Hi, I'm 24, male and I'm from Vienna, Austria (that's right, the same city where that Asperger guy used to work). I haven't been diagnosed with anything related to AS but I'm basically what you get if you take every single sympton of AS and throw in a little bit of depression. Or a lot, depends on my mood. I mean, what can an official diagnosis do for me? It doesn't make life easier for me, does it? Well, I guess I'm a bit scared to have it confirmed that I can't ever be 'normal'.
Currently I'm a student. What can I say, I'm not really great at anything I do. The one thing I'm good at is picking up foreign languages and scripts/alphabets, meaning I'm fluent in a couple of languages and can read half a dozen different alphabets and Japanese. Maybe that's my 'special interest', I don't know. I'm not so good at writing in any language though.
I tend to do a lot of travelling, typically twice a year for one to three months. I've been to dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. Great, you might say. I can't say that it makes me any happier though. But it helps me understand other cultures. My theory is that I travel to get away from my everyday life which isn't that great to be honest. I mostly feel empty and sad. And lonely, very lonely.
Hey, I'm sitting here in front of my computer on Saturday night at 1am. I guess that tells you more about me than anything else.
Sorry for my incoherent ramblings and for being such a downer.
Anyway, I'm glad I'm here. Seems like I understand what people are saying here which is more than I can say of most of the people I meet every day.