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Hello everyone.

I'm a nineteen-year-old who was diagnosed with autism at age eighteen, just a few months after finishing high school. School was absolute torture due to my social ineptitude; it took all of my effort not to drop out, and despite that effort I had to be transferred to an alternative campus that had minimal social interaction to actually get my diploma. That diploma now gathers dust on a shelf in my room, a room located in my parents' house because there's no way I could ever hold a job in my condition, let alone live on my own.

I have no friends offline apart from my family and none online. This will be the first time I've adopted a forum to watch and interact with in years. I look forward to getting to know all of you. I joined this forum in the hopes of having some capacity of interaction with other human beings who aren't my parents in an environment where my autism doesn't interfere with my being accepted.


Some things you should know about me:

For an aspie, I'm not terribly smart. I've been told that my IQ is only 90 and I have no special interests like most aspies do. My favorite subject in school was history, but I remember none of my education there. I used to be interested in astrophysics but that was only because I was a fan of Kerbal Space Program at the time. That ended as soon as I tried to actually learn astrophysics and watched as the entire subject flew over my head.

Here are some basic things I like: to cover TV shows, I like Bob's Burgers and a cartoon that I won't name because of its polarizing nature. For music, my favorites are the Rolling Stones, the Ramones and Nirvana, although I know next to nothing about the musicians who make (or made) the music. Movies, I know nothing about, although I tend to like animated movies. I've never watched anime; I know it's popular on the internet so I'm just throwing that out there: I don't know anything about anime.


I guess that's all there is to say. To repeat, I look forward to getting to know you all.

P.S. Sorry about my atrocious username. I had a nicer one in mind but it had symbols in it and the page where you set up your account tells you that a name has already been taken if it has symbols, and I tried to think of something that couldn't possibly have been taken. I wish I'd figured the symbols thing out before getting stuck with whatever this username is.

Hey JaMOneOneFive welcome.

Welcome to WrongPlanet.net!

I believe that being diagnosed at age 18 years (if an individual must be diagnosed at all) is probably best. Individuals who are diagnosed younger say that it defines them, but individuals who are diagnosed older say that they define it. But, your own personal opinion matters most.

Welcome! You seem smart enough. Hope this site is a positive experience for you.

Welcome to the forum!

Nice to see another Texan Aspie here!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

I'm one of the younger ones on this forum who well is on the other discussions not just Age related. I don't remember introducing myself. Though What's your special interest. If you can't already tell. Mine is Pokemon.

^He said in the post that he has no special interests.

Yeah, I haven't guess 9 months in is too late. I'm sure now that I'm some-what of a WP regular. I need no introduction. I don't know if I was shy or what? I think what happened was I was confused on the registration.. I guess this is the best place. Well, Than damn I don't know what to Say, then. Err.. I guess tell me about yourself? That's disappointing.

Welcome to WP, I hope you find some friends here! An IQ of 90 is nothing to be ashamed of, anything above 85 is still considered average. Aspies often have skewed or inaccurate IQ profiles due to the nature of our strengths and deficits as well. For instance, my full scale IQ of 111 isn't really accurate, because my verbal score of 134 and my nonverbal score of 94 are too widely spread to be combined meaningfully.

Have you never had a special interest, or are you just "in between" interests at the moment? That's happened to me before, where one interest is waning and I have yet to pick up another, so I'm sort of stuck in this "low tide" situation. Right now my interests are Star Trek and dinosaurs. Previous ones included Peanuts cartoons, Garfield the cat, X-Men, Gene Wilder, and elephants.

You know, now that I think about it I have had some special interests in the past.

The first one that comes to mind is the video game BioShock - I played it at least 15 times, not counting the unknown but undoubtedly large number of times I played the sequel. I had a large collection of action figures and other memorabilia.

The co-op zombie portion to the Call of Duty games was a huge deal to me for a pretty long time. I lost interest during the year-long break between games that had zombies but I still play the game mode to this day- on occasion, at least. (This one is where the "OneOneFive" in my name comes from - 115 is the element that turns people into zombies in the CoD-iverse.) For anyone familiar with this, I was a big fan during the Black Ops 1 era.

When I was in elementary school I was really, REALLY into Invader Zim. This one was definitely an obsession. I would talk and act like the character GIR and draw fan art and the works. Just when I was migrating away from this one, my parents bought me the complete series on DVD and it started all over again. I watched it every night before bedtime, and then after bedtime. Sometimes WAY after bedtime.

I can think of a few more from the past, but I don't have one at the moment. Thanks for bringing the fact that special interests can change to my attention; previously I thought a special interest was something that stuck with you forever. Don't know why I thought that as this way of looking at it makes a lot more sense.


As for my IQ, I know mine isn't really that bad but I certainly would have preferred something higher. It was sort of a blow to find out that my IQ was below 100 because while I was growing up my parents and extended family always told me that I had above-average intelligence. So, really, my intelligence is perfectly fine but it isn't what I had been led to believe.

My parents are talking about having my IQ re-tested, that's how sure they are that I'm above-average. If they do, I'll take it; if they're right, I'll feel better, if they're wrong, I won't have to hear about it anymore.


To everyone else, thanks for your replies. They are much appreciated.