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Hi, everyone. Finally worked up the nerve to join WP (it's been two weeks since I discovered that I have AS). Um ... Yeah, um. You'd think being online would loosen my tongue, but I guess I'm just here to say hello. Hello.

Welcome home. I first registered about two weeks after I realized I was AS, too.

I felt like I had died and all of the secrets of the universe were revealed to me. Well, have been slowly revealing themselves to me since the day you can see over there under my avatar.

I stuck around on WP since. It has been a symbiotic relationship. I wish the same for you.

Thanks!

Hi, my name is Svein Edmund, I live in Trondheim, Norway. I'm 15 years old, birthday in september, I was diagnosed with AS about 2 years ago. I've got nothing else to say, of course I tought of something but that slipped away, well whatever... Hi everyone.

Hey. I'm a 22 year old Filipino college student. I spent half of my life in the States and in the Philippines due to my dad's job as a lawyer and my mom's studies. I was diagnosed with Aspergers when I was 18 and was still living in Washington DC. LAter on, my parents confessed to me that I had been already been diagnosed as a high functioning Autistic back when I was 3 and they showed me my old medical records. I also researched Aspergers myself and I was surprised to see how much of it I had.

My main interests are languages. Other than English and Filipino, I can also speak some Spanish which I learned in High School and am still studying by myself. There's also Mandarin which I can speak better than my Spanish.

Anyway, that's all I got to say for now. Hope I didn't bore you guys.

My name is Ernie. I have brown hair and blue/green/brown eye color mixture. I rarely get angry, but when it happens most of the time I just bottle it up. I speak only English and use my right arm for most tasks. Sports use to be great, until I kept repeatedly getting injured. Music is for the most part, bad (I hate most music songs.) I live in the south, play video games, read, and watch TV.

I'm Megan. I was diagnosed as autistic when I was a baby, and the diagnosis changed to Aspergers when I was 4. However, I remained unaware of this diagnosis until I was 18, but it was a relief to learn there were others like me in the world. I thought I just had a really bad case of A.D.D. and a violent temper.

I grew up in a small city just outside of the DC metro area (Falls Church, for those of you who know the area), and I lived there until I was 17. During middle and high school I went to an alternative school, during these years I was completely isolated from "mainstream" society. I see this as a good thing, because I never clicked with the other students in my public school and I'm convinced my life would have been hell if I stayed there. On the other hand, the self-diagnosed "crazies" from the alternative school were all awesome people, and I actually had friends there. The teachers were crazy too, and the school MIGHT have taught me some skills necessary to function in NT society.

I would have transferred back to the public school for my senior year of high school, but then I moved out to the Portland/Vancouver area. I finished high school and currently go to college here.

I entertain myself mostly by watching Japanese animation (anime). I also draw anime-themed characters, and I think I'm pretty good at it. I like photography, and I take pictures of everything. I also love architecture and I'm planning to make it my major. But I also think psychology is really interesting, even though I haven't studied it much.

I would write stories or fanfiction, but writing is hard when I can't keep one line of thought for more than 10 seconds. Adapting to life is really stressful so I space out a lot. Sometimes I feel like I'm not doing anything productive with my life, and I want to improve on that. I do want the stress-causing aspie symptoms to go away, or at least figure out what's wrong with my brain and what's preventing me from living comfortably in NT society. I'm not saying I want to be a mainstream NT. I don't. I love being the weird kid, but I'm sick of not being able to turn my thoughts into words, concentrate on my schoolwork, adapt myself to tasks I'm not familiar with, or talk about subjects that interest other people. Basically I want to function as well as a normal NT, while remaining myself.


God, the urge to just say everything about myself is so overwhelming. I have a lot of random theories about the spectrum (which are all probably wrong to some degree, but oh well). I'll probably say them somewhere else. At the moment, my time would be much better spent on the math homework I've been neglecting for the past hour.

Welcome to WP, all new members!

Hi, Megan. Welcome home.

Hello Everyone,

I am a 52 year old computer programmer. I have fought this thing that shackles me and am in another weary spell. Hope springs eternal but the despair of futility is always lurking. My current job is precisely the enumerated fiftieth. I suppose it will survive but the precipice is always near. I have been ditch digger, hog hauler, restaurant manager, accounts collector, military electronic countermeasures, railroad tower operator, factory worker, hazardous materials transporter, engineering student, salesman, landscaper, heavy equipment operator, construction crew, route delivery, electronics franchise owner, religious radio DJ, male secretary, motorcycle stunt rider, business student and more. The turnover rate is much lower now yet every day is fraught with apprehension of saying inappropriate things with misunderstood tone and facial expression and earning disproving looks.

