I'll just say hi real quick, it's almost time to go home so writing something quick will help the last few minutes that aren't enough time to get into a new project but an intro will be quick enough to do before I go...
At any rate, my name is Will and I'm a mechanical engineer. I'm 37 years old, I'm married with 2 children - a boy who will be 4 in about a month and a girl who will be 3 in about 3 months.
Being 3 and 2, it'd be a bit early to be conclusive, but our girl seems to be pretty much NT. Both of them were born premature by 6 or 7 weeks and have had some developmental delays, but our boy has had a PDD-NOS diagnosis and we think he fits the symptoms of Asperger's.
As for myself, I think I may fit a diagnosis of Asperger's, but that's a story I don't have the time to get into right now - maybe later. I've definitely long felt that I have a different way of thinking. I think I've managed to overcome the things about my way of thinking that make socialization challenging well enough to function as I need to as a father, husband and engineer...
Anyway, I'll talk about that more when there's time.
My wife has been reading here for a while due to our son, and I thought I'd pop in and say hi... And yesterday we went to see the movie "Adam" and I felt compelled to pop in and provide my thoughts about the movie. Saying it was good or bad wouldn't do it justice since I don't see it as something that can be boiled down that simply, but I will say this: Viewed in a certain context or frame of mind it was good - definitely not great, and definitely viewed in certain contexts it was bad. But I'll write more about that later in the appropriate place.
24 Aug 2009, 4:04 pm
