30 Dec 2013, 3:59 pm
Hello all! Have been lurking around many Asperger's sites lately including WP and decided I'd like to participate a bit more. My husband and I are both newly self-diagnosed this past autumn. I am 36 years old, and he is 51. I originally started looking into it because I was skeptical of my husband's suggestions that he might have Asperger's. Turned out, for me, it was like reading an autobiography. Every personality quirk and odd event in my life that had been attributed to other life "complications" (car accident/death of parents at early age, hypothyroidism and all the mess you'd expect in a life with such disruptions - other ideas are kind of ignored because people just assume it's got to do with issues that have already been identified) finally had a reason that actually made sense. It has been a roller-coaster ride these past few weeks and months (and years, truly), but ultimately, it is liberating to know. Lord knows I'm always trying to understand why I am the way I am and do the things I do.
I still feel like a complete weirdo at my office, but it's a small office, and at least now I know why I don't 'get' fashion (never cared about it and it all looks so uncomfortable... and expensive!), why I don't fit in with all of the women who have husbands with fancy jobs and a bunch of kids running around, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.......! I thought there was something inherently wrong with me because I never felt the pull to be a mother when I saw other mothers with their children. I think children are great!! !! I just can't imagine having my own.
This is kind of a disjointed opening statement of sorts. Don't know where to begin. Just glad to be here. 
Oh... I have a thing for bunnies. 
Sherry221B
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30 Dec 2013, 4:50 pm
30 Dec 2013, 6:01 pm
Welcome! 
30 Dec 2013, 6:33 pm
Nice to meet you! Welcome to Wrong Planet!
30 Dec 2013, 8:01 pm
31 Dec 2013, 12:07 pm
Thank you! 
01 Jan 2014, 3:46 am
welcome
02 Jan 2014, 4:52 pm
02 Jan 2014, 9:22 pm
Welcome
I too understand that feeling with children. I like the idea of having them, but haven't felt that so called 'pull' to do so, and am not really 'clucky'.
CockneyRebel
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02 Jan 2014, 9:57 pm
Sweet welcomes to WPea!
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