Ionized
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Hello!
I am currently 17 years old and have recently been diagnosed with Aspergers. A few months ago I went through a rather strange time of my life and got diagnosed with depression and social anxiety. My psychatrist referred me to a clinic where they proposed I might be on the spectrum.
I have been bullied and excluded for most of my life even though I never quite understood why, sure I might have been a little different but was it really that bad? I never got along with people my age and not really understanding what they were telling me through facial expressions and body language made it even harder for me to understand. For example: I thought I had some pretty cool friends who used to laugh with me but in the end it just turned out that they were, in fact, not laughing with but rather about me and were never interested in being my friends in the first place. Wherever I went I just didn't seem to fit in, always ended up with those who didn't really fit in either. By now, I don't consider that a problem. After changing classes 3 times I finally ended up with a group of people I would even, to some extend, consider friends that accept me for who I am and make my life easier.
I have a really special set of interests and it is extremely difficult for me to accept anything new into my little world. I could talk about the things I like for hours on end, whenever I hear or see anything that has something to do with those interests I get so excited it sometimes becomes really hard to channel that excitment and remain calm and collected. By now I pretty much got used to people telling me to just shut up already as they don't want to hear me talking about nuclear power plants for hours
I really have no clue where I wanted to go with this introduction, also I am terribly sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes within this post, english is not my native language and even tho I used to live in the United States for about a year it's still not 100% perfect
I am currently 17 years old and have recently been diagnosed with Aspergers. A few months ago I went through a rather strange time of my life and got diagnosed with depression and social anxiety. My psychatrist referred me to a clinic where they proposed I might be on the spectrum.
I have been bullied and excluded for most of my life even though I never quite understood why, sure I might have been a little different but was it really that bad? I never got along with people my age and not really understanding what they were telling me through facial expressions and body language made it even harder for me to understand. For example: I thought I had some pretty cool friends who used to laugh with me but in the end it just turned out that they were, in fact, not laughing with but rather about me and were never interested in being my friends in the first place. Wherever I went I just didn't seem to fit in, always ended up with those who didn't really fit in either. By now, I don't consider that a problem. After changing classes 3 times I finally ended up with a group of people I would even, to some extend, consider friends that accept me for who I am and make my life easier.
I have a really special set of interests and it is extremely difficult for me to accept anything new into my little world. I could talk about the things I like for hours on end, whenever I hear or see anything that has something to do with those interests I get so excited it sometimes becomes really hard to channel that excitment and remain calm and collected. By now I pretty much got used to people telling me to just shut up already as they don't want to hear me talking about nuclear power plants for hours
I really have no clue where I wanted to go with this introduction, also I am terribly sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes within this post, english is not my native language and even tho I used to live in the United States for about a year it's still not 100% perfect
