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Apologies if this is a double-posting, but the first one may not have gotten through. I discovered this forum after posting my first blog entry here, which is public. I haven't been a member for five days yet, so I can't direct you to the site. So here is the entry itself:

Hello, world!

After registering, I had the strongest sense of being "home again". According to self-diagnostic tests, I would have had Asperger's as a child if the diagnosis had existed at the time, and now as an adult I supposedly have both Asperger's and neurotypical characteristics. For reasons too difficult to explain briefly (but associated with high intelligence and the need to meet social norms in professional life), I have become and remain well-socialized and quite empathetic as an adult, but I have suffered greatly in the past from failure to be accepted based also on different types of discrimination. My personality was destroyed by prolonged stress in a job situation over the period of a few years about ten years ago, and I have felt separated from characteristics I attribute to myself as I have with some success rebuilt a way of being-in-the-world. It seems to me now possible that those characteristics, which formed part of the rationale for punishing me through stigmatization and ostracism, and which I associated naturally with high intelligence, fall also into the category of symptoms of Asperger's syndrome. At least, self-diagnostic tests suggest as much. What I have missed most is the ability to focus intensely. After registering for this site, it seems that I have to some degree recaptured the spontaneity of such an ability. I am indeed struck by the degree to which some of the symptoms taken to be indicators for Asperger's are indeed just indicators of high intelligence (seeing patterns, need for reflection,...). Well, anyway. I am making this blog entry public, which makes it different from all of my blogs elsewhere in the past.

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Welcome to the Wrong Planet neighborhood, reuven.

Nice to meet you, reuven.

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I can relate to all that, welcome to WP.

Hi reuven I can so relate and understand the impact of prolonged stress from being so wrongly judged and misunderstood for many years, I never lost my personality because until I discovered Aspergers and my many neurological differences I never knew self.

As I make sense on my own journey, repairing past damage and wrong I am gaining confidence to live the life I always should have, but unfortunately with so much more awareness and understanding needed in this world, I can not help but wonder will we ever be truly embraced, acceptance and allowed just to be. I guess it has to start with all of us from very young to learn about difference and diversity, but the aspie /aunty community have been like a wonderful extended family that I never had and truly understand, so welcome.

To WrongPlanet!! !