Survival Skills, Secrets and AS

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As People with Aspergers, We have tried many ways to hide our differences, or to try to fit in. These are our survival skills.
This thread is a place to dump those things and hopefully be supportive of each other while doing so.
a fictional example is:

"I do not really like to play D&D, but I did because I was so lonely. It really freeked me out , and after I while I had to quit. Now I play online."

If you find that your diagnosis has given you the freedom to truly be yourself, and you would like to strip away all the stuff that we put on to try to reach out and make connections with the world, then this is your forum.

I would like to ask that we respect each other. That we do not use any information that is not our own outside this thread.

Thank You!

I created this thread because I have a fraud I have been perpetrating for my entire existence.
It makes me feel bad when I don't understand, or I can not seem to get it.

I come from a Christian family. I use the word God. But I have problems with belief. Since learning about my Aspergers, I realize I am (at this point) incapable of things like Blind Faith. So I feel better about me, and worse about this idea that I have been deceiving people. My integrity is subject!
I use their terminology, their belief system, and adhere to their standards to relate to them.
It has always felt hollow and intangible. I thought that maybe I was not doing it right. "They" seem to get so much out of it. I tried and I tried. I wondered what was wrong with me. Maybe there was no God. Such blaspheme from a girl who try as she might could not believe.

I am not starting a religious debate!

I could go on and on about the trouble this has caused me internally. It hurts now.
I wonder if others have this same problem with FAITH. GOD. RELIGION. (no need to answer)
I realize now that my Aspergers is why I struggle here.
Of course that answer only brings more questions.
It is nice to be able to get that off my chest. It was not my aim to offend anyone. This is my personal struggle. Someday, I will be able to tell my family and friends about my "lack of faith". Until then there is this forum.
Thanks!

Yeah I have the same thing althou I wasn't raised in a particulary religious family we went throu a breif moment of "religiousness", which I abandoned pretty quickly (I was about 5), and I've never looked back at it. I can never understand how somone could trust in the well meant intentions of an invisibla being.

Don't worry, you're in good company.