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Joined: 25 Sep 2007
Gender: Male
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26 Sep 2007, 8:06 pm

I'm Paul.

I'm 27, and I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was 23, right after finishing my Bachelor's Degree in Economics. I've known since I was very young that I felt I was someone who was on the outside looking in, as if I never really quite fit in any particualr place or with a particular group of people. Compounding that was the fact that my parents, my sister and I moved around every couple of years. Between the time I was born, and I finished college, I lived in six different states, and three countries. The longest time I've ever lived in was 11 years when I lived in Florida, and even that was broken up by the time I lived in Poland while attending college. I work on computers for the government, and found that it's something I really enjoy doing. Some nights, I love nothing more to do than to go on my computer and unwind. I still find having to fix people's computers difficult because often I have to translate what they say into what the problem actually is. It's tough, but I manage

Growing up, I found friendships to be few and far between, and I can count on one hand the number of true friends I had by the time I graduated high school. Relationships also proved to be very problematic for me. I had the worst time picking up on most of the emotions. Some of the obvious ones, like anger, sadness, or happiness, I was able to pick up on, but ones like tears of joy, or silence, I had trouble with, and often got confused. As such, many of the relationships I had with women invariably ended badly. Ironically though, i've had several people, men & women, come to me for advice on various subjects, including relationships.

I've also made it a point to try and show kindness to people. One item I've noticed over the years is there is often a shortage of honest, sincere kindness in this world, and I've made every effort to be nice, and show kindness towards those who need it most, when they need it most. It's met with resistence from some, who think I have some sort of ulterior motive, when all I'm trying to show is that maybe, just maybe, there's people out there who really are kind for its own sake, and who care enough about others.

I guess that's enough about me for now, and I hope to talk more with you all.

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26 Sep 2007, 8:24 pm

Nice to meet you, Paul.

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