houkou_onchi
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To start I apologize for the long thread. I have a bad habit of making long emails/threads...
I have thought I might be (mildly) In the past and am curious what other peoples opinions who have been diagnosed. To describe my self:
I have never had a lot of friends. Usually the ones I did have I was pretty close with. I usually don't feel the need to go out and socialize and generally enjoy being alone.
When I was young I was fascinated by many things (electronics/computers) which resulted in me taking things apart often.
When it comes to things I like/enjoy I can remember every little detail (like remember every component in every computer I have built since I was 11 years old) but when it comes to other stuff I have a lot of trouble remembering things.
I got into computers at a young and and thus have had a good job and been very successful for the most part. The only negatives I ever had on my reviews have been someone saying I came off as condescending or my attendance (missing days, I am usually never late) but always had pluses like always has a high attention to detail, picks up on other things that people miss/do wrong, etc...
I can sometimes be a little OCD about things but not terribly. There are certain things that stay to this day. I like going to the same restaurant and getting the same order/foods. I make sure my foods are separated (I don't like things to touch) and I only eat one thing at a time until its completion before starting on something else.
Sensitive to sound. I like some music but I have never been an audio person (more visual). I have spend thousands of dollars on high end monitors (been using 4k displays since 2006) and stuff but I use $20 speakers. 90% of movie theatre's drive me nuts because they have the volume *WAY* to loud and I have to keep my hands to my ears for the first few minutes and slowly acclimate to the way over-volumed sound. Some rare cases theatres actually have things set at a good level
Also in a social environment with a band playing I always feel its way to loud and it bugs me. I listen to music while driving but that is it, almost never at home, I don't own any CD's.
I have been single my entire life until I finally decided to try online dating (at age 28, recently turned 29). I feel I really liked and got along with my girlfriend but in the end we broke up as she felt we weren't progressing. I could see she was unhappy about it and I was perfectly happy going extremely slow but I was extremely reluctant to be the one to initiate things. Like I was interested in taking things further but I was just extremely fearful to be the one to initiate it and she didn't want to initiate it either being the girl.
I have not, nor do like being touched for a long time. Even as a child I did not really like being touched and I think my dad tickling me as a younger child to the point where I was 12 or so where it bugged me soo much I would punch or hit him if he started tickling me and thus finally got the message and that stopped. I found it very awkward/uncomfortable for me to have physical contact with my girlfriend which I think made her feel I wasn't interested in her even though I was
I dress weird. Since I was 10 or 11 years old I have always warn clothes that are too large for me (baggy-ish) even before that was considered a style. I absolutely hate to dress up in anyway at all as the clothes just feel very uncomfortable to me. I don't care about style at all, I care what is comfortable to wear or not and doesn't restrict movement/motion. Also I have always had a high tolerance to cold (and low to heat) so I usually always dress in shorts and a t-shirt and that's it (even in winter, granted its California). Until recently I only owned one pair of pants which I pretty much never wore. I also only have satin sheets on my bed because again the comfort/low friction and do not get anything else.
I also ended up learning a foreign language (my sister's recommendation) which I ended up getting very interested in and was for whatever reason very easy for me to learn although most consider it difficult (Japanese). I lived in Japan for a while and had it down good enough that I had no problems communicating with people for everyday life. When i took another language I wasn't as interested in it was way more difficult for me to pickup.
People often tell me I am very verbose when it comes to writing things out (company wide emails, etc...). I sometimes have trouble doing a really small summary of things. Maybe evidence of this in this posting?
Anyway to end the description... I am wondering, is it worth the trouble to get diagnosed? Can anything really help with things? Money is not really an issue for me if it has its usefulness as I live very comfortably.
I was also curious if someone who read through my description of myself does it sound like I have Aspergers or not. I have taken some tests that say its likely and others that say tenancies of both so I was curious what other members thought.
I have thought I might be (mildly) In the past and am curious what other peoples opinions who have been diagnosed. To describe my self:
I have never had a lot of friends. Usually the ones I did have I was pretty close with. I usually don't feel the need to go out and socialize and generally enjoy being alone.
When I was young I was fascinated by many things (electronics/computers) which resulted in me taking things apart often.
When it comes to things I like/enjoy I can remember every little detail (like remember every component in every computer I have built since I was 11 years old) but when it comes to other stuff I have a lot of trouble remembering things.
I got into computers at a young and and thus have had a good job and been very successful for the most part. The only negatives I ever had on my reviews have been someone saying I came off as condescending or my attendance (missing days, I am usually never late) but always had pluses like always has a high attention to detail, picks up on other things that people miss/do wrong, etc...
I can sometimes be a little OCD about things but not terribly. There are certain things that stay to this day. I like going to the same restaurant and getting the same order/foods. I make sure my foods are separated (I don't like things to touch) and I only eat one thing at a time until its completion before starting on something else.
Sensitive to sound. I like some music but I have never been an audio person (more visual). I have spend thousands of dollars on high end monitors (been using 4k displays since 2006) and stuff but I use $20 speakers. 90% of movie theatre's drive me nuts because they have the volume *WAY* to loud and I have to keep my hands to my ears for the first few minutes and slowly acclimate to the way over-volumed sound. Some rare cases theatres actually have things set at a good level
Also in a social environment with a band playing I always feel its way to loud and it bugs me. I listen to music while driving but that is it, almost never at home, I don't own any CD's.I have been single my entire life until I finally decided to try online dating (at age 28, recently turned 29). I feel I really liked and got along with my girlfriend but in the end we broke up as she felt we weren't progressing. I could see she was unhappy about it and I was perfectly happy going extremely slow but I was extremely reluctant to be the one to initiate things. Like I was interested in taking things further but I was just extremely fearful to be the one to initiate it and she didn't want to initiate it either being the girl.
I have not, nor do like being touched for a long time. Even as a child I did not really like being touched and I think my dad tickling me as a younger child to the point where I was 12 or so where it bugged me soo much I would punch or hit him if he started tickling me and thus finally got the message and that stopped. I found it very awkward/uncomfortable for me to have physical contact with my girlfriend which I think made her feel I wasn't interested in her even though I was
I dress weird. Since I was 10 or 11 years old I have always warn clothes that are too large for me (baggy-ish) even before that was considered a style. I absolutely hate to dress up in anyway at all as the clothes just feel very uncomfortable to me. I don't care about style at all, I care what is comfortable to wear or not and doesn't restrict movement/motion. Also I have always had a high tolerance to cold (and low to heat) so I usually always dress in shorts and a t-shirt and that's it (even in winter, granted its California). Until recently I only owned one pair of pants which I pretty much never wore. I also only have satin sheets on my bed because again the comfort/low friction and do not get anything else.
I also ended up learning a foreign language (my sister's recommendation) which I ended up getting very interested in and was for whatever reason very easy for me to learn although most consider it difficult (Japanese). I lived in Japan for a while and had it down good enough that I had no problems communicating with people for everyday life. When i took another language I wasn't as interested in it was way more difficult for me to pickup.
People often tell me I am very verbose when it comes to writing things out (company wide emails, etc...). I sometimes have trouble doing a really small summary of things. Maybe evidence of this in this posting?
Anyway to end the description... I am wondering, is it worth the trouble to get diagnosed? Can anything really help with things? Money is not really an issue for me if it has its usefulness as I live very comfortably.
I was also curious if someone who read through my description of myself does it sound like I have Aspergers or not. I have taken some tests that say its likely and others that say tenancies of both so I was curious what other members thought.
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