mistersprinkles wrote:
Hi, I'm a 31 year old male from Toronto Canada and I have Aspergers. I was diagnosed in late 2011. I was in denial about being on the autism spectrum for about a year but the more research I did the more I realized that it had to be true, so I've come to accept that I'm different. I've always been different. I never really fit in, especially when I was younger. But I thought I was different because of something I was doing wrong that I could change about myself. Since being diagnosed, I have realized, to my dismay, that there is nothing I can change, and all the things I don't like about myself, like my shyness, discomfort with sustained eye contact, inability to integrate into and work in groups, fear of crowds, poor social skills, etc, are here to stay. Sorry for that run-on sentence just now.
I had such a hard time with school once things actually started getting challenging around 9th grade (or freshman year for you American folks) I started to really slip badly, and by 10th grade I had totally screwed up and was failing. I dropped out of school when I was 15 and didn't go back for 2 years, finally getting the courage up to give it another shot. I got terrible marks again but I just squeaked by. I stayed in school until I was 19 but once I turned 20 I wasn't allowed in the "normal" highschool system any more and I still needed a lot of credits, so I didn't graduate. I've been going to an adult highschool and taking one course at a time to get my highschool diploma. I have 1 course to go.
These days I'm dealing with my prostatitis (chronic prostate infection) and my fistula. At least the latter can be fixed with surgery.
My interests include nature, computers, and things that fly, but mainly computers.
I'd like to get a computer repair and support service off the ground but I have no business skills or capital and I live off $1000 per month in government assistance because, despite hating the term, I have a "disability".
Do you find the course material difficult?
11 Feb 2015, 10:10 pm
