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Lemme tell you a bit about my life so far. I've lived in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky where the school system isn't quite up to par. At age 6 I believe I was diagnosed with ADD. Then when I was 12 I had a new doctor Diagnose me with ADHD. Of course these were both wrong, and my mother could tell that what I had was different. Finally a competent one came along and actually noticed what I really had and diagnosed me with Aspergers. I took a full examination and was properly diagnosed... In my junior year of high school. But I only barely glanced at the description of it. I actually didn't even look up much about it at all. Until about a week ago... almost 4 years after. Now I understand that all the problems I had and thought everybody had to deal with were actually particular to this. Don't get me wrong, even before I learned more of it I knew it's what made me me and I wouldn't have myself any other way. But to find out that all the problems I've had with my close friends. All the times my emotions were strained and tugged. All those times when my friends were mad at me for something I did or the way I said something and I had no idea what they were talking about. Why I had these weird things I did with my hands and all those things I got inexplicably interested in. I had so many unanswered questions and a week ago I got them answered. I understood why I struggle so much when trying to act normal and behave myself in public or even with my friends. I understood why my friends would accuse me of being a jerk or being mean when I never would have any intention of hurting them or anyone. I understood why peoples reactions always eluded me, and why I was always so terrible as discussing my points or wording things correctly. Why I would ramble on and on and on and bore people to tears with stuff they didn't care about. I struggled so hard just trying to be in the right with my friends or what I perceived as the right. And don't even get me started on my relationships. The one I'm in now is with an NT that likes to bottle up her emotions and hide them behind a brick wall. I love her more than I have ever loved anything, and she accepts me as who I am but because of the way she behaves it makes it impossible for me to know what she's feeling or thinking. As you could guess this causes problems. I stumbled upon (not the program) this site last night while reading up on Aspergers. I watched some of your video's and it almost brought me to tears. For once I saw people that I could relate to regarding that, that looked like they acted like I normally do, just watching those videos made me feel at home and I hope I'm not mistaken when I assume I'll be welcomed here. I hope some of you took the time to read that as I certainly felt better by typing it.

Most of us stumbled on this site while researching Aspergers, usually because we suspect we might be aspies.

I've noticed most of the newcomers here are younger than 30, and that's good, because it means you are getting answers to your questions, and support from your age peers that many of us old timers never had.

That is a good thing, and every time I come here, I silently thank Alex for starting WP. Many of us would be lost without it.

So, please be welcome here, I'm sure you will learn a lot, and you will also be able to contribute to this community.

rob

Welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet community, James0Zero.

Welcome!

Welcome!

I didn't grow up in Appalachia, but I spent my summers with family in Floyd County, Kentucky and went down to the Gorge to hike most winters (my favorite place to spend Christmas Day because it's so deserted) so I have some idea of what it's like where you grew up.

I'm glad you found your way to Wrong Planet. I hope you find your time here enjoyable and beneficial.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

You can probably guess that I was terrified of negative responses but then again I guess that's normal. I thank you guys a lot, just positive comments mean a lot to me.

Hello! Welcome to WP!!

Welcome!

A very special Welkome to WrongPlanet, with a K.

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Seriously thank you all so much for welcoming me. I'll try to contribute as much as I possibly can to this forum unless I get distra- Oh wow is that a new episode of freemans mind?...