A new Swede!

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Cryowolf
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

Joined: 21 May 2007
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 59

22 May 2007, 7:42 pm

Hey hey!

I'm Daniel, from Sweden. I just found this place through wikipedia and thought it would be at least a interesting experience to get involved with other people who have Asperger, cause sometimes I feel like I'm alone with it.

I've always been different and never got along well with people when I was a child, I was an outcast and bullied so much I in the end didn't go out and became homeschooled. It wasn't until the age of 14 someone got the idea to test me for a neurological disorder, and it became apparent I had Asperger.

For a few years I refused to accept it and felt ashamed because that would make me more of an outcast, I even went as far as considering myself a ret*d. But when I was 17 I decided to check the diagnosis again and when it came back positive once more I decided to learn more about it, as I had matured both emotionally and intellectually I stopped being biased and began to learn that Asperger isn't necesserily a disability or 'retardation' but just a diagnosis.

Of course the diagnosis has impaired my social life a lot, but I've accepted it now and learned to live with it a little better. I take medication because if I don't I get very agressive very easily to sounds and movement, or easily irritated cause I might forget I closed a door and have to open it (yeah it sounds silly I know.)

So now I'm almost 22, I'm writing a book and have a great chance of getting it published. I live alone and independantly. I'm not a big fan of adding outside influence to my scheduel that is out of my control though, for example doctors appointments...Cause I have to adjust my life to it and that is still very hard for me. I also still have social difficulties but I can better "blend in" now than I could before. I still tend to piss people off more than not though because I don't think before I say something and I tend to get carried away talking, and it makes people irritated...But if they don't wanna hear it they should speak up

Anyways, if you managed to read all that; there you have it - me!

Cya guys and girls out there!