Hello, I'm a 29-year-old male who is autistic. I don't have an official diagnosis, but I want to an adult autism clinic a few months ago and talked to the doctor there who told me that she believed I was autistic. That was when I first learned I was autistic. I relate to what I read about autism a lot; so I'm pretty confident that I have it. It doesn't affect me too badly anymore. I think I was affected mainly as a child. I still have trouble with getting overwhelmed by load music and have difficulty with some social events.
I live alone. My nearest relative is hundreds of miles away. I moved across the country to work for one of the major tech companies as a software engineer. I've been working there for between 6 and 7 years. I like programming, math, computer games, and driving. I picked BitRoad as my username because it combines my interest in computers with my interest in driving and roads.
Last summer I did a roadtrip down the Pacific coast of the US. This summer I'm thinking of driving through the Canadian Rockies. I want to take a roadtrip through New Zealand, but I think I'll put that off until next year at the earliest. I really enjoy this. I do it alone, but I post pictures to FaceBook and people seem to like them. I drive a relatively new Ford Mustang GT which I really like.
I'm a Christian, and that has always been an important part of my life. I go to a small church and they are supportive of me. I even lead the singing for the evening service. One of my quirks is that I really don't like popular singing like most of the songs you hear on the radio, but I don't mind church songs. I also have a slightly larger church I go to when I go back to my parent's house on vacations. That is the church I went to as I grew up. Parts of my family have attended that church since the mid 1800s.
A coworker talked to me yesterday about how they believe I work too much and don't balance my life enough. I also was recently at the dentist and my dental hygienist said something similar; so I'm thinking about going to a community board game night later tonight. I'm afraid that I'll just show up and no one will want to play a game with me and I'll just leave feeling worse than when I went, but I guess I'll never know unless I try it. I generally find it easier to just stay at work a lot and stay busy with that than to spend time on leisure, but I don't meet new people that way. Since I learned I have Autism, I've been trying to go out of my comfort zone a little. I went to an aquarium and an art museum. The art museum was really awesome, but I didn't really talk to anyone while I was there; so now I probably should try to find something where I talk to someone I don't know.
Anyway, I guess I'm rambling; so I'll stop here. Thanks for reading this if you got this far.
30 Apr 2016, 2:21 am
