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Hello everyone. Like a lot of people here it seems, I read about Aspergers (a couple of years ago) and realised how well it described me, and especially how I grew up. It's funny, but as a kid you don't -- or at least I didn't -- ever realise your mind's working differently. I knew I didn't fit in, had few friends, and didn't connect well with people, but it didn't ever occur to me that other people had intuitive grasps of things it didn't even occur to me to pick up on. I got a lot better at social interaction in high school, mostly through the debate and IB programmes and having a really great, smart bunch of people in them who liked me despite all my difficulties, but it still sometimes awes me when I read about Aspergers and stories from Aspies and how much it really is how I am.
I'm just kind of rambling a bit, and I'm still not entirely sure what made me decide to come here and post this tonight. I've only ever even told a couple people that I'm reasonably sure I have Aspergers. I really don't want pity or scepticism about it, and I'm sure I'd get at least one from anyone I told. I guess at some level I just feel comforted by sticking my toe in a community where people write articles about the same mind-blindness problems I have, where people wouldn't think I was weird for always thinking it was too bright, or for having to leave a large gathering at intervals to keep my sanity.
Anyway, a bit about me if anyone cares. I'm a Philosophy senior in college and I really love anything philosophical and abstract, especially ethics, political theory, and theology (and related philosophy of religion). For sheer recreation, I like PC and strategy games and fantasy novels. Eventually, I want to go into the rabbinate, which is another reason why I don't generally tell people about being Aspie.
Anyway, I'm glad this place exists.

HI!! *big scary wave*

Hi!

Welcome to Wrongplanet!

I hope you enjoy posting here!

Welcome to WrongPlanet!

That list makes you a fair match for me (Add in some cosmology and physics too), except that I didn't quite manage to do a degree in philosophy (I couldn't see how I'd ever earn a living with it.)