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I just wanted to introduce myself on here since I registered yesterday and wanted to take some time into writing this post. I'm not sure if I have Asperger's or some related form of Autism or not, but I always have had problems socializing with my peers ever since I was a child. In fact, it was more than that. When I was little, it often did not even occur to me that I should socialize with others and as a result had very few friends growing up. I am now on what is called the Autism Diet (or gfcf diet), which I find to be helpful when it comes to my ability to focus on tasks, remembering things, and having the desire/realisation to socialize. This means I cannot eat gluten or casein, and even though I have been on this diet on and off for several years now, it is not always possible to completely rule gluten and casein out of my diet due to sneaky food labels, haha.
To this day, I have a few friends and find it extremely diffcult to socialize with others. I'm a slow, careful person who pays maybe a little too much attention to details that don't matter which I know tends to annoy people a lot. I also find in most social situations I just stand out in so many ways that it would take a long time for me to describe. That's okay though, because I have realised what I really need in life is to reach out to people and take the risk so that I can experience more friendships than I have in the past. Maybe one day, I'll see about getting officially diagnosed, but right now I want to reach out and meet others who have similar experiences when dealing with the rest of the world.

hi, lucinda.

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Hi cathylynn, noxnocturne and CockneyRebel!
I just wanted to give more information about me.
I'm Canadian and I also love to draw. I haven't been drawing for a little while because of college and now work. But, I hope to start up with that again soon.

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Hey LucindaClown,

I know what you're talking about in a sense. I have been socially awkward my whole life and my diagnosis when it came fit me pretty damn well. The meds work and I'm much happier now than I've ever been in my life, although I have a select few friends I really have interest in maintaining. I actually grew up not knowing discretion really and not understanding why certain things shouldn't be said in certain situations and so on. I've also been known to be incredibly awkward in the situations I do get into, esp. dating. So I think I know what you mean about not having had a whole lot of friends. I only really had a few, and some others sort of on the outside but not really part of my circle so to speak. I'm very new here, too. One day old, really. Much luck to you.

I've always had problems socializing too. I made very few what I consider "close" or "real" friends over the years. A few years ago I had a couple friends that are brothers and hispanic, but they were more like acquaintances more than anything else. We didn't talk about our pasts, and I didn't really know much about them. But they were fun to hang out with, and played basketball with them a few years ago when they were still around. I hardly ever see them anymore. One is married, and has a couple kids. Lives in a different city all together, so we don't really talk much.

The very few friends that I grew up with I haven't talked to in years. Mainly due to because I moved from Northern CA, to Southern CA, and I didn't grow up in Southern CA. I had a few acquaintances in HS, but I never really considered them close friends.

I've been pretty much lonely the past few years, mainly because I didn't really make any real friends down here in my city. Though I wish I had.

Salmondaze, I went through hell in high school too and I also think it was because I was wrongly diagnosed and was not assisted with my learning problems in the slightest. I would spend 8 hours after school trying to get homework done because it was that difficult for me to focus. I tried visiting a school counselor about it and after about an hour of sitting in his office describing what was going on, he concluded that I was taking too long to do homework........ Well gee, thanks Mister!
So that basically was my high school life, and I did not have any time to make close contacts with anyone at school because of my problem. Also, I was only able to get 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night, which to some people might be enough but to me meant complete exhaustion all the time, every day.
I did do much better in college thanks to my being on the gfcf diet which I neglected in high school, because I did not believe it worked and also it was impossible at the time to find anything to snack on that didn't have casein or gluten in it.
Anyway, my point was that in high school and even a couple years afterward, I was very heavily depressed do to being bogged down by homework and not being able to concentrate properly on things.

Welcome to the wrong planet.

Thanks growlithe!