperger's, hence self-diagnosis

Had a look through the site and it is brilliant and am looking forward to interacting with you all.

I am an urban planner and enjoy gymming, mountain biking, art, etc.

Apologies for my poor use of English (very frustrating for me too) as it is not my 1st language.

I live in Cape Town, South Africa.

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29 Jan 2008, 3:59 pm

Hi and welcome to the Aspie community...

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29 Jan 2008, 9:58 pm

Welcome

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04 Feb 2008, 7:52 am

Paperplate wrote:

Welcome to WP!

Urban planning is one of my interests.

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