Firstly I'm not sure if I belong here,
I'm 30 years old and have spent my life trying to workout what was different about me. I have been diagnosed as Dyslexic, having specific learning problems and OCD. None of these seamed to ring true and I always felt like a fraud accepting the help offered to me for these conditions. I enjoy social situations but have always been wierd to my few friends and the many peopel I always wished were my friends. I went to colledge and got a degree. I ended up with a good job studying human evolution a particular intrest of mine but have really found it impossible to advance any further in nine years. I was lucky enough to meet a wonderful woman and marry her and really that is why I have ended up here.
She left me several months ago saying I had changed so much, that I didn't care for her any more and listed all sorts of things that I just had no idea I had done. Not least of which is that I had started spending more and more time on my various obsessions (ancient people and cultures, oh and tanks!! !) any way she has started contacting me again saying she understands me now and that she is sure I am an Aspie. I don't know but what I have read fits in.
My obsessions and social wierdness. Certain noises drive me mad, I can't touch food of a mushy consistancy, my OCD symptoms and anxiety, my dyslexia. I'm here to learn as much as possible so that hopefully I can convince my wife to return to me. I think she wants to but is frightened. I'm concerned, I'm happy to know what my problem is but am worried it is not what is wrong with me so I also hope to understand myself. Maybe this isn't wo I am but maybe it is.
Erny
20 Jan 2007, 1:33 pm
