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Don't Be Shy To Introduce Yourself

Hi everyone

Literally just joined here and am intending to write a thread on some thoughts. Will get into it now and post it, then see how it goes....
 
Hello.

Hi. You can call me by my screen name for now. I'm 28. I'm seeking familiarity and hoping to learn about others accounts and experiences. I am currently seeing a specialist to help navigate sensory challenges, and am awaiting diagnosis.

My parents took me in to get tested as a child. They tell me I was having trouble integrating with kids my own age and often staring off into space. At 3YO I started talking to everyone, even strangers about the idea of existence. It was frustrating and I'd often end up in tears, sometimes hiding in a corner, rocking back and forth repeating "there should be nothing, but there's something". It worried people. As far as testing went, though. I was sent home with a stamp of "normal".

People told me my walk/run, looks funny, often hunched over and looking at the ground, hands clenched around an object or shoved into pockets or inside my sleeves, stiff. My right hand was always clenched, as my left hand was usually busy (left handed). I'd be told to stop doing stuff, like sitting in a W shape, or walking on my toes, tapping or shaking or sucking on my necklaces or sitting on my hands. Even in the womb I was documented tucking my hands between my legs.

In kindergarten I was taken into a small room and given a rorschach test for a program called TAG, I'd go on field trips and after school activities with the older kids. I was given extra projects and went with a few other kids every Thursday into another room where they'd do stuff like show us objects in a drawer, and make us write down what we saw.

I had trouble in middle school. Louder, brighter, more social challenges. I'd leave rooms where there were high pitched noises no one else could hear, sometimes getting detention for leaving without permission. I'd take frequent bathroom breaks and eventually started skipping class altogether and go hide in the bathroom.

Housing opportunities, jobs and friendships will end suddenly, without warning, and sometimes without explanation. I've been homeless 3 times since age 17 and I feel paranoid that at any moment I'm not doing the "right" thing. Even when no one is around. I live like I'm being watched.

I have a few types of synesthesia (which I didn't realize was anything different from others until 5 years ago), lights create sound, sound creates light- and I experience ordinal linguistic personification, which translates over to shapes, colors and sounds.

I'm a very light sleeper and dream vividly, usually lucid. I sleep with a light on because I experience phosphenes (a word I learned recently) in dark rooms that are very distracting. I've also had sleep terror disorder since I was 3. (If you're unaware of what this is, I invite you to look it up. It's NOT about nighmares. Though I do experience those too.)


I tried shortening this as much as I can. I struggle with talking "too much". Basically, I feel like my whole life has been one big misunderstanding. I'm filled with a lot of self loathing. I feel like I dont belong anywhere. Very alone. Hope this was an okay intro. I look forward to hearing from and learning about you all.
 
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Gummi27 said:
Hello.

Hi. You can call me by my screen name for now. I'm 27. I'm seeking familiarity and hoping to learn about others accounts and experiences. I am currently seeing a specialist to help navigate sensory challenges, and am awaiting diagnosis.

My parents took me in to get tested as a child. They tell me I was having trouble integrating with kids my own age and often staring off into space. At 3YO I started talking to everyone, even strangers about the idea of existence. It was frustrating and I'd often end up in tears, sometimes hiding in a corner, rocking back and forth repeating "there should be nothing, but there's something". It worried people. As far as testing went, though. I was sent home with a stamp of "normal".

People told me my walk/run, looks funny, often hunched over and looking at the ground, hands clenched around an object or shoved into pockets or inside my sleeves, stiff. My right hand was always clenched, as my left hand was usually busy (left handed). I'd be told to stop doing stuff, like sitting in a W shape, or walking on my toes, tapping or shaking or sucking on my necklaces or sitting on my hands. Even in the womb I was documented tucking my hands between my legs.

In kindergarten I was taken into a small room and given a rorschach test for a program called TAG, I'd go on field trips and after school activities with the older kids. I was given extra projects and went with a few other kids every Thursday into another room where they'd do stuff like show us objects in a drawer, and make us write down what we saw.

