hello, I'm new (to this forum)

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Joined: 7 Jul 2011
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 3

08 Jul 2011, 12:55 am

hiya

just thought i'd say hi. ummm. yeah, well, i'm not diagnosed or anything, my younger brother is diagnosed AS, my mother reckons i'm the same, and i've always been a social outcast anyway. to be fair, i and my brother (youngest brother, i have another brother closer in age to me who isn't a weirdo or anything, lol) are very similar.

so yeah, late 20's in south scotland, studying away half-way through a degree with two more years of complete and utter crippling social isolation in a small southern town to deal with before i can hopefully get out of here and rejoin society.

never mind though, i learn things all the time

i was wondering really, do others find they've become more socially isolated as time goes on? over the last 5 years or so i've gradually just given up on going to parties, bars or coffee-shops as they're all just uncomfortable places to be alone in and if i'm going to be alone and uncommunicative i'd rather sit at home with the dog.

hmm yeah, so while I continue on my obsessive quest to learn everything i need to learn to establish a modern textile industry in an iron age society (i kid, but i do take life far too seriously sometimes) I've started to wonder about how I can manage to learn to live with people again. Probably the greatest challenge of all, after about 4 years of living on my own

anyway, yeah. that's me.

coincidentally, I have a blog, which will be of interest to weavers and of moderate interest to machine-knitters

HaitchTeeTeePee://weave4funDOTblogspotDOTcom

i don't know how to turn that into a link, maybe the site will do it for me, i don't know

cheers

-a

aha! spam filter says "ooooh no you don't! no linkee links for you mr potential-bot!" so i've made it like i'm tellling people my email address without being swept up by a spambot. I guess that filters out people who aren't really that interested or don't really have the time on their hands. or something.

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08 Jul 2011, 3:10 am

hiya there, humblebumble welcome to la cosa aspie nostra

humblebumble wrote:

i was wondering really, do others find they've become more socially isolated as time goes on? over the last 5 years or so i've gradually just given up on going to parties, bars or coffee-shops as they're all just uncomfortable places to be alone in and if i'm going to be alone and uncommunicative i'd rather sit at home with the dog.

you're surely preaching to the choir here.

it is much easier being a loner while alone than while amidst the social hordes. home in my hermit hole is where i at least feel welcome, or at least not rejected or given the cold shoulder by anybody.

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