Hello WrongPlaneteers, i just got here!

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What is your first name? edaspie

Age: 54

Location: yup

Hobbies and Interests: chess, drawing, audiobooks, judo

Why are you here? i definitely belong on the wrong planet

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 12 March 2013

Favorite subjects: me of course

Year/Grade: i just said the year i made the grade

Favorite music: instrumental

Books: have them too

TV shows/Movies: have no use for them anymore

Instrument: none

Do you like sports? swimming, judo (the peaceful defence)

Family: one estranged sister, one dying sister

Clothing: if i have to

How did you find this website? suggested while reading a book on Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety, and Googling

Job: living

Plans for the future? i never allowed myself a future

Any comments?
Aspie complicated by chronic -- anxiety, panic, stress, phobias, and depression.
i am only hurting myself.
So square i could accidentally cut myself on my edges.
Really have a sense of humour (but little wit) despite these complications which seem so normal to me like i always had them.
Love people, however strange they always seem.
Unknowingly raised in a bubble of family life, dependent on them, until my last parent died 14 July 2010, putting me into a "culture shock" i hadn't realized until recently, involving resorting to "existing" not "living."
50 1/2 years of life living like i was watching a television show of another planet, until parent died.
Grew up from a child relying on a "personal Faith" (which will remain unspecified) that preserves me despite myself and my worldly ignorances of social and practical Life, to no credit of my own.
Am not at all "anti-social" just plain "non-social." People like me i guess because i always like them.
Have an uncommonly strong work ethic, i daresay.
My complications have been kept between me and my doctor and two sisters and parent.
DISCLAIMER: if anyone has been offended or misunderstands anything i wrote here, please don't. i have a terrible time seeing the social consequences of what i write -- only kindness is meant by this posting!

Welcome. I hope you feel at home here

Thank you. i appreciate that. A place we can feel at home at. That is more than a sentiment.

wowiexist, what a great name. You must have a lot of positivity. Terrific!

you will find lots of good people here

This is my biggest terror. I'm not dependent on my parents financially, at least as long as the US economy doesn't collapse and leave me without Disability (which I truly believe is also a very real possibility), but I have no one else to turn to when I hit that autistic wall and encounter something I cannot deal with on my own. I hate being dependent on others, but sooner or later always seem to end up that way.


Sorry, mini panic attack there. Welcome, Ed!

Welcome!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

great to meet you everyone here seems really willing to offer support a joke or just chat welcome

thank you, that is good to know

Wow, a welcome with sunshine!
Thanks.

That is a plan!

By the way, i like to say "finding ourselves to be alive, we set about the business of it."

No problem. It was interesting. It's not my personal biggest terror, i will live on the street if i have to -- though i don't wanna.
Many of us are dependent on Disability. The world economic turmoil i think is necessary to give every country the need to join a one world government, probably soon. We have to make ourselves "mind" less what happens, which helps me to cope.

Welcome

Thanks for the Welcome.

You were diagnosed at age 3, wow! That beats age 53 anyday. Ha.
i expect you had lots of help in your growing years, then. Good!