New and needing a bit of techinical help..

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Hey all, this is jswan from TN. I just joined this evening, and embarrassingly, I already need help. For some unknown reason, I cannot get my chat id to show up as anything other than Anon, although I have a username. Any pointers?

As far as my history, I've thought for a long time that I've had something "not quite right" about me. The analogy of being on the "wrong planet" is a pretty accurate one. I felt like I was head and shoulders above many people in the realm of cognitive ability, but terribly behind on social skills. After reading about AS, I had a long conversation with one of my parents and found out that I had exhibited nearly every indicator/checklist item of AS as a child. Finally, I had a name to this--my long time struggle with social interactions, my obbessive focus on hobbies and ideas, and my all-around quirkiness. Although I know I'm a work in progress, it's a relief to realize I'm not alone, or, for that matter, crazy.

Yours,

J

Welcome to WP!

Hello and welcome! Yeah, your story sounds familiar to me

It'd be helpful if the chat page explained things a bit more because loads of people seem to have the same confusion as you. Basically the "chat room" isn't really connected to this site and actually runs on the venerable old system known as IRC, on the freenode network which handles thousands of different chat rooms. The "chat page" on this site merely has a java app which lets you interface to that system.

When you enter the chat you are given a default nickname such as Anon123 - you can change it by typing the command
/nick jswan
(Although you may find someone has already registered that name on freenode, so you might have to get creative!) You may have to be patient with the chat room - even with 100 people supposedly logged in there it is sometimes pretty silent, or alternatively there may be some kind of battle of wills raging between a few grumpy aspies!

woodenboy.

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Wrong Planet forums, jswan.

Hello and welcome to Wrong Planet. I am always looking for new friends, so feel free to send me an instant message on one of the services listed in my profile.

Enjoy your time spent at WrongPlanet.net!