Hi people, it's a great relief to find such a spectacular meeting place for aspies!
My name is Steve, i'm 25 and from Nova Scotia, Canada.
Interests: mechanics, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, boats/ships, history, skiing/snowboarding, the beach, campfires, music (play guitar and piano), art (I draw and paint alot)
I would say i'm at the mildest end of the spectrum. I seem not to share alot of the 'clumsiness' described in many diagnosis but I have almost all the other symptoms. I'm extremely unlucky in love and making friends is very difficult for me. Most people accept me once they get to know me. I have a very low tollerance for people that put others down and I let them know it too.
I just stuck a name to this condition last year and got kind of a diagnosis about 2 months ago. When I go to a doctor, I usually work out everything myself and they don't say much!!
growing up, I was severely teased and tortured at school. That ended in 1999 with me being stabbed in the ear and the whole thing got covered up clean....more on that later.
Although I think I had reasonably good looks....i've never been able to crack the code of 'normal' people. I used to get so frustrated with trying to get small talk and fads... Now i'm glad that I don't!! I have done alot of growing in the past couple of years. I never really graduated School but I wrote an exam and then later took some adult courses. I have been working at a frozen foods processing plant driving a forklift for almost 4 years now. I am leaving next fall to go to college out in western Canada.
I'll be studying to be a heavy equipment mechanic. Back in 1998 I was accepted into a technical university to take a network management course...my my!! Has my focus ever changed since then!
I do have a few friends, most of them quite eccentric. (engineer students)..some of them fairly normal. I've had 1 (one) girlfriend in my whole life. I have an issue with touching people and i'm trying to work that out now. I have always been a bigtime motivator for my friends and others. I have helped a ton of people work out their issues (mostly depression). My friends nicknamed me 'Dr. Carl' and joked that I was like a shrink. Well maybe I can bring that service here! I hope to meet some great new people. I hope you all enjoyed absorbing my incessant ramblings. When I write...it all comes out of my brain in huge clumps at once!
09 Dec 2004, 4:41 pm
