Um. Hello.

Post Reply New Topic

I don't know if I'm an aspie, but it's something my girlfriend picked up the first night I met her, about five months ago, and she's only just told me she's dead certain I've got asperger's. Not really sure what I can do about it or anything, so... I'm here, and I'm kinda hoping someone can give me a better idea.

I did university for two years but I dropped out because I learned better from books than from lecturers, and I've got a job I love doing now. I don't have a speech problem, really - except sometimes I'll be trying to say something and another completely different word will come out in its place. This has happened more and more often in the past year. But was top of my high school in English so I'm not sure how that works. I'm not very good at maths, and I have to write down a word or close my eyes in order to spell it out, most times. My sense of humour is warped and I have a tendency to take people's statement's literally when I know they're joking. It's a bit hard to explain. When I'm reading, sometimes I literally cannot hear people talk.

I don't really notice if I've made someone upset unless they're crying or they tell me so and I find it really easy to do nothing and just think, even if people call it antisocial (and my girlfriend often does). I compulsively horde books and I don't read them too often. If I find something interesting I have an urge to read and learn as much as I can on it and become a subject matter expert on it, and then go find something new. I did this with politics, philosophy, and some other topics, it was dinosaurs when I was really young. And I seem to become angry and frustrated when people I'm trying to have a conversation with expound what I see as a misinformed outlook.

Um. This has all caused problems with me in some way or other since I was about 11 or so, but I didn't really have an idea what it was. I'm not sure if I'm an aspie and I'm honestly not enthusiastic on getting officially diagnosed for personal reasons but I think it's better I try talking to people about it and see what's likely. I'm just trying to figure out what the hell is going on - my girlfriend has stated that the only reason she's tolerated my clumsiness, frustration, anger and then my 'silent spells' and some of the more other negative problems is that she reckons I've got aspergers. So... um... I'm not sure what to say.

Welcome to WP!

Thanks

Nice to meet you, Ken.

I learned from books and lecturers pretty well.

Welcome to WP

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome to WP, stranger! Wanna buy something? *opens cloak to reveal a huge stock of pistols and knives and ammo*

hi! when i was younger i was obsessed with dinosaurs. my nephew who also has aspergers syndrome is currently into dinosaurs. funny huh?

Welcom !

Haha, yeah. There used to be a magazine series here called, funnily enough, 'Dinosaurs!'. They came out once a fortnight, they detailed heaps of dinosaurs and ecological changes and everything related to them and I thought it was pretty cool. I collected about a hundred and sixty magazines - then the series ended. I still have some of those.

Hi and welcome to the aspie community...