Perhaps I'm not so alone and singular as previously believed

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While doing a web search about Aspergers I happened upon this site yesterday. Despite 20+ years of psychotherapy, it was not until last night that I was finally able to put all the evidence together and conclude that I have Aspergers, albeit at a high level of cognitive capability. The discussion threads - especially those regarding sensory sensitivity and intolerance of change - have removed all doubt. It is hearting to know that there is a forum for people such as me.

I am 60, married for 25 years, and employed at a major technology company in a senior engineering position. Nevertheless, AS rears its ugly head and limits my ability to fully perform certain important job duties and cuts me off from many everyday experiences that others find meaningful and fulfilling.

In joining this website I hope to both learn and teach, with the hope of making life just a little more bearable for all of us who suffer - mostly in silence, and largely misunderstood by the outside world - from this strange condition.

Welcome home! I look forward to seeing your posts, especially any advice you have on marriage and art of keeping it for 25 years plus. Welcome welcome!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Hi EM Expert! Welcome to Wrong Planet! Check out the different forums and articles here. They are interesting and helpful. You are among friends here!

Autism/Asperger's spectrum disorders are neurologically based. They include physical issues, mental health issues, and social function issues. Most people at the Asperger's end of the spectrum are actually at or above average intelligence level. Many adults on the spectrum are self diagnosed, as they often find out about spectrum disorders on their own while trying to figure themselves out. There are some on the spectrum who scoff at self diagnosis, but I say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck--and I am one of the quackers!

I hope you enjoy this site. I do!

Welkome to WP

Mick

To WrongPlanet!! !

yeah, it's a strange condition all right.
on the one hand, we're much smarter than the average, and on the other hand, everyone thinks we're dumber than dumb. i used to think i was the stupidest person on earth, because i saw people who weren't exactly bright, to say mildly, who didnt say the wrong thing all the time, and knew how to undersand others better than i did.
it numbs one sense and sharpens another, so i can hardly smell a thing but my over sensitive sense of taste makes chocolate, candies, jam, whipped cream etc, seem like eating syrup straight from a bottle. yuck, cant touch those things.
it makes you long for danger, and i was almost addicted to it for a while... but then you suffer from general anxiety.
it made six year old me walk over a pipe that served as a bridge over a hole in the schoolyard, over and over and over and over.... makes me pace back and forth and flip my fingers, and makes me go numb and almost black out if being stuck for too long in a noisy crowd.
it gives you rage attacks that makes you see red, but you're still a gentle soul who can't see a sick kitten without rushing it to the vet and paying with your last dollars...
the strangest thing is you look like everyone else and nobody knows, although you feel like you're surrounded by aliens. with a ret*d person, people see it right away, but with us...
i'd love to see your posts soon. you said you're going to try to teach and help people with this syndrome. sounds interesting.
try not to get addicted to the forum. addiction is never healthy.

"it gives you rage attacks that makes you see red, but you're still a gentle soul who can't see a sick kitten without rushing it to the vet and paying with your last dollars... "

Well put, that there was probably the most baffling part to me for so many years.