My current wife is my third and there is nothing left there. I am the oddball Aspie that desperately craves the touch of affection and gets none. All is naught but discord or stony silence. I have four grown sons whom were hurt because I was at my worst when they needed me most. There is some rebounding social amicability there now but I see them and my granddaughters rarely.

I have been in these throes since the six year old me discovered he could not fathom what the other children were doing on the playground or how to participate. The ten year old me that ran and hid from a birthday party my mother tried to hold for me knew that very day that some hermitage was the inevitable outcome.

Yet there is a part of me that wants to be immersed with people, that always tries to be outgoing and adventuresome. Other than low moments like this, I find humor in most everything. Unfortunately, it is lost on all but some fellow engineering types.

Alas. Pardon me my dark mood. Yet the solace of unloading on understanding people is loosening my chest as I type and I may sleep yet tonight.

Greetings and thank you for being here.

RandyJoe

Welcome to WP!

I'm Robert. 47, Birmingham, Alabama. I always felt I was different somehow. I found a poem once that started out saying that I walk along the familiar streets where I grew in a world where I don't belong, a stranger to even my friends and family. My copy of the poem disappeared, I don't remember the exact words.

My sister once had time on her hands at her job, and started researching Aspergers cause of the way I act, and suggested I might have it. She eventually found an occupational counselor who talked to me then my Mom, and concluded that I have it.

I fought against the idea at first, but getting diagnosed was a big relief, an "Ah Ha!" moment. Pieces of a puzzle coming together.

I am over educated and underemployed. I finally settled on an English major in College then pursued photojournalism in grad school. I got a job at a Newspaper in Mississippi and everything appeared to be on track, but the boss was the most horrible boss ever and I ended up being fired.

I learned I had a hearing impairment and started wearing hearing aids.

After a recovery and working fast wood and odd newspaper jobs here and there I went a School in Atlanta to study Commercial Photography. Being among other creative people there was one of the few times I've ever really felt like part of a group. The teachers were rude and thought they were doing you a favor by being rude. I dropped out and made a go at being a commercial photographer. Finally ending up in retail. While in Atl I had a relationship with a woman who literally attacked me when I stood my ground and told her not to run my life.

I moved back to b'ham, and went to school yet again to study web design, only to find that it was yet another rainbow.

I work at Macy's now on the loading dock. Currently taking a break from figuring out what to do next. That occupational therapist might help.

I am an agnostic, though I hate the term. I feel that Christians are too Eurocentric. There is 3,000 years of Egyptian history predating the birth of Christ. Were all those people doomed to go to Hell just because a man had not walked around in Palestine yet? Were the Neanderthals, who roamed the earth longer than modern humans have been around, doomed to go to Hell? Of course a good Christian is supposed to be creationist and believe that neanderthal skeletons are demons. I also say what, about the native Americans around at the time of Christ who had no Internet to learn about his message, who might not even have understood the ideas of Christianity because their thought processes and world view were different?

In my humble job, and currently simple life, I have found the secret to happiness, I am happy somehow, I think cause I learned to accept things the way they are. I get along with everyone at work and elsewhere. My Mother says she goes into the place I work, mentions my name, and everyone lights up. Yet I have few close friends. I go to an Internet networking group, but haven't caught on to how to network. I have a crush on a girl now and then but it is always "You're a nice guy, but..." Anytime I meet a soul mate they are either married, too young, too old, or one or the other of us is moving.

It is very possible that I don't get all the body language cues. I must not catch when a girl is interested and the moment is right, then I strike when the signal was actually of non interested.

I am also probably too analytical and intellectual for most people, and that is probably why internet dating has been a disaster for me. I look at people, but I tend to stare, then have to make the effort to move my eyes around, or I look at something else. People often tell me I am looking at their hair.

I am very witty, and like to joke. And I do get humor from others. Sometimes someone tells me, "That was a joke," but I usually attribute that to the fact I just didn't think it was funny. I go to parties. Sometimes I manage to get into conversations and have fun, it's like a lottery. I don't get the concept of working the room and talking to everyone. Usually I end up between two groups of talkers, left out.

I ll be thinking deeply, and if something breaks my though, like a commercial;, then I'll struggle top regain the train of thought. There was something I was going to add here, but it slipped away. But on editing I think I remembered it!

All in all, life if good. I have about 70 friends on Facebook so I get some things right.