26 Jan 2012, 2:14 pm
I just found this forum a few days ago, but have enjoyed reading discussions so much I couldn't help but join.
My name's Emma, I'm 22 and living in Sweden. I didn't even really understand what Asperger's and autism was before June, when I met with a new psychiatrist who wanted to actually help me rather than find a quick solution to my issues and send me on my way. After she mentioned that I scored quite high and she had put me in queue for an evaluation, I went home to read up. It was a strange and exciting revelation, to finally understand all these things I had felt and never been able to put my finger on. Ever since I started school I felt that there was something a bit, hmm, different about me? Not sure that's the right word, but this sensation never left me and I needed to know exactly what it was. It only took me a few years of being passed around between doctors before someone actually listened!
What else... I've lived alone since I was 15, and have moved abroad a few times and dropped out of high school. The last one is not a point of pride, but the school environment was terrible and I simply couldn't wrap my mind all the social aspects of it no matter how hard I tried. However, now I am back and working to get my degree at an accelerated rate so I can send in university applications and hopefully enroll in 2013. I love English literature and hope to study that in the UK.
And that's enough about me for now. 
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26 Jan 2012, 2:42 pm
Hello Emma, welcome
26 Jan 2012, 3:13 pm
Hello You have pretty hair.
26 Jan 2012, 3:22 pm
26 Jan 2012, 3:27 pm
My name's Emma, I'm 22 and living in Sweden. I didn't even really understand what Asperger's and autism was before June, when I met with a new psychiatrist who wanted to actually help me rather than find a quick solution to my issues and send me on my way. After she mentioned that I scored quite high and she had put me in queue for an evaluation, I went home to read up. It was a strange and exciting revelation, to finally understand all these things I had felt and never been able to put my finger on. Ever since I started school I felt that there was something a bit, hmm, different about me? Not sure that's the right word, but this sensation never left me and I needed to know exactly what it was. It only took me a few years of being passed around between doctors before someone actually listened!
What else... I've lived alone since I was 15, and have moved abroad a few times and dropped out of high school. The last one is not a point of pride, but the school environment was terrible and I simply couldn't wrap my mind all the social aspects of it no matter how hard I tried. However, now I am back and working to get my degree at an accelerated rate so I can send in university applications and hopefully enroll in 2013. I love English literature and hope to study that in the UK.
And that's enough about me for now.
Welcome to WP elliterations! Hope you like it here. I've visited Sweden twice but only very briefly both times.
You love English literature? Wow; I've not read much of it and not many people who live here have either.
Oh, yes, and I love your hair and, in case you were worrying, don't: your English is absolutely spot on.
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26 Jan 2012, 5:23 pm
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26 Jan 2012, 10:20 pm
Welcome to the wonderful world of WP
