I'm new here. I was diagnosed with Aspergers and Depression yesterday. I'm fairly shy and also terrible with introductions (often vacillating between brevity and disseminations of rambling epics with no operable intermediate) but I just wanted to drop in and say hello. My life at this point revolves around chemistry, collecting archaic words, keeping detailed journals devoted to either of the aforesaid interests, reading and autodidacticism. My brain is pretty much a shrine to anything I'm interested in, and my social life is almost non-existent - for any number of reasons not excluding the fact that I value ideas and topics, over social interaction. I'm not sure what else to say about myself at the moment, but I'm happy to be here. I'd found it several times before anyone diagnosed me, actually. It seems everytime I typed any random thought based on some experience into my search engine, there was a topic on it here.