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A brief introduction: I'm coming up on my 33rd birthday, I'm a software engineer, and I believe that I have AS. I recently filled out one of those little 20-questions things on Facebook, and a friend of mine who has AS expressed his belief that I might be AS as well.

According to my friend, more than half of my answers on the survey were dead-on indicators for AS. After educating myself on the topic, I've come to the conclusion that it is very likely that I have AS. I've been lurking this site for a bit, reading the articles, and I'm amazed by all of it.

It's weird though... all my life I've thought I was weird or different, but I thought it was my own unique weirdness. The kind of thing that, once you own it, you begin to take a perverse sort of pride in it. Now I can see that there's a name for this thing... while I am relieved that there are resources and other folk with the same experiences, this thing is no longer uniquely mine. I'm still coming to grips with that... I dislike being easily classified; don't know why but there it is.

Anyway, guess I'm rambling. Point being, I'm very glad to be here. I probably won't rack up a huge post-count, but I thank you all in advance for the help and support.

Welcome in and join us! Good luck with your discovery with whats AS in You!

Welcome! Post when you have something to say and don't worry about the number of posts you have. Unless you don't like being an emu egg, in which case you'll have to build up your posts. I think my favorite so far was the next step up which is a tufted titmouse.

Welcome to WP!

Hey Uniquitous, I'm new too. Nice to meet you.

I know what you mean about taking a perverse sort of pride in it. I always say "embrace dorkiness" It's great when you can just be how you want and say "Yup, I'm a geek!"

Yeah, and I'm still unique, just like everybody else.
I enjoy geekiness and geek culture too! I guess I'm in the right profession for this syndrome, eh?

Welcome greetings to Wrong Planet, fellow-traveler Uniquitous.

Hi Uniquitous - welcome to WP!

At least you can take comfort in the fact that AS - being on a spectrum - is different for everyone who has it. No danger of being easily classified!

You may get a better idea of your particular flavor of AS by taking the Aspie Quiz - it has many more than 20 questions.

Classification is just a mental pigeonhole to help people achieve a level of focus on - wrap their heads around - something in order to process it's specifically unique aspects (Crike! That was a mouthful - harrumph harrumph). It doesn't reduce all that you are to that one thing. We here may all have Aspie characteristics, but those reveal themselves in ways distinctly unique to each individual. We are all human (I assume), but that classification does not reduce us all to simple and identical lumps of protoplasm. Fear not - your weirdness is as uniquely yours as it ever was. Now you have an explanation for why the rest of the world's population seems so incomprehensibly, obtusely dense. They don't think, or process information or stimuli in the same way you do. Unfortunately for all involved, their way isn't always superior, it's just the officially endorsed template.

Thanks for the quiz, Zeichner. Very interesting. The results further confirm my suspicion.
Willard: I think your words will stick with me. Thanks for the good advice.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome Home, Uniquitous

isn't it interesting, all our lives we were unique and brilliant and weird and extremely one of a kind. Now you are among your own kind and you (and all the rest of us) are another log on the wood pile!

Merle