I joined Wrong Planet in 2012 what it has meant for me

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I was was just under a year redundant from a job is which I was bullied and I really felt worthless and I wanted to die.

Skip forward I am in a new job and I take no **** and I have learned to drive and become quite good at it.


I am a content individual bordering on happy.


I am confident in my abilities however I know I can not form relationships or make friends without great effort.

My autism is something I have to work around not something that ruins my life anymore.


This post is aimed at people at their lowest point things do get better.

Getting motivated might not make you feel better but it will keep you busy and when your attention is somewhere else your effort pays off that is my experience.

Even though You're more than twice my age, I feel I can relate to Your struggle, congratulations on pulling through the s**t and getting out stronger and better, this post made me feel a little better today.

That is the whole point if I can do it you can all do it.

I and want people to be as happy as they can be.

By the way your being kind I am nearly 3 time your age.

hear, hear!

Good for you Shark Attack! When I joined WP I was totally socially isolated apart from family contacts, recovering from serious illness, dealing with late-realisation of my aspieness in isolation. WP helped me put things in perspective and move to the realisation that I wasn't a failed NT, I was a successful aspie. Gave me that input so that I could stop judging myself by NT standards and that really helped, as did not feeling totally alone with the issues I will always have to deal with.

From being isolated I am now a member of 5 groups, (internet and meet-ups) and though the transition to social connections hasn't been easy - and still isn't - WP has been an important background factor in building up enough self-acceptance to try again to make friendships and break out of my social isolation.

I was always "pretending to be normal" before - not with good results (of course) and now thanks to WP that kind of self-defeating behaviour is at an end. It's also helped me look back at the past and realise some of the social faux pas I have made (cringe) and increased my self awareness and that's all a plus.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE posts like this! I am too happy to know what else to say.

Good on you B19.

Happy WPea Brithday!

Thank for the pep sharkattack, always need it where its given.
Congrats of your achievements.

A good positive post...well done Sharky

Threads like this give me hope.

Couldn't agree more.

It's about accepting and understanding yourself to be successful despite having an autism spectrum disorder. We get caught up dwelling on our shortcomings and it drags us backwards.

Well done sharkattack.

I'm glad you have managed to sort your life out.

Well spoken, Shark.

While a lot of could do better if they only tried harder or tried at all this is not true for everybody. While I truly believe you want everybody to be happy and it does seem to "inspire" people a lot of us have heard this "inspirational" logic repeatedly from people who have been condescending towered us so we associate "inspirational" logic with people being condescending towered us. For others that type of logic backfires, it has the opposite effect of its intent. I guess I fall into the latter category. Before I was diagnosed I used to be very angry at myself because I would often see and hear inspirational/ just be positive attitudes doing miraculously positive things for people. It certainly seemed miraculous to me because these type of things always made me feel worse about myself. I believed it was a grievous personality deficit on my part. Since my diagnosis I just accept it as just another thing that makes me different then most people.