Nielm
New Member
Hi everyone, I am from Italy and I am a young engineer of 23 years. I was diagnosed this year with High Functioning Autism and finally I explain many difficulties of my past, difficulties that my family has never understood or accepted and that now have a common matrix. I graduated last year despite my difficulty in maintaining concentration on issues that do not interest me 100%. This year has been very hard, and I am still working on the process of digest my diagnosis, which gave me a new point of view but which I still have to learn to manage better. I am currently enrolled in the M.Sc. and I'm also doing research at an institute dedicated to autism, analyzing signals and creating protocols to study attention in autistic subjects.
This was the year in which I lost my first love (as long as I know what it means to love), in which my best and only friend practically repudiated me after the diagnosis and the year in which I will try to convince my family that I am not a homicidal madman but that I simply find it difficult to understand the emotions and to regulate mine accordingly in an environment that judge and oppress my creativity and my neurodiversity.
I like playing, drawing, cooking, going around the woods, reading, doing yoga, running, and obviously reading everything and more. I live alone at the moment, far 1000km from my family in an house with other 2 students.
I am happy to have found this forum and I am keeping myself informed about how autism is experienced outside of my country, to have another point of view and to continuously improve myself and my way of adapting to external circumstances.
Thank you all for your attention,
a hug.
This was the year in which I lost my first love (as long as I know what it means to love), in which my best and only friend practically repudiated me after the diagnosis and the year in which I will try to convince my family that I am not a homicidal madman but that I simply find it difficult to understand the emotions and to regulate mine accordingly in an environment that judge and oppress my creativity and my neurodiversity.
I like playing, drawing, cooking, going around the woods, reading, doing yoga, running, and obviously reading everything and more. I live alone at the moment, far 1000km from my family in an house with other 2 students.
I am happy to have found this forum and I am keeping myself informed about how autism is experienced outside of my country, to have another point of view and to continuously improve myself and my way of adapting to external circumstances.
Thank you all for your attention,
a hug.
