Hi, I'm JulieArticuno, or just Julie..:)

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Hi,

I'm 32, from Great Britain.

I came here because I'm sort of all mixed up. To cut a long story short, I havd a VERY miserable childhood where I just didn't belong, got bullied and pushed out, and in fact this site's name "wrong planet" is PRECISELY how I felt at school and sometimes still feel these days.

I learned a TINY bit about AS a few years ago when an online friend told me she had it, and then about a month ago a non-online friend asked me to find some info about it as she is being tested for it. In the process of this, I was disturbed to find how much of the stuff found could relate to me, how many accounts of life by AS people essentially told stuff that I had been through-bullying, having to be TOLD I was beung teased because I didn't know, trying to make friends and people not wanting to know, not making eye contact, my constant obsessions that my mother hated. I could go on and on but I won't. Just suffice it to say that if I have AS, it would explain an awful lot about my life and friendships (or lack of) that I have so far not found any answers to.

After visiting some more sites and speaking to a few AS-people online (who said I should get tested), I wrote to my doctor on 9 June asking to be tested for AS.

So now, I'm playing the waiting game.

Well, if you want to know more, ask away.

Julie

Hi! Welcome to WrongPlanet.

It sounds like you've taken some good steps towards getting everything sorted, and I wish you the best of luck.

Mary

Hello!
I reckon you're in good company here; your childhood sounds pretty familiar and I bet it does to lots of people here also. Good luck with your diagnosis, and with finding those answers.

Hi Julie. Welcome to this here WrongPlanet. Hope you like it here.

Even if you don't have Asperger's syndrome, you'll probably find that you can relate fairly well to the rest of us. (Sounds like it so far)

Hello and Welcome!

You will find that tale told again and again! It's a feature of the discovery, along with stumbling across other people who think like you, in places like this.

Welcome to WrongPlanet,

From another Brit.

Chris Brown

Hi Hi
Sorry didn't say hi sooneer

You say you've had a lot of obsessions. is aspergers one of them?

Raph522: No, but the way it's going, it might end up as one! I've already decided if I get a positive diagnosis I'll write the story and send it to a women's magazine-if it helps even ONE person who's got it and is undiagnosed, and it helps them, it'll be worth it.

Emettman: I also found a RL friend with it and she yold me about how everyone else's interests at school sent her to sleep but no-one understood hers. I told her "You have just told ME what it was like at MY school! Even the boring interests of everyone else around her-boys, discos, make-up, fashin- were the same!
Nice to meet another Brit! (Rachel-Lugiagirl's a Brit, too!)

Thanks for welcoming me, everybody!

Julie

Hello, welcome to the realm where normal things hardly ever happen

Thank you!

What the f*** is normal? So-called "normal" is WAY overratred if you ask me! Look at "normal" society? If it's "normal" to have a society where paedophiles, rapists, muggers ETC get off lightly (and societry seems RIFE with them) then I'll take abnormal anyday......

Julie

Hello from another Brit, living in SE London.

I, like you, am in the process of seeking assessment and possible diagnosis.

Good luck with it and let us know how you get on.

hiya ,

me is also fom the UK

getting DXed soon i hope

jammie

Hi Julie-I'm a Brit too.
I'm here because I'm positive my partner has AS, and your story sounds a lot like his.
You're going to love it here!

Hi Julie. Welcome here!

Thank you all for your warm welcomes. Nice to see some more Brits.

Adversarial-where abouts in London do you live? I live in Stratford, East London.

Julie