Late diagnosed, new to Wrongplanet

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Joined: 5 May 2025
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 3
Location: Canada

05 May 2025, 2:47 pm

Hi everyone!
I'm a 38/m from Canada, late-diagnosed at 31.

I've been on a journey to find 'my people', as I'm sure many others are.

I copy/pasted the questions from 'Questions about you' here, since that seemed like a good way to introduce myself! Coming up below:

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What is your first name? Tim

Age: 38

Location: Alberta, Canada

Hobbies and Interests: Game design, writing and listening to music, desktop computers, PC gaming, game modding, some science/space/physics, ethics, progressivism, and not taking things too seriously except progressivism, haha. I'm also starting to get a bit into D&D but it's impossible to find a group. I'd love to DM a game.

Why are you here? Socializing, connecting with people when it's hard to find my people.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): ASD, 2018.

Favorite subjects: Music, Education, Philosophy

Year/Grade: Employed full-time. Working on MA in Adult Education. Have a BA Philosophy, and a couple of college diplomas in IT and engineering. It's been a journey...lol.

Favorite music: Symphonic metal (eg. Nightwish), video game soundtracks, some techno/trance/anything novel and catchy.

Books: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (P. Freire), Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (P. Jarvis)

TV shows/Movies: Lucifer, Manifest, Evil, Stranger Things, From, Lord of the Rings, D&D Honor Among Thieves

Instrument: Bass recorder, keyboard, trumpet (all casually)

Do you like sports? I don't follow sports, but I can usually enjoy playing casual sports with the right group. It's just too hard to get enough people together to actually do it, so I honestly don't even know anymore.

Family: Just me. I prefer to choose my family - my favourite people.

Clothing: Whatever fits. I hate wearing brands.

How did you find this website? Google search for autism forums. I was looking for something smaller than Reddit, where I can maybe actually get to recognize and know people.

Job: IT and computer stuff (teaching, admin, etc.)

Plans for the future? Whatever is sustainable. If I can afford it and it doesn't suck, it's in the plan, though even that's a tricky bar to hit.

Last edited by action9000 on 05 May 2025, 2:50 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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05 May 2025, 2:49 pm

Ahoy-hoy.

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05 May 2025, 4:23 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

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Diagnosed ASD, ADHD, Tourettes age 5
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Feel free to PM me--I like to talk about most things other than sports

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05 May 2025, 5:34 pm

Welcome to WP! I hope you find at least some of what you're looking for here.

^{You were diagnosed in 2018? I wasn't diagnosed until 2019! (Now compare our ages.)}