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Ok, mad as a box of frogs here, and only just here because I almost failed yet again with the registration for this website, the catchpha things to stop bots, also stops me often, as I type what I see, but often the way the things are generated, they are ambiguous to me so I get treated as a bot. Highly annoying, but I guess I am in the minority, so what the hell, go with it like everything else.

Anyway, I am an old fart aspie, diagnosed at age 41, and that thanks to a university I was attending, not the medical profession who thought way too many different things over the years, but the diagnosis for me was freedom, freedom to be myself instead of what others it seemed wanted me to be, which of course I failed at, because well, I 'm not them, I'm me.

So, I am in a new phase of learning, instead of seeing my negatives over my past life, I am now discovering my aspie positives and believe it, there are many positives to being aspie, if one chooses to look at it in a different frame of mind from the consensus.

But I read elsewhere, as aspergers and autism is relatively new, what is known is known as the research goes along, which tends to be focussed on children quite forgetting of course all the adults who have got through life before being diagnosed, many of them have lived fruitful lives and been successful, therefore I believe aspergers as a different type of thinking is a natural part of humanity, we are meant to be here, as I do believe all the differences in thinking is here to aid each other, as just what would the world be if we all thought the same .

So perhaps for the parentage of the younger diagnosed here, adult aspies could be of use, as let's face it we have got so far in life, we must know something beyond the research which I understand does not focus on us that have been there and done it, which is a pity really, but perhaps the elder lot can be of help to the younger and those concerned with the younger via places like this.

Anyway, Hello.

Welcome to WrongPlanet, boxoffrogs!

Hope you enjoy your stay here

I too can never see what those blurry non-words composed of pretty much non-letters say. It seems like they're checking to ensure you are an extraterrestrial with the special power to read that jumbled mess and not just a regular human.

Oh and hello and welcome! Sorry! Forgot to say that!

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Welcome to Wrong Planet
Love your name.

Welcome aboard!

So I'm not the only one who has to press the "give me another one" button like 5 times to find a captcha I can see with certainty ??? Awesome to know!

I agree with you boxoffrogs, I've wondered why adults who've survived with some level of success this far with little/no help could have much insight to offer but are not studied by research. One would think that some good strategies and solutions could be found by studying that group.

Welcome to WP I love frogs LOL!

Welcome. I was 42 when I was diagnosed.

The other thing is of course how many undiagnosed aspie adults are there out there, as lets face it diagnosi only tend to happen when it is a person goes to a medical professional because something in their lives has caused them distress, and then, not always, because medical knowledge differs throughout the medical field.

I wonder how many undiagnosed aspies are out there living full and profitable lives, and perhaps this is something the medical profession needs to think about as well as those adults later diagnosed, because, could it be the current focus on the young with all these new disorders, is actually making a mountain out of a molehill, or to think cynically, in doing so, they justify their own continued salary and use to society.

Just to remember though, whence a child reaches the adult age, the medical profession more or less forgets them, as the focus is on children, ASD does not go away with age, certainly not at that all important time, the crossover from child to adult and the world of play to the world of working.

Welkome to WrongPlanet.

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To WrongPlanet!! !

If it makes anybody feel any better it took me four tries to register - twice, I think, I couldn't read the captcha, once I got confused by "nick-name" (do they mean username? What?), then I got confused when the page changed... etc. It's designed to make you feel even more incompetent than you do already, yes?

Yeah and I'm new too... but only 22 years old (but I value the wisdom of my elders as all twenty-somethings should)

Hello boxoffrogs. Welcome to WP!

When it is worse though is when the captchas are totally indecipherable by any stretch of the imagination, by anyone. Or when they're so difficult to read that it takes about seven or eight attempts.

boxoffrogs, your not alone, today took forever to get registered. Surprisingly when I went as far as trying it in IE registration worked.

I never even got that option, there was no 'give me another one' button in any browser I tried



Maybe because then society would need to realise that AS is not a new 'thing' and has been around a lot longer then many would like to think or believe. I haven't looked at many studies about it in some time now, been to busy with others, but might be something worth looking at more.