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Hi, my name is Lean. I'm a 30 years old male from Argentina. I discovered I have Asperger's a couple of months ago. It was the aswer that I was expecting my whole life! I'm seing a therapist that is helping me to learn how to handle my emotions better
I have a master degree in organic chemistry and I work as a supervisor in a research and development lab. Also, I'm going to start a post grad course in biotechnology next year.

I've been living on my own for about 4 years and I take care of myself pretty fine. Believe it or not, I drive a motorcycle, but I don't get along very well with cars, because I have really bad coordination with my feet. I can't play soccer neither, wich living in south america, as you can imagine, excludes me from most of the social gathering of male human beings around here. So, as you can see I look like a normal guy with high IQ, but I'm actually as aspie as it gets haha. Although I'm an adult I have terrible meltdowns. Luckily, I usually can delay them until I get home, but sometimes I have them in front of people and I know is a scary thing to watch. Meltdowns brings me a lot of shame, and after a meltdown I shutdown, sometimes for days. But, appart from that, I am proud of being an aspie, I have fun "super-powers" and I love my special interests. I'm adicted to learning

Socially, I'm a disaster. But, I don't know how, I managed to make a few but great friends, and people seem to like me, even if I meltdown once in a while haha. But is really hard for me to trust people, to interact propperly or to communicate my feelings. Even though, I had a 3 1/2 years relationship, and after that another year long relationship. Right now I'm single, and since I've discovered I'm an aspie, I want to stay like that for a while until I figure out who I really am.

Nice to meet you, see ya

Welcome!

Thanks for sharing.

From how you've described yourself, yes, it sounds like you're on "The Spectrum".

From what you said, it sounds like you really wish you could do better with your, occasional, "meltdowns", yet you, now, realize that those have been very-much connected to your ASD. You're trying to learn and do well with learning, in general. I commend your self-improvement efforts and it's great that you can see your many, many strengths.


(Yeah, I like learning [am "educated"], too.)

I think you'll find a lot of good, open, people here!

Keep trying!

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