New to AS, new to actually acknowledging it as well.

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We felt pretty strongly that I had AS for some time, I didn't really register the confirmation of it. But I have a professor this semester who openly declared having AS and I felt a little like I'd had the first few non-guarded conversations with someone for the first time really ever.I guess the likeness between us and the fact that he told me that he'd picked me out on 'aspie-radar' out of the crowds at school before I'd even known he existed sort of gave me great pause.

It takes one to know one I guess and I know I am one but I haven't ever really assimilated that with my sense of self. Now I'm feeling a little dizzy and very insecure and certainly disrupted. Not that I qualify having met this Professor as negative in anyway, but now I really feel unsure of myself.

I did some reading and frequently my questions went unanswered. But it was recommended multiple times to seek out a community of people who are also AS or members of whatever umbrella terms are used in this sub-population.

So here I am and I guess I'll be creeping around your community to try and better understand what AS really means beyond the clinical implications. Maybe I can reconstruct my sense of security if I can just know more, or at least know more beyond the empirical. I feel very lonely right now, or at least self-aware of my loneliness because now I need to reassess it.

So hello. /wave.

- Mally

Welcome to the forum! I'd love to be your friend^^

Welcome ^^

*Waves back*

Hi Mally, Welcome to Wrong Planet

Hi Malanori! Welcome to Wrong Planet! I lurked here for at least a year before registering and have been registered for about 2 years now. I kept wanting to respond to posts here, but couldn't until I registered. This urge was in conflict with my preference to not be registered with every site I ever visit. They all want you to sign up, and I really don't want to be in that many data bases, especially when I sometimes only visit a site once, say to read an article. However, over time, I found that Wrong Planet was of enough interest to me to justify registering here.

It was a relief to me when I found out that I have Asperger's, as it finally solved the mystery of why I am so different. It also laid to rest the concern that I might be some kind of freak and mental case. Asperger's and the other Autism spectrum disorders are neurological disorders present from birth. We are not mental cases or freaks, but we are different. Some of us have trouble living in the NT world because of those differences. There are some therapies, treatments, and coping methods that can help. You will find a lot of leads on that here at WP.

Remember, you are among friends here at WP!