Hi from 47 year old Minecraft fan

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Hi everybody,

so I've never been diagnosed with anything, but I'm pretty sure I fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. I've been told so offhand by an autism specialist I know and the online quizzes and so seem to indicate I am.

I'll tell you a bit about myself, in hopes of finding like-minded people, in hopes of finding friends.

First off, I like the way I am and would never want to change, only have a few more friends.

I am very introverted, and spend most of my time entertaining myself with my work and various hobbies, and obsessions. I do math for fun, am obsessed with numbers, I even listen to tapes of "numbers stations" (google it, very cool). I like to carry spheres or lately toroids (donut-shapes) around and just sort of turn them around in my hand. When I say it out loud it sounds stupid but I hope someone else knows what I mean. I ride the bus and just do the rubic's cube, over and over, hoping to find that rare person interested in the puzzle.

I am ok with a few people, I have close friends at work, probably a little out there on the spectrum too, and I'm great at my job, working mainly with computers and researchers. I like to joke around with my few work friends, but I tend to be very opinionated and argue with them, and maybe drive them off.

Strangers are another thing. I do not make contact and find it really hard, or just do not make small talk. I find parties uncomfortable, and I just don't go to them. I go home and work on math or my radios or play minecraft for hours.

In the car or at work I listen to the same song over and over and drive everyone nuts.

I play pokemon with my daughters and their friends. I can play for a whole day, no problem.

I am oddly attracted to girls with short hair, usually much younger than me, usually lesbians. Not surprisingly, that doesn't work out, but I really enjoyed the times I sat with these girls and talked about physics in my office.

I had one girlfriend and am married and have two kids, but it didn't work out, and we are separated, living apart for many years and I am so glad to have my own bed back again, my routines and my kids who are the extent of my social life. My kids are my best friends. I kind of hide behind still being married but separated. i can use that as an excuse why I have never found anyone to date.

But now my kids are getting older and it would be nice to have someone to talk about tv or bad scifi, or astronomy. I thought it would be great to have a girlfriend from across the globe and we could meet and build a life on minecraft and maintain our space and maybe grow it into a life where we could spend the rest of our lives together.

I'm pretty conflicted. I really need my time to myself for my stupid obsessions, but I see someone good looking and vibrant and interesting and I just want to be able to hang out with them whenever. But make no mistake, I love who i am now and I wouldn't change myself even if it meant I could have a fabulous social life. I'm prepared to live the rest of my life alone. I just can't help but think in he many people on this planet there must be a few or one who'd like to entangle their life with mine.

Nice to internet-meet you astroman. I love numbers stations too - Do you think uvb-76 is gone for good? I'd also like to start playing minecraft again, I got distracted a while ago. You sound talented. I tend to fixate on numbers and encipherment, while having no innate ability in that way. Never completed a rubic's cube, for example.
Anyway, enjoy yourself.

Hi Voynich, nice to meet you too. I hope it's not gone. That's one of the things I miss about the cold war days. The shortwave bands were an interesting propaganda battlefield.

There are still lots of interesting sounds on the radio now, but most are just noise. But sometimes the noise is very interesting.

I was just looking around at ubv-76 on the web and came across "the squeaky wheel" I think I heard that many years ago. Very cool.

I made a cd from the conet project, a collection of numbers stations recordings on the internet, and play it when no one's around.



Now is a good time to come back. there was a big update that added a lot of new biomes. I am thinking of setting up a simple server for wrong planet people.



I wouldn't say I'm talented. I like to learn things and I have the feeling there's nothing I can't figure out if I put my mind to it, but I don't put my mind to it.

I get these serial obsessions where I'll be really into something for a little while, become obsessed with it and then walk away and start something new.

I am good at fixing things but not at coming up with anything new. So I help others with their research, or just to keep their computer working. I started to go for a phd but I was a little terrified with having to do some new research. And there's a lot of required social interaction in science that just terrifies me and so I bailed out and became a digital and analog handyman.



I know what you mean, I think. I see the beauty in numbers, or in an encrypted block of text, and I like to see if numbers are prime, or find symmetries in numbers or codes, or rubic's cubes, but I don't really do anything with that. I don't advance any knowledge. I know math department people and they are not into numbers as I am. And they possess a drive and depth of concentration, or persistence that I don't have. I can dedicate months to one thing but not lifetimes like they do. I enjoy finding things out but I change focus a lot.



New cubes come with a little booklet that give you a simple algorithm for solving hem. I just learned that. As a kid I spent a lot of time fiddling with it but never solved it on my own. I just do the algorithm I know now. There are faster ways of solving it but I never got that into it. It's just fun to look at and give me something to do with my hands on the bus.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

hi welcome