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Hello everyone!

I am not sure how to begin except I have Asperger's, though its officially-unofficially diagnosed. I say "officially-unofficially" because I went to a psychologists office and while looking around I came to a psychologist's area with different specialties. One specialty was for Autism and other similar topics. Only a few days prior a very close friend ( of which I might add I have few friends period which is why I was so excited to learn this very day of 'Wrong Planet') told me he thinks he figured me out. I laughed and said "If you figured me out, then you did that which I have yet to accomplish."

My friend said one of his sons ( whom I had not yet met ) has 'Asperger's,' and he believed that was so with me; so when I saw the whole Autism ( and the like ) office I went in and asked if I could talk to someone about AS.

A lady who specializes in AS in particular said she'd be glad to speak with me. Long story made short I talked her ear off and after four or more hours of talking ( which she insisted she really didn't mind and the lady wasn't actually working that day ) she said she had enough information about me to say whether or not I had AS ( and said she, she knew my life's story and then some.) She said I did have Asperger's and very strongly yet am very high functioning; so, when I said "officially-unofficially" it was because the lady was fully qualified to make the diagnoses, yet I was not actually her patient; so again, "officially-unofficially."

My main purpose for being here is the hope of having some friends.

I wrote my zip code as the zip code for where I lived last in my home state of Georgia, but I actually live in Utah County, Utah, but never get any mail ( except junk mail ) so I don't actually know the local zip. As I said, GA is my home anyway.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

To WrongPlanet!! !

Greetings, Tacitus!

Say, would you happen to be the same Tacitus I've encountered over at David Brin's blog?

Thanx for the welcome all!

DeaconBlues,

No, I have not been yet to David Brin's blog, I may check it out though now that you have me curious.

I just started here yesterday ( or the wee hours of today one or the other.)

As for blogs, I am not entirely sure what a blog is as I am a bookworm.

A "blog" is short of "weblog", a sort of online diary - at least, that's how they started out; nowadays, they can consist of just about any format. David Brin is a famed SF author (and slightly less famous Professor of Astrophysics at UCSD); his blog (davidbrin.blogspot.com), entitled "Contrary Brin", discussed politics (he's usually pigeonholed as libertarian, but has several disagreements with the Libertarian Party, and holds that political beliefs should not be plotted on a single line, but charted in at least two dimensions), the latest in scientific advances, transhumanism and the Singularity, and whatever else strikes his fancy at the moment. (He has written interesting deconstructions of Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, both novel and movie; sadly, since they have been recently collected into books, his online links now only connect to truncated versions, that cut off before he really gets going.)

The Tacitus that posts there is one of the reasonable conservatives that Brin so enjoys discussing matters with - someone who is willing to back up his views with actual data, rather than merely parroting the talking points of Fox News (largely owned by Rupert Murdoch, founder of the Weekly World News, and the House of Saud, so Fox's fierce defense of an oil-based economy is hardly surprising...).

Welkome to WP!

Mick

Hello Tacitus

Got to ask why you picked the name - I have read him many times!

Kind Regards

GarTog