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I was just diagnosied with AS about a month ago and wanting to meet like minded people. So just hit me up if you would like to talk.

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Welcome aboard greetings to the Wrong Planet, roughneck28.

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Anything in particular you'd like to talk about?

Are you on Twitter? I hang out with a lot of aspie frends there, if you're interested in meeting some of them.

Alphabetania I do not have a twitter yet but im think of making one soon. And for what id like talk about is just how other aspie see the world and just talk about anything I just love learning about new things.

O also do any other aspie out there have migraines or cluster headaches I have both and would like to hear how other deal with them.

Thanks for the warm welcomes from everyone else Its nice to know there other like me out there in the world.

Welkome to WrongPlanet.

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I think you are going to find a lot of different answers to that question, but one thing I think we all have in common is that we don't really feel that we fit in -- not in the normal sense anyway.

For myself I can say that I feel that I have a niche in the community, in society, and I want to be accepted in that way. I do not want neurotypical people to have the perception that I am like them, although I am completely OK with fitting in with their conventions under many circumstances -- for example, in how to dress to a funeral, or how to run a meeting. I can behave like them up to a point; it is not false, it is simply like speaking a different language for a while (and this can be tiring if I have to do it for too long).

I find most neurotypical people to be largely illogical, but have discovered more recently that many of them actually do think very logically, especially about social situations, but they just seem to do it very fast or by means of seeing the big picture or something, and so they can't tell you why a specific thing is the right thing to do -- they just "know it". I discovered this when I was speaking to a much younger aspie who had committed a faux pas at the dinner table. I found it hard to explain to him logically why what he had done was inappropriate. I think it was because having spent more years on the planet, I could see the situation in a fuller context more quickly than when I was younger, and retracing the logical steps was quite a convoluted process. When I was his age, I might have made a similar mistake.

Alphabetania what you said made a lot sense.
See what I think may main frustration is that before having my migraines and clusters headaches I could deal with more the social rules and stuff. But now after being on over 100 medication in the last 6 year for all that and all the things they thought I had ( depression, manic depression and Bipolar). I had to let the logical part of my brain have complete control just to survive because I just new deep down that's not what I had.

And now that I'm getting close to finding a way to control the 2 conditions (migraines and Cluster headaches). Its hard to let my mind switch back and forth between the pure logical mind and the emotional mind. Because before all this I knew I was different from a young age but I didn't care that's what made me special but I never let that get in the way of making friends. I had traveled across the whole US from the age of six months till 6th grade, because of my Dads job as a pipe-liner. And having the classic large Irish Midwest American family. So I back then knew who I was the family oriented, cross country traveling, extremely smart kid. But I could still hang with the rednecks and hillbillies.

Now I'm just lost on how to balance all that like I did before.

The thing that give me hope though is that my Dad isn't diagnosed but I'm also positive he has AS too and he is extremely good at what he dose and can balance being the Bull head roughneck superintendent at work and the loving family man at home.

But thanks Alphabetania that helped me today get me thought organized. But I'm getting out here I got go to my AS doctor to see what we are working on today.

Take care Roughneck out

PS Im going try get my twitter set up later if the invitation to talk to you and some your aspie friends on there.

I see you haven't been to WrongPlanet for a while. How are you doing?