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Hello all,

I am a disfunctional, anti-social, animal loving oddity struggling to survive and have been all my life. ASD was recently suggested. I have been given multiple tests, iq and otherwise. I am considered a genius but I am socially inept. When I am in social situations I try to joke and be friendly but I end up alienating everyone. People can tolerate me only in small amounts. Similarly I tolerate others only in small amounts. I have trouble getting and keeping jobs. My last long term full time job ended in Dec 2001 and I have been working piddly temporary junk since. I do self employment and am tolerated by my repeat customers because I am good at what I do. I have gravitated towards building, repairing, cleaning, etc. computers and I am also learning how to tune and repair pianos as I seem to have a nack for fixing them without even knowing anything about them. I do NOT receive welfare, food stamps, SSI, etc. I just live day to day and work out what I can.

The discovery of ASD has been a tremendous relief for me. I can stop pretending, start understanding and work towards a socially viable medium that will not make me miserable.

I will have many questions and I may fall into the trap of trying to joke or create laughs, as I have with ppl in real life, because that's what I've considered as "required" for so many years that it's become a dull, bitter habbit.

Oddly enough I am fascinated with some rpg as it seems to be one huge interactive puzzle to me, and I am tolerated better on the ones I am working with than I am in real life, sometimes I become obsessed with one part of a game or another and spend too much time "solving the puzzle". I love number games, animals, and fixing things. I love music. Beautiful music makes beautiful pictures. I am teaching myself piano, guitar, and saxaphone. I also love languages. How a language fits together is like a puzzle that fascinates me.

Hope to make some friends who can put up with me around here.

FM

Hello! Normally I don't like to point out spelling errors, but you put too b's in habit, so I read it as "hobbit." I read your sentence as "a dull, bitter hobbit." And for some reason, I felt like sharing this with you. Sorry.

It's really cool that you can tune and repair pianos so naturally. That sounds like a neat talent to have. What kind of rpgs do you play? I love them, too! What's your animal of choice?

Hi there. Fellow adult aspie and animal lover here. I was just diagnosed a little over a month ago. I would say I like RPG but then people think I mean computer RPG. I am very old school like D&D on paper and LARPs. I never did move on to the computer kind as I have poor fine motor skill coordination.

Anywho, before I begin to ramble, welcome!

Hello and welcome
I am recelntly diagnosed AS. Didn´t know what rpgs was until I lookd it up ( non native english speaking). I find that world facinating, but have no time for that kind of thing, due to too many kids on my hands.

thank you for the welcomes. Given the size of my feet and the quantity of hair on them I guess I could be considered an over sized hobbit, but no, it was my keyboard. Sometimes it gives double letters when I type too fast. Sometimes when I type too fast I start typing different languages also and have to try to correct myself.

I never had the opportunity to try D&D as as a child because we moved a lot and lived in the high risk areas of the towns. Most children in those areas were more concerned with selling drugs or avoiding gangs. The lack of structure drove me nuts and I have been called anal rententive for my efforts to structure my life as an adult. I have unsuccesfully tried multiple times to be a spontaneous person but it doesn't happen well.

I prefer rpg that have reality based aspects and with a fair share of "puzzles" or quests as they are called. I play mostly open source (free membership) and provide donations as I am able.

I have several animals of choice, all contrary to one another. The deer, squirrel, chipmunks, ground hogs, raccoons, fox, and several of the birds in the area are pretty friendly to me. I also rescue dogs and cats. If I had the land and means I would open an animal rescue and include wildlife, horses, donkeys, cows, rejected domesticated animals, etc. But my experience is confined to dogs and cats for rescue. I have rescued a bob-cat, fox, blue jay, and raccoon but immediately transported them to facilities that are trained and equipped to help them then return them to the wild.

FM

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Hi there, I've quoted the parts that I was going to mention about myself.
eh cheers mate, hope your ok with it. I did not realize this asperger-thing was something other people than me was dealing with. A little simularity and relation among us 'crazy' and within the asd-spectrum, that i know of, but all these people having the same eh things (but sometimes very different) that I have, was unkown to me until this summer-ish. I know that I have managed to put some issues asides until after the diagnoseverdict, but Im very interested in facts and I wonder if I just didn't care, or actually supressed this from my head, or the least possible, i did not check it, or heard of it. Im gonna check out more of this site.... I am basicly overwelmed, I got a lot on my mind and I think im gonna stop hiding and underachieving and and and and f*****ng express myself like I know I can.
C U

Hi FlanMaster, Welcome to Wrong Planet!

welcome to the forum