Hello to all
I'm 68 years old, married for 45 years, two children, five grandchildren. I was a high performing HS student and graduated from a name university in the late '60s. I'm retired from a long career as an executive/administrator in a large municipal government. I have always felt somewhat out of the mainstream and different somehow. It was only in the past year that someone told me, lovingly, that I exhibited mild characteristics of Aspergers Syndrome. I sort of poo-pooed that statement at first. Recently I started watching a new cable TV program titled "The Bridge" in which one of the main characters, a woman police detective is explicitly written as having Aspergers. It was only on watching that dramatization that I began to see, in a much more exaggerated sense many ways I react in certain situations and how others react to her. It was like a light bulb going off when I saw that. Previously I had mistakenly believed that people with Aspergers were incapable of functioning...my ignorance of the subject. I've now come to read of any number of well known persons who are purported to have it.
I look forward to reading much more here and elsewhere and hope to gain more insight into my own personality and its effects on those around me.
I'm 68 years old, married for 45 years, two children, five grandchildren. I was a high performing HS student and graduated from a name university in the late '60s. I'm retired from a long career as an executive/administrator in a large municipal government. I have always felt somewhat out of the mainstream and different somehow. It was only in the past year that someone told me, lovingly, that I exhibited mild characteristics of Aspergers Syndrome. I sort of poo-pooed that statement at first. Recently I started watching a new cable TV program titled "The Bridge" in which one of the main characters, a woman police detective is explicitly written as having Aspergers. It was only on watching that dramatization that I began to see, in a much more exaggerated sense many ways I react in certain situations and how others react to her. It was like a light bulb going off when I saw that. Previously I had mistakenly believed that people with Aspergers were incapable of functioning...my ignorance of the subject. I've now come to read of any number of well known persons who are purported to have it.
I look forward to reading much more here and elsewhere and hope to gain more insight into my own personality and its effects on those around me.
