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Hi there.
27 year old Norwegian with a fresh diagnose signing in. Finally I know why I'm weird. The only backside is that now everybody talks to me like im retarted
I quit school when i was 12 due to illness, and from I was 16 until a couple of years ago I constantly tried schools and new jobs, but nothing worked out. Always because of all the necessary interaction with other people. My last attempt was trying to become a truck driver(I tried a lot of different things, mostly out of desperation). I was the first one in class to finish the theory, and the first one to quit when it came to driving and I had to take instructions from someone. That's usually how things have worked out so far.

So about a year ago I finally looked for help, and a couple of months later I got an Aspergers diagnosis. Now im kind of without direction, so I've started travelling a bit around Europe on my own and seeing all the historic places I've been reading about for so many years. Now people all over Europe thinks I'm weird, but thats fine Being Norwegian, with all our oil, gives me the advantage of being able to travel, altough when I'm at home I basically can't afford anything. Poor at home, rich abroad. In an ideal future I'll go to university and study history or political science, but my previous failed attempts at keeping jobs and going to school have stopped those plans for a while.

Well, thats basically my aspergers-related story so far. I've never written in a forum before, but I've also never met anyone on the autism-spectrum, so It's kind of interesting reading about how others see it.

My nickname is a ten year old random name btw, I don't see my self as the master of autism

Welcome! Nice pig.

Hi, welcome to wrongplanet!

Thanks! The pig is (or rather, was, unfortunately) awesome. People shy, and weird(even by pig-standards), just like me. Plus he was named after the general that won the first major victory against the nazis, Carl Gustav Fleischer

Hello and welcome to WP.

I also thought the pig was cute.

Hello there sadmaster. Welcome to WP.

I'd love to visit Norway, by the way... but the expense rather puts this Brit off.

Welcome here...

Posting on a forum can be real fun or inspiring or you can learn things here... just take your pick.

Have you tried already education for adults or long-distance learning? It has the advantage that minimal interaction is required.

It puts a lot of us off as well:) And the problem with tourism here is there's almost no budget options availible. Plus long distances to travel to get anywhere, with steep prices for travelling too.
It's basically Oxford street prices everywhere. We should switch homeplaces for a while. I'm a bit of an anglophile:)



No, not yet anyway. I'm thinking about doing our high school equivalent long distance. At least according to my friends, I would have an easier time in college than high school, since it's more up to yourself how you study, so if I could just get the high school overwith, that would be nice. I read my friends books from university anyways. Then the problem of getting and keeping a job starts, but I have a feeling working with something i actually care about would be something else than all the menial jobs I've had to try so far. Plus it would be nice to not be the only one of my friends without an education either way.

Sorry, asdmaster - did I misread your name or did you get it changed? I apologise if I did because my reading of it could be taken to be a bit of an insult!

I'm reasonably well acquainted with Scandinavian prices, having holidayed in Denmark twice and spending a few hours in Finland. It's expensive but as Scandinavians you know well enough that it can be mitigated if you do your research. I learnt relatively quickly that buffet places in cities are where it's at if you want to eat relatively cheaply. Pick a good one and the food can be pretty special too for the price.



Tell me about it.



That's the thing with a country like Norway - it's so big that it really does need an inexpensive, efficient transportation network to have a chance at developing a decent tourist industry but no-one seems interested in doing it.

Norway is over one-and-a-half times the UK's size with just over 8% of Britain's population. In a country as sparsely populated as that, it's clear that there isn't really a demand to make tourism a big seller, and in any case, most of Norway's people live in the big cities.

So I'd like to visit and all - I like the Scandinavians as people and I like their culture a lot, it being quite similar, but...

I must admit, I'd like to visit Bergen but perhaps another year.



Most of us in Northern England avoid places like that for a reason and one of those reasons - as you say - is that it's very expensive.



I think the rest of my family might have a bit to say about that.

I gather that Anglophilia is very common in the Nordic countries. It doesn't flow so much the other way but I do enjoy visiting.

To WrongPlanet!! !

Yeah, I don't think you want to stay at my place anyway. Theres a bit of a shortage of places for rent at an affordable price. So being single, in my price range you end up in a place like mine. Full of alcoholics and eastern europeans(who are the only ones in my building actually working ) They are all nice people mostly though, just not a place for vacation.

A lot of Anglophilia here, that's for sure. I guess that's the result of Premier league, british humour, cheap flights to London and music. In my case growing up it was the occasional weekend in London, Liverpool FC and Oasis.

To be honest, living in Norway you should be able to pick up real British television as live through a satellite dish, or if not that, through an Internet service. You're near enough to the UK to do this.

That's not a bad idea actually. Where I live now sattelite dishes isn't allowed, but im looking for a new place these days so I will definitely check that out once i find a place. Theres so many great shows over there. Like The Office, Peep show and Ideal to mention a few I like. And I've started watching Big Brother UK. I was in serious need of something new to watch a couple of years ago and got hooked. Myself from three years ago would kick my own ass for watching Big Brother, but hey.

Do you have an address in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland or know someone friendly that would be willing to help out? If you do, that would be the easiest way to get it. There are other ways, too, though. Basically, Sky don't give a stuff as long as you can provide them with the dosh.

I don't have an address there, but my parents have lots of friends there. They live in a caravan and drive around Europe(living like gypsies ) Two of their best friends are from Scotland and England. Him, a Scot who claims he hate the English, and his wife, who is English So there's a possibility of some friendly people willing to help out there. Getting Sky would be nice though. I already have BBC, so another British channel might be enough for me. I don't watch that much TV, prefer reading.

Which BBC channels do you have - all four of them or just BBC One and BBC Two?

The other non-BBC channels aren't up to much unless you are very fond of low culture.

Typical example of British 'low culture':

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJfVTnSDCE[/youtube]

Knock yourself out.