Hello from Scotland

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Another newly registered user making their presence felt. I am a 34 year old man with highly suspected Asperger's. I am also partially sighted. Somehow I have managed to rack up ten years of gainful employment since university and also living in my own place too. I'm still not quite sure how. I have had the "Wrong Planet" feeling for a long time and am resigning myself to the fact that it will always remain this way. I do however feel that sometime soon my life will hit a crisis and I will be unable to cope. I try not to let myself think about this too much as it gets me very down.

I look forward to contributing to this community.

Welcome to Wrong Planet. If crisis does hit, you will definitely have a support team in this community!

Welcome

Nice to meet you! Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Hello, also in Scotland!

Welcome to Wrong Planet. Crisis. Yes, I've been there and now also have to deal with the PTSD it caused in addition to my AS.

Welcome

H from the other side of the world!

Thanks for the welcome folks. I thought there might be some Scottish people other than me around here.

Welcome to Wrong Planet.

New member: I have always felt before I would be anonymously lost in a forum as big as WP. Now, have this local issue to reply to for Niall, and a topic about email reliability that needs a global audience: 2 items prompting me to join at last.

Niall, I belong to the local group Geedee has told you about. But I don't belong to the social community of Number 6 - I only take a service from Number 6 if there is an equivalent service in most other places for folks living outside number 6's area. e.g. I checked this out with the Borders group BAAGS before I was willing to use Number 6 for bus pass renewal.

The whole time Number 6 has existed I have taken a stand against its territorial boundary, and said I would not join in society that others are excluded from. I have taken a position to them, as an eligible potential user, that the exclusion worsens the quality of taking part in Number 6 that would be available to me as an eligible aspie too. It excludes the benefits to us of having cross boundary friends involved and their skills shared with us. I said this in the first round of user interviews about its service that Number 6 did in its early days.

I wanted you to know that there has always been an aspie taking this stand within Number 6's area. I would stop taking this stand if the whole of Scotland was covered by one stop shop facilities that were adequate as social experiences, despite boundaries existing between them, but I take the position that having no boundaries and being able to drop in to the service in any area you are visiting will give us a proper national community with access to all that folks in neighbouring areas have to contribute to our experience. Organised day out visits now take place by uses of the service in one area, to the service in another area, so why not be able to make visits just personally?

I actually do live in the place you mentioned on the right side of the line, South Queensferry. I have connections on both sides of the river. For a short time before I knew about aspieness I used to live in Dunfermline, and it was luck that family circumstances around sorting out housing assets caused my move across the river. Otherwise I know I would be sharing your experience, as another of our society does, instead of being the aspie on this side who takes a stand about it.