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This is my first post. I recently heard of your existence. I was excited to hear that you are out there and hope that you will accept me as one who hopes for interaction with others who can understand and with whom I can identify.

I've lived a lifetime at 61 years old now with most of the recognized symptoms on the spectrum, although I'm verbal. I tend to be too verbal, in fact, both in speaking and writing, for "normies" who don't and can't understand. I think that the demands my brain makes on me to be as accurate as possible in putting out my message or answer to a question at all times makes sense to others here, who, knowing from the inside, may help to ease my wordiness. This is my guess; I haven't had the experience yet. It probably would work in both directions, too. I'm a good listener.

I come by autism naturally. My father, his father, and two of his uncles were all autistic, as Dad informed my fiancee after I was twice diagnosed, and we sent him information about it. I'm in the area of the spectrum that the DSM-IV called Asperger's Syndrome. I'm glad the DSM-V came out leaving that label in the past, since Asperger was an SS doctor during the Third Reich and I am a Jew.

My son was also autistic on a different part of the spectrum, and died suddenly and unexpectedly at age 13. In fact, I chose to write this today, the anniversary of his death, so that I could feel that my first contact with all of you could be dedicated to him in a special way.

Anton

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Thanks, AnonymousAnonymous. You're the first to welcome me here. I see you just celebrated your 12th anniversary being on Wrong Planet. That's a long time! I am a hunt-and-peck typist, but I want to start reaching out to other autistics here on Wrong Planet---that's certainly an appropriate name for how I've felt all my life! I'm in the same time zone as you, but I'm guessing there are members here from all over the world.

My condolences on the loss of your son, first of all. I hope you enjoy being with us here at WP.

YAY! another one

Welcome to WP!

Welcome to Wrong Planet. I am sorry to hear about the death of your son.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and quick welcome! I've never joined any groups before, and am not very good with computers yet, but am trying to learn. I've never joined any social media groups, like Facebook or Twitter, and don't intend to, but Wrong Planet is different, I feel. I'll be working on finding my way around WP and appreciate any suggestions offered on how to do things here.

I'm interested in hearing what difficulties others here have as autistics in an NT world and how you have managed to navigate your way through it. My own life has been so off-the-charts that I've had great difficulties dealing with NTs, and I hesitate to talk much about my own life unless someone actually wants to know something about it. Any questions or discussions of interest in my story will be answered truthfully and accurately.

Welcome to WrongPlanet all the threads and forums that make it up..

Thanks, kazanscube. This is a real quick post to say I've wanted to come back and post again, but I had a medical procedure done this week that I am still recovering from. I will be up to posting more soon, I hope. I'm excited to find this group!

welcome. sorry for being late. i had forgoten i can leave my nest in the haven xd

Hi, serpentari. Sorry my reply is so late. I am still recovering from that medical procedure, but hope to be in here more often soon. Regarding your quote, I believe I know what you mean; I have looked for that third option all my life, and I'm 61 years old. I haven't found it yet, but I am still looking! I think it's great that you're from Russia and write such good English. Three of my four grandparents were from the Ukraine, but they left when it was still part of the Russian Empire.

I'm staying here in the newbie forum until I'm "hatched from my egg", if you will, and then hope to branch out into other areas of the site where I might seem to fit in. While here, I'm definitely keeping posts short and simple. For now, I'd like to say that, yes, it is hard for us to live in the NT world. I've had 61 years at it now, and learned in a very profound way never to give up trying. I've learned that in my very soul by the example of a certain special person; more on him later.

As I look upon the mountains, I can see the gray horizon;
You tell me that it's blue, but this is one I cannot see.
In His wisdom, G-d ordained also the bright sky has not blue.
Blue-yellow colorblindness just gives me yet again, another separation
in this me/you world of ours.

You have no words to tell me
what's the difference in our sight;
gray is pale or darker,
but never is it bright.
I only know that I don't fit
when comes the daytime light.

The thing that never dies is what
we humans call great beauty;
as flowers live and bloom
their fragrance can be fruity;
some of us discern it
and yet others simply can't,
but what good ever comes
from a rage or from a rant?

I wear no masks, my friends, I cannot lie;
Upon the earth I've cried, but my heart is filled with love.
As with my fathers I'll soon go,
with faded dreams and broken heart, I can't deny the truth.
Speaking for me alone, I believe
I'll hear the song of the desert forever.