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Hi, I'm from Argentina(spanish speaker), I'm 19 years old and I'm studing information systems engineering. I like drawing, videogames, animals, reading and programming. There is nothing special with my nickname, I just needed one to register.

I found this forum two days ago while searching about ways of thinking, I don't know if I'm an aspie (probably not ), but I have some social problems (I think I'm improving ) , years ago I thought it was sociophobia, I also thought I was bipolar until I read more about it ( like a lot of teens I thought that having changes of humor = bipolar no I'm sure I'M NOT ). It's like there is some need to classify myself. I've never gone to a psychologist (I remember my parents threatening me about sending me to one if didn't make friends ).

It's not the first time I end at an autism/asperger forum, last time was when searching about face recognition and it was the first time I had found someone with my problem, I need to meet someone several times to be able to recognize him, I can't remember my waiter at a restaurant because they all wear the same clothes, two of my friends at school looked the same for me at the firsts week because they both have the same hair color (now I notice how diferent they are)and I have problems making friends at university because I don't remember who was the one I sat by the day before, but I made some because once I sat by a guy with colored eyes and I could find him the day after (I looked for green eyes until someone greeted me xD), then he showed me his friends. Oh! once my mother changed her hair style and it took me about 10 minutes to recognize her (fortunately I noticed she was wearing my sister's bag). People say me I don't pay attention, sometimes I forget to look at people faces (once I had a conversation with a guy while walking, when he left I realized I would never know who he was because I had watched my feet all the time, I found it funny because he wasn't important for me) but when I look at them I don't know how to remember their face if it's normal. I recently began to recognize actors in films, I get excited when I hit, the fist one was Jim Carrey because of his funnny expressions, I was looking at a movie and then I tought "this guy looks like Ace Ventura".

Well, I will stop here, I shouldn't tell everything in one post, I tend to write a lot (at least in my language), I just wanted to say the reason I'm here, I hope finding some people with my problems/features and I also like reading about some things that doesn't fit me but I didn't know they exist.

Welcome to WP!

That's quite interesting. Welcome to WP.

Hi

Welcome to WP. You don't have to have any sort of diagnosis to feel like you belong here. You're sure to speak to many people you have a lot in common with.

You can expand on what you want to say in the relevant forums.

I look forward to reading your posts.

Mummy_of_Peanut

Thank you
I was going to put NT on my profile but I thought "I haven't been diagnosed NT neither"

I can totally identify with the face blindness. I'm not too bad with friends/family if they are on their own or in small groups. In a crowd I have to rely purely on hair, clothes or other distinguishing features unless they are right next to me.

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