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Hello, nice to meet everyone. I am queer, asexual, and Jewish. I live in Canada with my partner who is also autistic, and she suggested that I talk to more ASD folks since I have recent had a great deal of trouble talking to neurotypicals. I am very interested in psychology, and am just finishing my Masters in counselling. I also like many kinds of crafts, especially fibre arts, reading both fiction and nonfiction, and videogames. I am passionate about education and enjoy learning everything that others have to teach me. I am primarily looking to learn more about myself and make friends. My french is awful but it exists.

hiya Max and welcome to our club

p.s. your french is still likely a world better than my french.

Welcome to this here wrong planet ..... happy landings

Greetings and salutations.

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Hello. I found some French. Welcome to Wrong Planet.

Welcome to WP. The locals seem like nice folk to me.

Your profile and first post left me confused as to whether you are on the Spectrum, or are suspicious that you might be, or are interested in it because of those around you...but any of the three would seem to me to be wonderful reasons to mingle on WP.

And I took a year of French in the 7th grade. Before completing High School I also took a year of Latin and two years of Spanish. Sigh. The scores I received in those four years of study, if added together, would have made a very nice score for one year of study. That is, I did terribly in foreign languages! (I have had much better success with computer languages.)

Do you think in pictures? I tend to think in pictures. (Hard to describe but I will visualize everything in a picture form so that I can grasp it, as if it is in picture form I remember it but if it is something I do not put in picture form, I don't remember it for long).

I am not at all good at languages and my english is kept to simpler words. But ask me to design something or think up a plan where I can visualize it in map form and I am in my element.

My Mum kind of thinks like me in some ways BUT she thinks in words so is different. Unlike me she is excellent in languages and she could read and write by the time she was two and a half.

Not exactly. I think I think in abstractions of some kind. I am terrible at rote memory of any kind but I did best in courses where understanding the material was helpful.

For instance, in an early computer programming course a classmate who was having trouble with the material tried getting help from me. She could recite from memory a page or more of a manual about a specific computer command code but had no clue on how to use the code; I couldn't recite the first three words of the manual but after reading that page in the manual I knew how to use the code.

When the psychologist gave me my formal diagnosis one of the first things I did was ask why didn't I have a better memory? I had heard that autists had excellent memories! Did I fail to get one of the "symptoms"? She corrected me on that, pointing out that while there were exceptions, in general my memory would only be helpful in things that interested me. Computer languages interest me, foreign languages do not. (Um. I have face-blindness. Coincidentally, long before I received the diagnosis I had been telling people that I was terrible with names and faces but that was because I was always being introduced to strangers and "who the heck cares who a stranger is?" I suggested that we should get to know each other and then I should find out what their name is.)

I have prosopragnosia too and so does my Mum.

Much of what you wrote describes me except that instead of computer languages, I am into trains. (Real railways, model railways, how the railways ran or run, railway history etc).

My Mum can be the one who remembers the book... I am one who am more logical like you are so your description describes me and my Mum in that area but I would be the one who read a few lines and put it into practice if I could visualize it. Much prefer diagrams and pictures. If I had those I would hardly look at the words!

Bonjour!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome

Welcome. What kind of fiber arts interests you?

Hello, you !

Also Jewish, also from Canada.

I think in many different ways.

Also I am speaking French.

Was really hard for me for these past few moths. Looks like I was in a kind of spiritual suicide mission. But I just remembered that when I do things for others, I am also feeling good. When it's for me, not so much, and then the Hedonic treadmill comes again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill (when I first found this Wikipedia article years ago, it aid that seeking pleasure does the reverse. Now more complete, it sys something else. Ahh Wikipedia!)

So, welcome to Wikipedia. hmmm, Wrongplanet !

Bienvenue a WP!

Comment allez-vous?

Parler français n'est pas facile pour moi non plus, alors je compte sur Google Translate pour parler à ma place.