2ukenkerl wrote:
Mathgirl,
The only thing I feel is odd is that you call yourself mathgirl, and the special interest is AS! I would have guessed MATH!
Pervasive
Development
Disorder
That term makes one wonder what is going on. And Autism doesn't make it any clearer.
I'm certainly not going to REALLY tell people at work. They think I am odd enough as it is. I mean a stereotypical programmer is almost SUPPOSED to be odd.
I've chosen this name back when I was very interested in math and my interest in pervasive developmental disorder was at its beginning stages (I think I spent two full days reading about autism before I've joined WP). I had no idea back then that it was going to become my special interest.
The problem with this interest is that when I keep talking about autism, people start wondering what's going on with me. They start asking me leading questions. And eventually, I end up outing myself. Some people say that it's risky to out yourself to everyone. Nothing bad has come out of it for me yet, at least. But, on the other hand, it's probably unnecessary.
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Leading a double life and loving it (but exhausted).
Likely ADHD instead of what I've been diagnosed with before.