Hello, I am Steve

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I made this account awhile ago, but I think I'm going to start posting now I won't bore you with the details.

I am Steve (not my real name). I am a self-diagnosed aspie, and I would like to tell you the story of me.
I was born into a commune type deal on a hill in Yamhill Valley, Oregon. The communes main attraction is it's school. It advertises as an alternative teaching style, a school based on the works of L Ron Hubbard. The commune has horses, barns, a pottery studio, gym, soccer field and other things a school must have. I recently left the scientologist commune due to one of my interests becoming a problem. I also had isolated myself and had very few friends. I grew up with some of the other kids that lived at the commune and they will always be my friends. I have now moved now to a the first town I have ever lived in. I'm going to the public highschool. Things are going better, not as great as I want them to though It was not hard adapting, it was just very strange and bumpy. I have almost all A's. This is my life in a paragraph.

My diagnosis: One normal day at the commune school, I leave for a unknown doctors appointment. My parents don't tell me stuff, and all my doctors appointments are like this. I didn't think much of it. I tell my supervisor I have a doc appiontment and go home. I drive with my madre for half-a-hour. She doesn't tell me what the appointment is for, until we drive into a parking lot in a one story business lot. She tells me this is a different kind of doctor, she tells me this is a psychologist.
We get in and awkwardly sit on the opposite side of the room. I freak out silently about the whole psychologist thing. Scientologists hate psychology. All the kids and some adults talk of how horrific it is. We get called in. The Dr. asks questions that I could obviously not answer with my madre present. "Are you sexually active? Do you do drugs or alcohol? Are you depressed?" Being depressed to a Scientologist is considered laughably stupid.
After it's all over he says he's sure I have aspergers and says I'll need to take a 400$ test to be sure. Being told mental disorders are ridiculous, I was thinking how stupid this all is. I said "Why would I take an expensive test to find out something we already know? What would you do differently if I took this test?" We talked a little bit more then left. The ride home was very awkward.
I later took the online aspergers test. Forget the exact score, it was about NT=78, AS=141.
I should also say, what happened above was two years ago. I believe in mental disorders and psychologists now.

Special interests:
Agriculture
Mushrooms
Foraging
Computers
Drugs (not the ones that get you high)
Herbs

I have a lot more interests, but I didn't think they qualified as special yet

Any questions, concerns or comments? -Steve

congrats on breaking free of scientology. congrats on your good grades. congrats on turning down the expensive test. folks who question their docs tend to have overall better health than folks who follow blindly.

welcome to WP.

Welcome to Wrong Planet, Steve!

Thanks I didn't escape, at least not yet. My parents are sort of scientologists, they don't go to the church. A lot of the cool people I know are scientologists, that's one of the ways it's hard to get away from. They're great people, they're just scientologists. "Normal" people having stranger ideas than the scientologists I still talk to, so I happily overlook the fact that they are scientologists as long as they're good people.

Welcome, Steve.

Good job on passing up the expensive test. I would not have taken it either. What a ripoff!

Sweet greetings to WPea



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