13 Sep 2008, 8:04 pm
Greetings
I'm introducing myself. I'm 38 , female and live in Australia. I was only diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome this year. However I have thought that I have been Austistic since my teens. I read a magazine article about the actress Daryl Hannah having been diagnosed with Austism as a child whom I could relate to very much. Furthermore in my early 20's I did some voluntary work with Autisic children where I discovered a lot of similarities along with an affinity between us. Unfortunately Asperger's Sydrome was not an existing diagnosis as yet back in the early 1990's so I had no means to affirm my hunch. I have had other diagnosis and had to put up with default explanations about my differences to NT's. With my new diagnosis I'm currently going through an excelleration curve;for the first time I can start to learn who I really am. I'm looking forward to participating in the forum 
Cheers
MonstressTiamat
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13 Sep 2008, 9:19 pm
Nice to meet you, MonstressTiamat. 
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13 Sep 2008, 11:03 pm
Welcome to WP!
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14 Sep 2008, 12:03 am
Hi Monstress I started my journey of self discovery just over 1 year ago now, it has brought great depth to who I am and greater understanding of myself. I am now a very happy and proud aspie, but do realize society has along way to allowing for our differences, it can be difficult at first, but it gets so much easier and have found with acceptance came a wonderful new gained confidence and a whole new large extended aspie family 
14 Sep 2008, 12:51 am
14 Sep 2008, 1:39 am
Welcome to the Forums
L.
14 Sep 2008, 2:15 am
Hi Monstress, welcome to WP. I'm a 34 year old female living in Melbourne. I hope you enjoy participating in this forum. I've learned so much from WP about ASD, and love being able to communicate with other Aspies.
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14 Sep 2008, 6:02 am
To WrongPlanet!! !
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14 Sep 2008, 11:21 pm
I am also a fellow Sydneysider. 
My Interests are Electronic/Industrial music. I am also very much into Visual Arts and Cinema. I'm completing a degree in Sociology currently, trying to figure out humans. 
15 Sep 2008, 1:05 am
That sounds like me. I completed a psychology degree for the same reason.
Did it help me? It did to a point, however I'm still anxious in social situations despite having a better understanding of people.
I wonder if there are more aspies out there who studied in similar areas, I'm guessing there would be.
Good luck with your studies.
15 Sep 2008, 6:48 am
