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38 year old Aspie here, diagnosed one year ago.

I don't think I'm here to ask anything, though I'll try my best to help others if I can. I'm looking forward to getting involved in discussions with you Aspies at large, both diag and non-diag. It's something I've never really done before.

I'll quickly summarise.

My diagnosis wasn't a surprise as my daughter was diagnosed a year before, and in reading up about the condition I quickly realised that it wasn't just her. I was also a whirling, happy, naughty, hilariously clever nightmare of a child at her age. I however decided school was my enemy at around 12, and made it my mission to get out by any means. In the following years I was expelled from 4 schools then a specialist unit for violent children before being completely dumped by state education at age 15, when they sent a letter of surrender asking me to get a job instead. In those years I'd left home 4 times, maybe more, and fallen in with multiple "bad crowds". With no qualifications, my route was obviously obvious, in various countries for a couple of decades. I hurt a lot of people('s feelings) and was generally awful.

I'm now self employed and successful doing things I taught myself over the years. There's no bad crowd, just a finely pruned group of people that I want to carry over to the Aspie half of my life. Onward.

Tsh. Well hello anyway. Scaredy-cats.

Hi and welcome!

Hi and thank you! =]

No problem. I can be brief but I mean well.

I'm intrigued by your 'obviously obvious' occupation that spanned the globe; it's not so obvious to me but I'm guessing it involved highly nefarious activities...

I was more of a quivering, mopey, inhibited child due to my own personal -- potentially aspie -- experience, so we probably don't have a lot of early experiences in common. I think the worst thing I probably did was eat crisps in class that I'd sneaked into my pencil case.

Glad to hear you seem to be in a better place now and I hope you find the forum enjoyable.

Brief is fine, thank you for taking the time to reply to me.

There were other things that affected how I thought about the world and shook the timidity from me, such as a violent, raging alcoholic father and repeated sexual abuse by another family member. I closed off and became cold and hate filled. Rote memory replaying adult hands on my skin and being too scared to stop it, etcetera. Well, it didn't really shake it from me completely.. The id is definitely still in there, tennis-ball sized and terrified, floating around under my ribs.

+Yes, neffs. Neff acts. Nothing primitive or perverted. And no pride about having done it either. Just a need to advise others against such a destructive way of life. I'm okay with representing what happens when such pronounced Asperger's is undiagnosed for so long, in a perfect environment to amplify the worst sides of the condition.

Much better place. My place. My cat. My work. My things; with zero help from anyone.

Thank you Cosmos.

Welcome to WP!

Thank you very much roomie =]

My thing/spiderweb:

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Thank you very much dude =]

Welcome voidnull!

Interesting representation of personality via radar chart. Where did you produce this from? I had a somewhat similar (but more broad) "personality" check at work involving the "Hermann Brain Model" to assess my thinking mode.

Thank you very much zreaper99 =]

The image is from one of the online tests linked to from the stickied thread in General discussion: title is "A list of scientific tests related to ASD" or something.

Awesomeness. I'll poke around to find the link for that

Yeah they're really interesting to do =] I intend to work my way through all of them eventually.

Welcome voidnull - I'm sure you'll find lots to explore and discuss in all the various forums here.