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I am 37 years of age and after seeing a TV programme and researching the web on autism i am 90% sure i have aspergers. Everything seemed to fit into place i already knew i had OCD.People on these forums are using words that i have thought about myself before i knew such as alien, weirdo,strange. The most striking symptom for myself is failure to make any eye contact or abnormal star eye contact with the person i am trying to communicate with. i also space out when people are talking to me and will drift back to reality and wonder what on earth they have said to me. I work in an office and feel happiest typing loads of infiormation into a computer or stamping hundreds of envelopes, promotion has never been offered to me thank god the thought of managing people stresses me out. I will be seeing my GP for a referal to confirm what i have so i can say i am like this because i am autistic.

I am still trying to get my head around this any feedback would be welcome.

hi welcome

Cannot remember the actual title think it was The woman who could speak to cows, or The woman who thought she was a cow.

The Woman Who Thinks like a Cow, Dr Temple Grandin. She is believed to be able to read the animal mind which makes her the most famous autistic woman in the world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/program ... mple.shtml
I found that fascinating too. I myself also just came to the conclusion that I am an aspie as well. At the moment, the military has diagnosed me as PDD-NOS. I am hoping to meet with an autistic specialist soon and get a true diagnosis.(I was diagnosed by a clinical psychologist but not a specialist). I also suffer from post traumatic stress disorder and possibly some other things.

That article annoys me because the title and first sentence are a deliberately misleading attempt to arouse the readers curiosity. It is a common dishonest trick that reporters use -- a misleading headline to suck you into reading the article.

I'm 47 and read about it in the newspaper 11 months ago. It was months before I looked into it. Finding this forum answered most of what I needed to find out.

Lots of time passed before I sent my sister an e-mail saying something like I think I found my loose wire and got blown off with a reply like it sounds like all guys fit the discription. Pretty much sounded like she could care less and has never mentioned it sinse than.

Who knows maybe people that are used to somebody don't see it.I relise after reading this web site I don't fly the freak flag as high as some other people here,but I sure don't fit in with NT's

I used to drive a truck and messed around on trucker forums. One guy started a new forum because of the typical moderator power trip stuff and wanted me to get involved as a moderator.We have become online friends and I told him and he knew about AS and said bingo. he could see it just from the way I was online.

So in effect the only family member I thought would understand blew me off and somebody 1000 miles away I never met understood. I've never told anyone else.

Finding about about AS was like getting a 100lb load off my back that I had carried around for 46 years. It has also put me in limbo, like where do I go from here ?
I was a workaholic because I had no social life and at some point it becomes pointless to keep busting butt for more money,house is paid for,got some stocks and if they pay off there will be little reason to work. Going on vacation by myself is unconfortable,just be some weirdo by himself and I drove a truck all over the country for over a decade and have traveled enough in my life.Every town looks the same,different background is about it.

Hello, Stripey, and welcome! I'm another un-diagnosed "90%'er", and I joined up a few days ago when I felt right at home for the first time, after lurking for only a day or two. I think I know exactly what you are saying - or, at least, it's like you are saying exactly what I'm thinking! (I feel like that a LOT here: if I don't have AS, then I must surely have something very close to it, because it seems that nearly all of the "aspies" here are speaking my language - the first time I've ever felt that way.)

"Welcome to the Zombie Club", as I put it somewhere else in this forum ("zombie" was one of the nicer names I got stuck with in school because I walked strangely, kept to myself, never made any friends or talked to anyone, couldn't make eye-contact, and "stared out the window" a lot.)

Hi, I'm also new here, and undiagnosed, but are 99.9% sure. I'm 46 and found out for sure two years ago. Coming here makes me feel "normal" for the first time, I'm such a normal "aspie", we have so many things in common, and it's nice to be around people who thinks the same way.

It's nice to get some answers, but it also raises new questions: where do I go from here, do I tell anyone and who??? I told a girl in my tai chi club and she took it very well, was very exited, but then she had problems with some people in the club, I took her side and suddenly she expected me to do this and do that and talk to them and I had to take over some of her responsibilities and deal with the conflict. It stressed me out totally, and I thought: I just told her I am different, she accepts it, it is interesting and new; and then she expects me to act like a normal friend would.
I haven't told anyone since.

Thank you. I'm considering it, a diagnosis, there is a place but it costs a lot of money.

I think I'll wait till they know more. I need support and advice more than a diagnose, I think.

I don't want to talk to someone who doesn't have a clue. I don't know what to do with one anyway, I have a pension, spinal deformity - yeah I had to be different fysically as well.

I just thought of something, we are not NT's, but AT's, Aspie-Typicals! I am a typical aspie, and proud of it!