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Hi everyone....I am glad to meet you. Perhaps I can make some friends again, it's been a long time. Never married at 53 but have one grown daughter. I live alone with my small sweet poodle. I've been diagnosed with just about everything until I made the connection with AS. Really, I think the personality disorder and depression were compensating or merely coping mechanisims for being so out of place. I had behavior issues by age 4 but back then there was no help..besides I was an airforce brat and lived many years in Germany. Everything in my life was compounded somehow. I learned of a quote years ago...."People don't accept what they don't understand" And of course I was never accepted, even by closest family.Well...here I am now. A new place

hi there, i recognize myself in that, altho way younger, but ive gone forever and thought of myself as just plain awkward and weird for no reason, i tried to make it fit with depression, cus i didnt know of any other reason to feel and act so out of place.

i didnt even know about aspergers untill idunno some 3-4 years ago, and it still took another 2-3 years before i realized that everything about myself, i thought of as "simply weird" were clear symptoms.

i am now hoping for/awaiting a diagnosis, but i havent had the guts to confront my nearest family w it yet, since they have always sortof "accepted" me as useless and weird. i told my aunt, in spain (im in norway) my suspicions, and to my delight, she didnt think it sounded too unrealistic. i hope she breaks it to my dad and stepmother. i just want a definition to it, its tiresome to simply be "too weird" to function in society, cus people keep telling me to simply stop being weird, and to start behaving.

i fond this forum
<----- date, very recently, myself
this is a cool place, cus everyone is a weirdo

(my god.. i got 150 posts allready. someone put a lid on me soon or what?? )

To WrongPlanet!! !

Welcome to WrongPlanet, hope you get a wonderful time her

Her is a link to the Aspie test if you are interested

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Hi pleiadian I so agree with you, I often thought I was depressed over the years, but knew it was some think else, something was missing, and feel like you our moods, anxiety is partly due to not understood ourselves, or being understood in general. And I can not help but wonder over the years have I acquired a personality disorder or become a good actor (pretender) if ever I feel really low and someone arrives I just switch how I feel until they leave again, somehow its like part of my real self I still feel a need to kept hidden most of the time, maybe because parts of who I am over the years have found in general is not acceptable to others.....

I have been diagnosed for nearly 2 years now, while I am now able to understand and embrace self, many others in my extended family still do not get or talk about... art of my journey: Making Sense - http://asplanet.info/index.php?option=c ... Itemid=129

Welcome to that “new Place,” pleiadian. Great to see you aboard the Wrong Planet.

my dad is 46 and he probably never know that he has aspergers. or anything for that matter. he is still in denial. imagine reading books like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" "Men are from mars and women are from venus" thinking he can change himself to be normal. he is poorly coordinated and takes dance classes. it boils down to feeling guilty for being weird and alone.

understanding that you have aspergers and that it's genetic - that does away with self blame and shame.

my life has been much more peaceful and successful after finding out about my self diagnosed aspergers.