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I’m 47 married with one daughter. I’ve always been an outsider and troubled by that. I’m clever enough to know I am different but not clever enough to be happy about it.
I am able to fake social. I work in a very people orientated Job and have managed by working hard to be quite successful in my chosen line of work.
I have however done this only because I have a higher than average IQ and I can fool people in to believing that “what they see is what they get”, when, in fact I am not, I have learnt, what I call “managed learnt responses” or “learning from my mistakes and faking it”.
I have two brothers, one on the spectrum and one pretty close
Two sisters, one on the spectrum and the other 100% NT
And a nephew who is a genius and very much on the spectrum.

I have dyspraxia and some dyslexia. I’m left handed and colour blind to 50% of colours (Protanopia) (Purple is just another name for Blue, green and red, if bright shades, I see as grey, if light-shades, then they are invisible to me.
I’ve lurked on this board for several weeks before signing up. And have posted nothing yet. Mainly because I just cannot believe how rude most of the posts are, how intolerant and somewhat bigoted the people on this site come across.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for being allowed to express opinions and do understand how difficult it is to tell, from what has been written before, the intent or meaning of the comments. However from where I sit a lot of people here are either not trying, or are just posting with the deliberate aim to be as rude as possible.

I’m no innocent on my first board; I’m a long time member of three or four boards dealing with my special interests, and even managed one along with a large website. I find it quite shocking the casual disregard for other people, and their personal emotional state that is exhibited by many of the posters on this site.
I would have thought people on a forum for people with AS would/could do better.

Cum Romano Romanus eris

If you are a stranger in a strange land, then it behoves you to follow local customs, and manners. We, it seems, are from a different planet but that does not give us any excuse to be rude. We are/should be role models to others, and not examples to avoid.

Robert Heinlein: "Whenever the locals rub blue mud in their navels, I rub blue mud in mine just as solemnly."
(Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, pg 461).

Welcome to WP! Glad you're here. Just remember, there are trolls on any board you go to. Do not feed the trolls. This is a great place, even if there are a few bad apples. Take care.

Welcome to WP.

Just remember, there are trolls on any board you go to. Do not feed the trolls. This is a great place, even if there are a few bad apples. Take care.

To WrongPlanet!! !

Thank you all (few) for your kind welcome. I hope to learn from and to share with, my experiences as a N-NT
(I hate the term 'aspie', smacks too much of “taking back an insulting and derogatory term” in order not to be discriminated against by others using the term.)

Welcome!

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