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action9000
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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.



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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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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.)


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05 May 2025, 5:36 pm

Welcome to WP! :alien:



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05 May 2025, 6:00 pm

See ya around the forums :)


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05 May 2025, 11:22 pm

Hi Tim,
Lock your centreboard down... It's getting gusty, but welcome to the regatta



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06 May 2025, 12:13 am

Welcome to Wrong Planet.. hope you find some interesting forums/ thread to join in,or comment too.


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06 May 2025, 4:49 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet! :)


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