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Hello everyone,
I am a 34 year old mother of three boys, second of which may have Asperger's. He is starting the evaluation process on Wednesday, so it will take some time until we know for sure.
When our pediatrician mentioned Aspergers I went on line and started to gather as much information as I could.

I was in for a massive surprise. I don't know if my son is an aspie but my father definitely is.
I discovered a wonderful blog called Life with Aspergers, (that's where I found out about Wrong Planet).
This blog was an eye opener, many of the posts could have been written by me, how is it possible no one ever noticed I was on the spectrum?

I have been different since my babyhood, as a child I preferred to be alone. I learned my ABC when I was 2 years old and by my third year I was an avid reader. Books were much more interesting than other kids.
I never had, well, almost never had problems with my peers, however adults seemed to hate me with passion. I could never understand what it was in me, that would make them so mean. I was a quiet child, minded my own business, read my books, practiced my violin and piano and never got into trouble. I loved to play train and line up all the chairs and toys and sit in front. I have many pictures like this. I also loved to study the pattern on handkerchiefs, my mother would give me a big stash and I would fold and unfold them endlessly.

In my teenage years I started to smoke and drink (at 15), it alleviated my anxiety a lot, my parents didn't notice, as long as I was good in school the rest would go unnoticed. They didn't know I was suicidal and I would cut my arms sometimes. I was eleven when I started. To be honest, I have done it rarely, not more than, lets say ...5-6 times.
I won't go into further detail, I am wondering if you would recognize Aspergian traits in my story, or is it my imagination?
Does it really matter if it is PDD- NOS or HFA?
I am by all means one of the above, oh, well.

I took a test on line, the Aspie quiz. Do you think it is reliable?
I got 151 out of 200 for Aspie score, my NT score was 63 out of 200.

Thank you for reading my post and your answers.

Hi! I am so sorry about your harsh history. You seem like a really nice person. However, the aspie test is not really... reliable. There's more to aspergers than that.

Anywho, welcome!

Thank you, Ferdinand.
I will probably seek an evaluation for myself, I think it is good and healthy to understand yourself.
I have always had special interests but who doesn't, right? I would only befriend people who shared the same interests, but this is natural.
I was obssessed with Metallica from grade 7 until I went to college and got too busy with other things. They rocked my world. I would wear Metallica T shirts to the horror of my mother and covered my bedroom walls with posters.
Now, all this happened in post communist Bulgaria, right after the fall of the Berlin wall. It was a tumultuous time. For my teachers I was not a kid acting up, I was a fiend from hell, engaging in western propaganda. It was absurd!
I loved the music, and I was desperate to understand the lyrics, which lead to my obsession with the English language. Very soon my ESL teacher told my mother to get me a private teacher, because obviously I had such a knack for foreign languages, that the class was holding me back. So, the long story short, I eventually got fluent and went to grad school in the States, where I met my husband.

Your intro reminded me of several things I had forgotten from my own childhood.

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Welcome to WrongPlanet.

Hello - and welcome to the WP community, Mitsouko.

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