I had trouble in middle school. Louder, brighter, more social challenges. I'd leave rooms where there were high pitched noises no one else could hear, sometimes getting detention for leaving without permission. I'd take frequent bathroom breaks and eventually started skipping class altogether and go hide in the bathroom.

Housing opportunities, jobs and friendships will end suddenly, without warning, and sometimes without explanation. I've been homeless 3 times since age 17 and I feel paranoid that at any moment I'm not doing the "right" thing. Even when no one is around. I live like I'm being watched.

I have a few types of synesthesia (which I didn't realize was anything different from others until 5 years ago), lights create sound, sound creates light- and I experience ordinal linguistic personification, which translates over to shapes, colors and sounds.

I'm a very light sleeper and dream vividly, usually lucid. I sleep with a light on because I experience phosphenes (a word I learned recently) in dark rooms that are very distracting. I've also had sleep terror disorder since I was 3. (If you're unaware of what this is, I invite you to look it up. It's NOT about nighmares. Though I do experience those too.)


I tried shortening this as much as I can. I struggle with talking "too much". Basically, I feel like my whole life has been one big misunderstanding. I'm filled with a lot of self loathing. I feel like I dont belong anywhere. Very alone. Hope this was an okay intro. I look forward to hearing from and learning about you all.
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Welcome to the Forums! I hope you make new friends and enjoy your stay in the process :)

I know the feeling of talking too much; online, that is, never really been much of a talker IRL, and I too have had strong feelings of being alone the past 8 months (as I moved and don't really know anyone anymore where I am, which is somewhere I lived previously)
 
Gummi27 said:
Thank you! :) Not sure how to edit my post since I dont see any buttons. But I meant to say I'm 28. The number 27 was on my mind.
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At the bottom left where it shows the time since you posted you'll see an Edit button with a Pencil icon
 
Isadoorian said:
At the bottom left where it shows the time since you posted you'll see an Edit button with a Pencil icon
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Ah, oh I found it. A thing with three horizontal lines that drops down. Could barely see it. I wonder if it's because I'm on my phone.

Ps. I really dig your avatar!
 
Hello,

my name is Mangodude (not really, it's a nickname). I was diagnosed with Aspergers a year ago, which wasn't really that big of a shock to me.

I sill haven't told my relatives about it, because we have complicated relationships, my family is Russian and not so accepting nor open minded about psychological related issues.

Receiving no help or understanding from them comes hard on me, so main reason I have registered on this forum is to find out more about people with condition similar as mine and well, to get some support.

Thank you,
with kind regards

Mangodude
 
Hey everyone, I joined because my wife wants me to find someone to talk to who will understand me. She is a sweetheart (she calls me her "Nutty Professor") but doesn't understand me sometimes. We raised six boys (two sets of twins) the youngest is 25 and oldest set of twins is 40.
We live on the Pacific Coast of the USA.
Been enjoying the posts, lots of care for each other, very positive.
Look forward to communication.
 
Hi, guys just joined this site and hoping to find out more information on autism related catatonia 15 year old just diagnosed with catatonia 4 months ago. he was placed on medication
 
Hello. I am 18, almost 19, and I was diagnosed with Asperger's/ASD when I was 4. I am in my first year of college/university/whatever you guys call it. I found this site through a random Google search.
 
Hi. I'm Cody. I like to be called autbunout online. But Cody is ok too.

I like to write. I also like to play video games and make youtube videos. My favorite video games are Fallout series and the Elder Scrolls series. I also really like Harry Potter and Redwall.

I am autistic, I was officially diagnosed a long time ago. I joined to make friends. I spend a lot of time online, lol.
 
Hey everyone, I'm Sean (22) I'm a postgraduate student at York St John's in contemporary literature, I play and collect didgeridoos and I was diagnosed with asperger's around 4 years ago.
 
new_goth_riot said:
hi, i'm shelley, i'm 28 years old and i was diagnosed with Asperger's when i was three years old, i would like to meet fellow aspies and would like to see my condition as more of a difference than a burden i live in launceston but commute to plymouth at times.

nice meeting you!!
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