28 Feb 2010, 9:24 am
As per title.
I'm weird, but that's not a bad thing. I've only been officially diagnosed ADD, but after researching Aspergers disorder extensively on a random tangent, I couldn't help but notice how many of the issues associated with that disorder that I can qualify in my past, but as just a guy who randomly researched the disorder, I don't think I'm objective or qualified to make any wonky diagnosis based on past observations, so I can only say that I have ADD and weird tangential obsessions that take off like freight trains.
For instance, I play guitar and violin (self-taught) and I enjoy listening to music that has no lyrics, but I also love music that is extensively lyric-based (folk and bluegrass, for example). I became orchid obsessed and had a hanging garden in Florida before I moved to Ohio and would be able to discuss with any botanist the anatomical makeup of epiphytes (including nepenthes species) if only I were able to be articulate in social situations to the degree necessary for that kind of dialogue. I've always had an obsession with nature, but that particular motivation pushes me into small, eclectic fields of interest that most people either take for granted or have no interest in whatsoever. I tend to become hyperfocused on particulars in my work (I do graphics design/print production) and obsess over quality, but that obsession tends to direct itself into small technical details that other people either overlook, or can't understand the significance of. Regardless, my work is typically top-notch and I get people from all over coming to have me do their print jobs for them, yet when they ask me why I can produce something as well as I can, the only answer that occurs to me is "I dunno...". I read constantly. I can't watch TV because it annoys me (too much stuff to pay attention to at one time). I prefer gardening to interpersonal interaction because at least my orchids understand me. I even play music for my plants (no, I don't think they care, but they do listen well).
Anyhow, regardless of whether I do have aspergers or some other autistic spectrum disorder, I have a lot of friends who do (I tend to gravitate towards aspies, and have even before I really understood what it was), and I hope you'll not mind my being here.
So that's my introrantrody. 
I certainly typed a lot. Hi everybody!
28 Feb 2010, 12:40 pm
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28 Feb 2010, 2:18 pm
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28 Feb 2010, 2:50 pm
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