02 Jan 2011, 7:21 am
Hello,
I've discovered this forum through wikipedia after having done an AS self assessment test which came out positive (34 out of 50 with an AS threshold of 32 and 15 average).
My nickname is Peppino, although this is not my real name, I'm 30 and really interested in understanding me better and feeling better with myself.
I've been coping with depression and anxiety for a very long time, undiagnosed anxiety and mild depression as a child which went untreated until I became an adult.
I'm currently under a light dose of antidepressants but I believe this could be part of a bigger picture such as mild AS.
Regarding AS, I never knew about it until I've heard somebody joking about it and that got me thinking and looking into it.
I'm a geek and always been a geek since early age (I loved drawing and making up mechanical parts of aircraft landing gears robots, devices since early age, and to this day I love aircrafts and am a big flight simulator enthusiast and develop flight sim software addons for fun).
Also, I do a job which requires strong abstraction skills, seeing patterns in data and mathematical and creative skills (mainly technical logistic and workflow solutions for digital visual effects). It's a computer job that requires multitastking, abstraction and the need to keep the brain busy with totally different complicated tasks running simultaneously (imagine running 5 complicated softwares at once). It's also a job which requires very few people skills.
I'm considered a guru at work with many people asking my opinion about software techniques because I can easily predict potential issues with one technique rather than another.
I bond with friends but am very selective about it, either I like somebody or I don't and true friends like me and know I'm a bit ackward.
I've always found difficult and don't really like social interactions, however I'm very good at spotting people's emotions by analizing their behaviour, but fail to show empathy unless logically thinking hard about the matter.
So this is a rough sketch of me, I live in London and would love to hear from you all 
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