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Hello everyone,

My name is Jason, and I might very well have AS. Not sure yet, but after doing lots of reading, I think it may be possible, and a quick screen test said I rank pretty high for possibley having. On Monday I'm going to see a psychologist that specializes in Autism and such to see what she says. I have been diagnosed with ADD, but I think this to be wrong now, and that the sysmptoms of it are realy only a smal part of the problem.

As for background - I am 27, Married, have a daughter, have completed 2 Assoc Degrees ( Netowrk Engineering and 3D Animation ), and work as a sys admin full time.

I'm not what anyone would call friendly and am normally very quiet. My interests are in illustration, programming, and games ( games, games, games, and more games...) I play D&D, computer games, and am working on a new Warhammer 40K army. As soon as I sell my left kidney, I may be able to afford a nice Space Marine army.

From what I have read about AS, my main symptoms are not relating to others well and not having very good social graces. I tend to be extremely truthful about myself to strangers, but am more closemouthed wih those closest to me. Rather than risk hurting them, I just don't talk very much. I do tend to talk about my games stuff waaay too much, and really don't say much else. Nothing else seems worth talking about. And I really hate talking about other people or what they are doing. Or how they are "feeling"...

Also, I tend not to make friends as its too time consuming, but I do enjoy the people I play games with. It just never goes beyond that.

I have a lot of trouble in family matters as I don't talk to anyone very much, and if I do it's just about the matter at hand. My wife came from a very large family where everyone was connected at the hip. She does not understand a persons desire to be alone for long periods of time, or my own need to game, model, draw, paint, etc a lot. She prefers to ahve lots of "quality time".

One of the things that made me really want to seek some kind of help is two fold:

1) My job used to be great as I worked pretty much independently on second-shift. As long as things worked right, no one payed me any attention. I once went 3 months without even talking to my boss. Since then I have been moved "up" and now work around and with a bunch of people. This is not happy When I first went on ADD meds, the Adderrall "zombied" me out enough that I didn't notice. When I started getting resistant, it didn't help anymore. Now I'm on Concerta, which hasn't done squat. Currently, I get to work and become almost frozen, and unable to accomplish anything.

2) Since being on first shift, I'm now at home at night with my family. I think it's good as I need to see them sometimes, but my wife does not understand that I need "me" time. Or thinks that an hour or two a month is good enough. After a year I've just goten tired of arguements and don't really do any of my interests anymore.


Now depression seems to have set in, making work even harder, making my presence at home less than fun for everyone, and I've got at least 20 more years til I think I could see some kind of respite from all of this.

Oh and my wife wants us to travel a lot then....


AAAUUGGGHHH!! !!


And that was my shpeal... Thanks and good night:)

Hi!

Welcome to Wrongplanet! My name is Jason also!

I hope you enjoy posting here!

I've been browsing the site and it is really neat. Hearing a lot of people that seem to have the same "bent" on reality is a welcome relief for me. For too long I have been the strange one, even though I never really felt strange at all.

Question... does anyone here really hate the texture of broccolli? I think I could almost eat it if it didn't feel like I was eating a sea sponge or somthing...

Nice to meet you Jason. Second most common name for a male in my age group I ws once ALMOST arrested because another Jason K. Brooks was wanted for grand theft auto. It took me 15 minutes to explain to the officer that "I was not the man he was looking for". Of course it helped that we had different middle names.

Hi, nice to meet you too!

I'm glad you weren't arrested and they were looking for a different person. I'm glad you came to realize that. We, as people with AS, make a lot of social mistakes and we grow and show our improvement just by doing things like posting to this forum. This serves as a comfort to me knowing that my life was slightly changed by this site.