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Hi all, I'm a 33 year old female who just finally got diagnosed with Asperger's after self-diagnosing and getting a confirmation from my shrink.

My story is probably similar to many of yours. I struggled throughout my life trying to figure out what was "wrong" with me. I suffered from bouts of depression and intense anxiety stemmed around not being able to figure out why I hated social situations while others handled it so seamlessly. I didn't understand why I couldn't keep friends and I just didn't fit in with others but I couldn't put a finger on it.

This was especially hard for me as a female because of the social pressures put on me to join the PTA or do tea and crumpets while talking about my nails when all I wanted to talk about was black holes and the string theory.

Anyway, after having my epiphany about this everything now makes so much sense looking back. I have can see things in a whole new light now and I feel great for one of the first times in my life.

So hello all, I'm sure I'll fit right in here.

Is it a figurative expression, or do you LITERALLY talk about these topics? Are you just interested in these things on a popular level, or have you actually studied physics professionally? What area of physics are you working at?

I am a physicist myself. I defended ph.d. two years ago and right now I am doing postdoc in India. Back in graduate school, I started off from string theory, but I didn't have a good experience with it because of various interpretational questions I couldn't really answer such as "how can string vibrate without consisitng of molecules that interact with each other". Eventually I changd topics to causal set theory and defended that. Right now I am working on interpretation of quantum field theory and actually am in a process of writing a really neat paper on this. I believe that, as a result of this paper, I can start "liking" string theory as well All I have to do is modify some of the framework of this paper for the string case.

Anyway, tell me more about yourself. Are you undergraduate, graduate, or postdoc? What level are you on?

Nah, I could never be a physicist sadly because math is not my strong suit. I only have a B.S. because I was suffering from both lupus and ADHD in college and I either was sleeping or I couldn't focus enough to read a paragraph in a text. Who knows how far I could have gone if I had these things under control. I have been out of school for eleven years now. But I have no regrets because I can now enjoy motherhood. Physics is nothing compared to that!

I do literally talk about these topics with the only other person who will listen (my father) because I am fascinated by them and all the Universe has to offer. I just watch the same science channel shows over and over and try to wrap my brain around some of the theories. I spend hours thinking about the complexities of the Universe and how little we actually know. The It's just one of my little obsessions. I guess I'm even weirder to NT's because I want to talk about this stuff and I don't even study it! I'm especially weird to others being a woman.

I'd actually love to see your papers as long as I can understand them without having to understand the calculations. I suppose they aren't in layman's terms huh? I'm not familiar with the other theories you mentioned, I'll have to look them up. I'm sorry I can't do much "shop talk" with you

Hello and welcome to WP! Great to have you aboard. I can definitely put myself in your shoes.

Welcome.

Welcome to WrongPlanet, imnotnuts!

Love the name
Hope you enjoy your stay here!

Good to see you. We need more sane people around here.

Welcome! Like you.. female, 33 y.o. got Asperger's diagnosis some months ago..
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