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Old beat up NetSec Engineer 40+ years in age.

A recent diagnosis involving communicational issues with my family surfaced my introduction to Aspergers. I had been classically diagnosed as non-treatable ADD (drugs never worked for me, they just sent me into rages, and impulse control issues). No integral or formal college education, school was a near impossible feat for me, much as I tried. Even things in my narrow focus (dunno what else to call it) were hard, in a university setting. As a child, was abused fairly consistently, and by immediate parentage. Years of self destructive behaviour, and then I married. I have a young child. I work netsec, which means I get alot of alone time to myself, which is perfect for me, because I thrive working alone.

Areas of Interest (dont laugh at number 2):

Computing -- specifically areas involving vulnerability, packet analysis, sec auditing, and penetration testing.

Psychology -- for which I attempted to major in, during my 2nd attempt at university. Specifically areas of deviancy, Jungian concepts. Like any book, I just soaked up the DSM. A couple of times.

Literature -- Of nearly any kind. Pick a book up, no matter what it is, read the first few pages, dooms me to reading whatever it is. A work associate once tricked me into doing this with a Harlequin romance novel....that was the absolute worst thing I ever had to go through. As such I read an immense amount, 10 , sometimes 12 books a month. My iPad hates me im sure for all the books I force him to swallow.

Welcome! And congrats on finally getting an answer to why you are the way you are

I envy you, being able to read so much. I have ADD too, but in my case it makes it so I can't read more than one page without spacing out and losing focus

Reading is repetitive enough for me, that even though the subject matters change in reading them, I take naturally into doing so. I understand though, after having met a true ADD person (her husband would get up and leave in the morning, to return home finding nearly every faucet in the house on, dishwasher half loaded, shower on and still running, and the door wide open, and his wife passed out on a couch from exhaustion), I understand the issues you may have (atop the issue that they forced that diagnosis on me, so I understand how that treatment works, at least behaviourly).

Because FMX made a point of pointing this out in my general Discussion thread, Ill tell a little funny story, to which Im sure many will laugh (which is ok, because I myself laugh at it quite a bit even now).

A very long while back, I came into the possession of slackware install dsk set. I was a SunOS geek prior to that point, but it was mentioned to me at the time, that you could recompile the kernel on a Linux machine. This aspect fascinated me. So I went home with my stack of floppies, and sat down in front of my junky old P1-90 (32 megs of ram at the time), and started to the task of installing it. My old beat up Sparc 5 Im sure laughed the entire weekend (youll understand later). Well, I got to the part after the install that you can menuconfig and set all the kernel options. And I did that, and every time I rebooted the machine, kernel panic. So, what did I do? I just reinstalled the OS. I did this a successive number of times (that enumerated higher than 50) over the course of an entire weekend (my pitiful sparc 5 laughing himself to death Im sure). Mounting frustrations aside, I would hit the kernel mailing list, in which 3 things happened.

1. RTFM was spake to me
2. A portion of the documentation was quoted.
3. I was doomed ever to be called Compiled Kernel , for the rest of my life.

40+?
Your profile looks hardly a day over 39!

Give me a few months.

Plus the over 10lbs of inorganic material in my body makes me feel 10 years older.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welkome to WP

Mick