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Hi. I joined a little a couple weeks ago, but am just now getting the courage to start posting! I'm a 21 year old female living in southern oregon who is just discovering aspergers. I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder. I had no idea what aspergers was. Around Christmas my younger sister(age 17) started randomly bringing up aspergers in a joking, but not way. (I am very close to her, her and our mom are my best friends). I didn't really know what it was, so I just shrugged it off and didn't really think about it too much. Then on a forum I post on for avoidants someone posted an Aspergers test thing that I took randomly and got a really high score. I told my mom and sister about it and we googled aspergers. The more I read the more it made sense. I since have read a lot on this forum and have read the book Aspergirls and I am currently about halfway through Attwoods complete guide to aspergers. I have talked about a lot of things with my mom regarding how I was when I was a child. I am actually shocked none of my teachers ever thought I might have it with how I was.

Reading the books and this place have described so many big things about myself. Even little things I never thought would be connected. It's so amazing seeing people talk about the things I have always dealt with but never understood. I always thought I was not a whole human. I've described myself as 3/4 human so many times because I felt like there was some unknowable quality that made everyone else seem to get a long and interact so well. Now that I'm starting to learn there may be a reason for how I have felt, it is liberating, but at the same time confusing. It's hard to explain...

I have made an appointment with a psychiatrist who supposedly has a lot of experience with aspergers and autism. Her first available appointment was late April, so I have time before then. I figure I'll just read and learn as much as I can about aspergers so I can go in there with some idea of what to expect (hopefully...)

Anyways, I have probably typed way too much, so sorry about the rambling. I just want to introduce myself!

Hi Nayru! Welcome to Wrong Planet! Check out the forums here. They can help you with all sorts of things. You are among friends here at WP.

Welcome - hope you find what you're looking for here

I had no idea what it was when I received my diagnosis so you're not alone there, I also suffer from anxiety disorder I find this forum to be very helpful in building awareness and understanding. You're not alone and you'll find you can relate to people on here better, feel free to message me at any time.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Thanks everybody :]

Welkome to WP

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Welcome to WP, Nayru-sama, Oracle of Ages. May your wisdom spread across the world and bring all to enlightenment.

(Don't think I don't recognise that name. You're talking to a die-hard fan here)

hahaha that made me laugh because i know EXACTLY what your talking about :p
i have oracle of ages, still new and sealed on display with various other nintendo junk.

Also have Oracle of Ages and Seasons, but not new and sealed as I have played them on my limited edition Suicune blue Gameboy Advance

haha, yes. I tend to use nayru as my name a lot, and people tend not to know it. It's nice seeing people actually get it, and also love zelda. :]

And I got my official diagnosis today, which didn't surprise me at all. So yeah. Thanks :]

Hi nayru. I am around that same age too and have been diagnosed with AS when I was 10. Tell me more about your past experiences.

Hi! :] and I'm not really sure what I should tell you! lol. Kind of a big question, and I have no idea where to begin. lol
What do you want to know? :]

Well, starting off, how do you feel trying to fit in?

I've always felt different than everybody, but I didn't know about aspergers until recently, so I always thought I was just missing some intangible quality that most people had and that I was broken or not quite human or something. I had never tried too hard to fit in with people I didn't know though. I never felt the need to be popular or anything. Mostly I just wished that I was more like the few friends I did have, so I kind of just tried to pretended I was. Which really didn't work out that well. I've always felt, and still feel, like I'm separate from other people, like there's a barrier between us... How about you? How do you feel about it?