Hi! My name is Scott and I've been lurking here for the last 2 month and I just decided to setup an account today. I am 44 years old and got diagnosed with asperger's 2 years ago. I live off disability and spend most of my time tinkering and building things in my back yard shop. I am not married, don't go to parties and I can't get a job, not because I can't do the work. But because I can't do interviews and resumes. And even if I do get a job, it won't last very long because I just can't get along with someone there. I had to drop out of high school because the bullying got so bad.
Before I learned about asperger's. I always though that I was a typical nerd/geek and that's why I always had social problems( Anyone watch "Revenge of the nerds" in 1984?) and I was a social outcast because of that. But when I started going to all the various nerd/geek clubs. I started to realize that I was still having the same social problems. I always figures that someday, I would just learn to/outgrow this. But now I am in my forties and I still haven't made progress with it. Of course, it doesn't help when a psychiatrist drops the bomb on you and tell to that your social problems are cause by this thing call asperger's and there is no cure for it. I just don't get it. How can a simple psychological issue cause such difficulty in socializing. I am in good healh and have even had brain scans done and they show perfectly normal. I mean, to put it simply. socializing seem to be my biggest problem in life.
Before I learned about asperger's. I always though that I was a typical nerd/geek and that's why I always had social problems( Anyone watch "Revenge of the nerds" in 1984?) and I was a social outcast because of that. But when I started going to all the various nerd/geek clubs. I started to realize that I was still having the same social problems. I always figures that someday, I would just learn to/outgrow this. But now I am in my forties and I still haven't made progress with it. Of course, it doesn't help when a psychiatrist drops the bomb on you and tell to that your social problems are cause by this thing call asperger's and there is no cure for it. I just don't get it. How can a simple psychological issue cause such difficulty in socializing. I am in good healh and have even had brain scans done and they show perfectly normal. I mean, to put it simply. socializing seem to be my biggest problem in life.
