Hi everyone! I am 26, male, from Hong Kong. I have not yet had any diagnosis, but the description of Asperger’s Symdrone fits me so well that I can’t believe I don’t have it. I come across here when I search for information about Asperger’s on the internet. This is a very nice website. I hope you will not be bothered by my poor English, which is my second language.
To introduce myself, I will tell you something happened to me in a workshop. It essentially describes my life. After graduation my first job is working as a teacher in a secondary school. Before the start of my first school year as a teacher, I joined a workshop for new teachers all over Hong Kong. I participated in an activity with about 30 other new teachers. We just met each other and we are all strangers to each other, even without knowing each other’s names. Each of us was then given a card with a letter (A to F) on it. We were then asked to form groups so that the group contains 6 people getting all letters from A to F.
I tried hard myself to ask others what cards they have, and tried my best to form a group. Finally, after others forming groups successfully, I found that I cannot form a group. It is because the number of “F” is made less than the other letters by one deliberately. The organizer than said “It is like life. Some people are more sociable, some are more alone. But we can’t say which type is better. It’s just fate.”
The rule of the activity made everyone having a card of A to E equally possible to fail to form a group, while those who are lucky enough to have a F card must have no problem. We were completely strangers but for some reason I can’t form a group successfully. It is the same through out my life. People just don’t like me without obvious reason, even when they see me for the first time. Now after reading information on Asperger’s I know it’s related to my body language, way of talking, eye contact etc. Also, I was not lucky enough to look sexually attractive. That’s me. A lonely person who lose so many career, friendship and romance opportunities due to a condition gifted to me from the first day since I was born.
30 Mar 2007, 11:15 am
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