Any aspies from the United Kingdom on WP?

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I'm just wondering if anyone else on WP is from the united kingdom?
If you are, feel free to tell me about yourself and make yourself feel comfortable

I'm superboyian... and i'm 18 and i'm from London as you can see below my avatar ... Been a member of WP since september. Ever since i've joined this site, ive learnt alot of myself and i started to know more about myself thanks to this site.... Not only that, i've also taken parts in forums and the threads are so interesting and the people there are so awesome, that's what made this site so successful

I've been diagnosed with autism when I was young when I was about 8 i think or a little younger and i've been having troubles with in school as I would used to behave badly in school... It did get to the point that I got transferred to another school and got put in the special needs section of the school... Which those days I kinda fairly enjoy. But it seemed so fairly normal to me.

Secondary school, I started to realise that im not living a life like a typical NT would of and I was in a special needs school.
I then realise when I was told that I had autism and I was 13. Since then, i've wished I had a NT life.... until I realised that being autistic has somehow managed to get me a place in college.

Now i'm doing an arts and media course in college and im learning and teaching myself how to become a NT in public but at the sametime, I can be as autistic as I want without being caught out (at least).

That's all I got to say for now...


superboyian.

[edit:] I thought about this to bring some people closer that are in this region (I don't know if this is a good idea, what do you think?)

Hi Ian,

My name's Rob, and I live down in Devon. I lived in London for a few years, but being a country boy, I couldn't hack it for long!

I didn't really notice I was different until I was about 10 or 11, which is roughly when people worked out they could pick on me and get me to cry fairly easily. This didn't work out too well So I started locking myself in my bedroom every evening after school, making up maps and inventing my own train timetables. It was the only time anything made sense. My mum thought I was doing homework...

I dropped out of school when I was 16, although I had the potential to go to uni, but my dad threw me out of home after a disagreement, and I kind of just got into drugs and raves. I didn't handle myself very well in social situations though, and I didn't really make many friends. Then one day, this dude called Jim saw I was struggling and went out of his way to be a friend. I learned a lot from watching him and how he would behave with people, and I started to work out how to be with others. Eventually I got a job, looking after severely autistic and learning disabled people (little did I know at the time that I was an aspie myself!) Everyone said how good I did, cos most people couldn't handle it, but I related to the people I was looking after - I learned a lot from them.

In the end I got a job in London managing this agency that organised carers for children with disabilities. It was an amazing job, but I got too emotionally involved in it, and I couldn't hack it in the end. So I disappeared off the radar for a while.

Since then I was a monk for a little while in an eastern spiritual order (haha!) - that was pretty cool, and I got to go to India and the USA, and all sorts. But I couldn't handle that either lol, so now I'm just a broken heap of a man, hiding in some rural backwater town, wondering what to do next. I'm studying to be a psychotherapist as well as doing a psychology degree (the lunatics are taking over the asylum...) Ever since I found out about Asperger, it's totally become my special interest. I'd love to work providing services for people with ASDs, as I think it's better if aspies run the services that are there to help other aspies. My other interests is electronic music (well, any music really).

Yeah, I think it's great to try and get a network going in the UK. My flatmate is also an aspie, and recently we went to a so-called "support group", which was rubbish, and we realised there's nothing really positive around for us. So it's good to do something.

Take care man, all the best, from Rob