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Noam1515
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24 Sep 2020, 10:09 am

Hi everyone. Nice to meet you, I'm Noam. I'd like to introduce myself with full details so everyone knows exactly why I'm here and what I'm here for, and to generally find out more about what kind of a person I am. I'm not good at introductions, so if some things sound weird, please be understanding. Also I sometimes have language problems, and I admit my English might appear very good but it isnt always, so hope you understand.

Well, I'm 32 and I'm from Israel. Grew up near the capital(Jerusalem). I currently am unemployed thanks to the coronavirus. Before that, I used to work occassionally at a computer technicians shop, and to this day I have a lot of knowledge and experience with computer software, hardware, and so on. I'm not a programmer or software engineer, but I know a thing or two when it comes to general computer knowledge. I also used to work at Sales at a local store, so I also got to work at a job which requires some social skills and allowed me to practice my relatively bad social skills.

About my autism related disorder, I have a hard to notice version of Asperger's Syndrome. I say hard to notice because until I was about 24 or 25, I was undiagnosed and no one ever thought of the possibility of Asperger. I started making some serious research into it, and I found out I have some symptoms of Asperger. I started going back to my childhood memories, and found out my reactions, words, way of speech and way of reacting to social situations made me realize I indeed was a victim to Asperger's Syndrome. I'm a Taurus, so taurus also tend to be stubborn about their personal opinions and tend to think they're hardly ever wrong, deep inside. This caused me to avoid receiving help and support, and the only way I was able to resolve some of my social issues was by starting to be more talkative and understanding of other people's feelings, as I also have a very low level of Empathy.

Because of my past social issues, I have very little friends and suffered from social fears and isolation / phobia during my school years, which caused me to have almost 0 friends and no graduation, didnt finish high school, etc.

All this and more, made me realize even though I have a big problem, I realize this big problem is also what makes me so special, and so I decided I'm not giving up, even when at times I felt like I want to die or run away from home and do something extremely stupid or dangerous. But, I was able to control myself.

These days I'm doing much better, but right when things started to seem promising and a bright future - coronavirus striked us all, and my plans are going to have to wait when it comes to independence, family, marriage, children and career.

About WrongPlanet, I know this site for many years and participated on the WrongPlanet forums back in 2014 or 2015 under a different forum account which I have lost access to, and I dont even remember the name I had. I have plans to be very active and take part in all kinds of discussions, and get to know others who have similar issues.

I know it has been a kinda long introduction, but I thought it was a good idea to make it detailed. Thank you for reading, and I'm glad to be here. Thank you.



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24 Sep 2020, 10:12 am

Noam1515 wrote:
About my autism related disorder, I have a hard to notice version of Asperger's Syndrome. I say hard to notice because until I was about 24 or 25, I was undiagnosed and no one ever thought of the possibility of Asperger.
Welcome (back) to Wrong Planet, Noam. I have a similar story in that I wasn't diagnosed until I was 55. Nice to meet you!



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24 Sep 2020, 12:58 pm

Welcome back to Wrong Planet! :D


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25 Sep 2020, 2:09 pm

Steve1963 wrote:
Noam1515 wrote:
About my autism related disorder, I have a hard to notice version of Asperger's Syndrome. I say hard to notice because until I was about 24 or 25, I was undiagnosed and no one ever thought of the possibility of Asperger.
Welcome (back) to Wrong Planet, Noam. I have a similar story in that I wasn't diagnosed until I was 55. Nice to meet you!


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25 Sep 2020, 2:36 pm

Hello from Britain.



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25 Sep 2020, 7:44 pm

Welcome back to WP Noam :D

I hear the Covid is hitting you hard in Israel :(



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26 Sep 2020, 6:52 am

Welcome. I have a similar story, I wasn't diagnosed until I was 47.



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26 Sep 2020, 7:16 am

Welcome :D


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27 Sep 2020, 8:14 am

My niece lives in Haifa but I have never been,welcome to WP


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27 Sep 2020, 12:03 pm

Welcome back to Wrong Planet!

I was pondering what you said. You have no high school diploma. At present you are out of work due to the Coronavirus. If you were in the States, I would recommend that you take a General Educational Development (GED) test which would give you an equivalent to a high school diploma. You could use your current time off productively to position yourself better for the job market.

But I do not know if they have anything equivalent to a GED in Israel. So I did a quick scan and found a link:
GED prep course


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27 Sep 2020, 12:24 pm

hello

i can relate to what you are saying. I also was not diagnosed until the age of 44.
Being a late diagnosis person or a "lost generation" person sucks.

As we often have had no support for our entire lives, and lack of recognition often means
that lost generation people have poor employment history.

Little is done to compensate us for a life of hardship and little is done for helping us into
creating our own employment.

This largely due to the lack of understanding and funding in employment services.