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At 53, I have recently diagnosed myself as being on the AS personality spectrum. It certainly explains a lot. I have official diagnoses of OCD and ADHD and am medicated for depression and ADHD. I am a "high-bottom drunk": got onto the wagon before things got out of hand, sober 19 years. I'm a fairly well functioning and employed professional, comfortable in my quirkiness, but frustrated by my inability to concentrate and tendency to drop whatever I'm doing to take on the next requested task without finishing the last one. I've always felt outside the circle, but never really liked what I saw inside it either. I have often been lonely but now treasure my solitude when I have it. I can relate to being exhausted by long social situations. I tend to interrupt a lot, and to ramble on.

I really related to the "post" about public restrooms. In high school I stopped using the girl's bathroom because it was too scary (those staring, smoking girls with white lipstick) and went over to the middle school to pee. However, in college I once lived in a dorm where the bathrooms were co-ed and at the time was able to perform numbers 1 through 2 even if the feet in the next stall were pointing the wrong way. Then as an adult I got inhibited about #2 again. Fortunately, no one smokes in bathrooms any more, at least not in corporate america.

I'm happy to be older and not so worried about what others think of me.
I think my personality has definitely hampered my salary as much as my gender has done.

re: the main stream...I don't watch TV at all and it hasn't hurt me one bit. I made exceptions for 9/11, the Red Sox winning the World Series, and the election of Barack Obama. Everything I know about TV I read at the supermarket checkout. I get my news from NPR in the car. The only decision I need to make about healthcare is to try to stay healthy and take care of my body. The rest is out of my hands, for the most part.

Glad to have found this site.

Hi.
I really don't know what to say (now being shy but wanting to communicate)
but everyone else says Welcome to WP.

I understand and agree with you.
I often try to respond helpfully in some way but
even though you remind me of people I've met
and got along with, I never had any helpful ideas.
I don't like smoky bathrooms or watching TV either.

Welcome to WrongPlanet and welcome to my time warp.

Glad to meet you, Anniegator, and welcome aboard the Wrong Planet.

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

Welcome to WP

This is me to a tee:

To WrongPlanet!! !

At 53 you might want to check out the Dino Aspie Cafe..

Hello.