hello everyone! i'm new here

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27 Oct 2010, 10:11 pm

I am a 22-year-old recent college grad and self-diagnosed Aspergirl

I have struggled my entire life with social awkwardness, depression, obsessions, anger, anxiety, sensory issues, etc...but I had never even heard of Asperger's Syndrome until about 2 years ago. I googled it one day and realized that many of the symptoms described me perfectly. Then, when I discovered this forum and read some of the experiences that people here had growing up, the way they felt, etc...I realized that I had finally found people that I could relate to.

I have been having a particularly rough time lately...I nearly dropped out of college this spring, and since I have graduated and come home, I have barely left my room in my parents house (and it's been 6 months). It is like schoolwork was providing a distraction for me so I didn't have to think about my social/emotional problems, and how ill-prepared I actually was to go out into the world and learn to drive, get a job, etc...but now that I have nothing else to focus my thoughts on, it is all terribly overwhelming.

I don't have any friends or anyone that I can really talk to at all, so I am hoping that maybe talking to people on this site will help me to calm down a bit and try to figure out what to do.

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27 Oct 2010, 10:16 pm

welcome to Wrong Planet!

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27 Oct 2010, 10:32 pm

thank you!

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