Learning to Fly (Hi! I'm Pinks!)

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Hello Wrong Planeters

What a wonderful forum title! I have felt all my life that I am not fully human and must be an alien from another planet. Perhaps you are my fellow space travelers?

I am a 35-yr-old genderqueer from Everywhere who has just come to the realization that she is autistic. My mother confirmed my suspicions with her own and I am at the stage of trying to decide if I need or want a formal diagnosis. Many of my life's struggles are coming clear to me in light of this new realization and I am trying to keep a positive attitude: a diagnosis is just another tool to learn about myself and the world.

I read on another Aspie website that the best way to make and keep friendships is with a shared common interest. I keep striking out (suddenly, bewilderingly, and spectacularly) with NTs and so I'm trying to find some fellow Aspies to be my friends.

What's my special interest? The one that makes my heart sing the loudest? It's mountain biking! Rowdy, downhill, tail whipping, air catching shreddiness. Of course, I'm not any good, but it makes my heart sing to fly.

I hope that we can be friends on this forum. I promise that I am trying my best, but my track record of not being upsetting to others isn't great, though I still do not understand why. So, as they say in Japan, please be kind to me!

Pink

Welcome, Pinks!

Happy flying!

Things are easy when you're big in Japan
/Alphaville.

Yoroshiku to you too
I like fishing, but I also do love to race across the lake when it's calm.

Welcome!

In many places an adult diagnosis is only useful for knowing you have autism, which may be a lot of money to spend on something you already know! Though in some places you can get it "free" via the national health service.

Diagnosis or not you can learn ways of reducing stress in your life which will make life much easier for you.

My bro-in-law was a flight instructor, and one of his students must have been one of us. They were landing a taildragger, and it was time to stop descending and flare out before setting it down. He instructed the student "Raise your nose!" and nothing happened. He flew it straight into the ground and wrecked the aircraft. He had not understood that "your nose" referred to the front of his aircraft.