vanillabuzz
Well-Known Member
I'm 33 and only recently did I start wondering if I could have Asperger's. For the last fifteen years I have been mostly isolated from social interactions. A number of years ago I was formally diagnosed with mayor depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety and attention deficit disorder. I have a number of phobias, I dropped out of high school a couple of years before getting diagnosed with all of the above. I haven't been able to take on an activity since. I have signed up to different classes and courses (mainly arts, something I have always loved) but I often drop out, mostly because of my social anxieties and just not being able to get along with others (people often think I'm rude but I promise I'm not). I don't have a job, never have. I have a total of three friends, two of which I haven't seen in a long time (but I still consider them my friends...) and one best friend who means the world to me. I live at home with my mom and my kitty cat (I adore animals) as well as my brother, but he's rarely home (he's the opposite of me). There is so much more I could add here but it's already long enough. I don't really want to self-diagnose, even though I've done all the quizzes out there which point to a likely Asperger's diagnosis, I don't feel comfortable self-diagnosing. However, I also have a tough time taking the steps to find a specialist who will do so. In the hopes that I will slowly push myself to find a doctor (my old psychiatrist moved out of the city years ago) I decided to try to find a community of people who have been diagnosed, self-diagnosed or believe they could have Asperger's... so here I am. Hola, everyone! I'm Domino. 
Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! I'm sorry I'm months late but I basically didn't know if I could properly express myself through this medium. Recently I have come more to terms with the possibility of having Asperger's, more so than when I first joined a number of months back, and I have finally started commenting to different threads, feeling more comfortable and at home in this place. So thank you again for the welcome, and thank you for this place. Reading and commenting with my own feelings and experiences for the past couple of days has truly helped. 
