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vulcan80
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14 Apr 2008, 6:20 pm

Hi,

I'm 27 years old and live in Vancouver, Canada. I am a Computer Science undergrad and I work in IT (I hear it's a popular vocation for aspies). It was only last week I found out what Apserber's Syndome is. I was reading a news article and it refered to Autism and Asperger's, at the time I only vaguely knew what Autism was and I had never heard of Asperger's. I decided to look it up and was shocked how well the description of Asperger's syndome fit me. Litterally all the symptoms fit perfectly, especially when I was younger.

On the one hand I'm a little upset that I've been struggling with this my whole life without knowing I had Asperger's, but on the other hand I'm kind of relieved there are others like me.

I'll try to get a professional diagnosis to see if I do in fact have AS soon, but right now I'm mainly in a information gathering phase. I thought this forum would be a good place to ask some questions.

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14 Apr 2008, 6:24 pm

Hiya.

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14 Apr 2008, 7:08 pm

Welcome to WP!

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14 Apr 2008, 7:14 pm

To WrongPlanet!! !

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14 Apr 2008, 7:41 pm

And let me be the first to welcome you to the "Canadians who recently read about AS and are now convinced that they have it and are seeking a diagnosis while lurking on WP" club.

Yeah, there aren't many of us...

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14 Apr 2008, 8:02 pm

Welcome, vulcan80!

Take the Aspie Quiz, it's interesting - and maybe enlightening:

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

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14 Apr 2008, 8:27 pm

Nice to meet you, vulcan80.

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14 Apr 2008, 9:26 pm

If you go for an evaluation, bring the info you find with you. I would have been misdiagnosed as ADHD if my mom didn't have the papers.

vulcan80
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15 Apr 2008, 1:07 pm

CityAsylum wrote:

Welcome, vulcan80!

Take the Aspie Quiz, it's interesting - and maybe enlightening:

Very interesting quiz. Thanks.

Your Aspie score: 99 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 81 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

I had a lot of aspie traits that I grew out of over the years. Especially the ones that get me branded as rude or weird in the office

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15 Apr 2008, 6:35 pm

vulcan80 wrote:

I had a lot of aspie traits that I grew out of over the years. Especially the ones that get me branded as rude or weird in the office

Hahaha, I had to train myself to stop doing a lot of that stuff, too, but things still pop up now and again that get me in big trouble!

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15 Apr 2008, 6:57 pm

Hi vulcan80,

welcome to WP.

I hope you enjoy posting here.

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16 Apr 2008, 9:42 am

Welcome vulcan80!:)

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16 Apr 2008, 11:24 am

Hi!

Welcome to Wrongplanet!

I hope you enjoy posting here!

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