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09 May 2016, 6:31 pm

Hi!

As a kid, my school was given a battery of IQ tests, so we could be divided up according to ability and be guinea pigs for new teaching methods. I kept getting 100% and was given harder ones, until finally I peaked out somewhere.
No one ever mentioned ASD.
February, I took a self diagnosis test, for a couple reasons, and scored AQ40.
Preliminarily, it explains a half-dozen behaviorial konks, not only mine but my mother's line it seems.
Picked up my first book this week, Autistic Brain, by Temple Grandin ( a keeper )
& also went to my first support group.

Survived 40 years of a life-threatening chronic illness thanks to researching the topic like a vacuum ( typical ) ... + my lifelong Buddhist practice ( I host a free group in the San Francisco Bay Area ) ... and ( can i have a big drum roll, please?) support groups.

Slowly slowly step by step.

Thank you

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09 May 2016, 7:44 pm

Welcome! Hope you enjoy it here.

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09 May 2016, 10:15 pm

Hey ConnectingTheDots welcome. :sunny:

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10 May 2016, 4:06 am

Hi ConnectingTheDots, and welcome. In looking back in my family, I see that my dad had Asperger's and his mom before that. I never had kids so I didn't pass it on but I have a nephew I suspect has it. It definitely seems to run in families. Along with the book you are reading, I think you will find a lot of good reading and good friends here.

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10 May 2016, 2:54 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

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11 May 2016, 10:43 am

Thank you, TheAP, RoadRatt, AnonymousAnonymous, and aspienaz !
Good to be here.

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11 May 2016, 4:18 pm

^^
Enjoy your time here on WP!

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