So I guess I should introduce myself.
My name is David, I am 25 years old, and I have just recently been diagnosed by my psychologist with Asperger's Syndrome, albeit I will be doing additional neuropsychology testing with a psychiatrist to find out for sure.
I had never even heard of this until about last week when my psych told me about it. I had mistaken it for Social Anxiety for years. She mentioned that I had the perfect connection where I had these little obsessive quirks and social cues that I seem to miss and my extreme attention to my work. She had diagnosed me last week on April 30th, and I took this one self Aspie quiz and got an Aspie score of 148/200 and an NT score of 67/200... whatever that is.
I work as an engineer in Las Vegas, Nevada and I do some programming on the side, and have had it pretty rough. My parents raised me hard-right born-again evangelical Christian (you know the type) and don't believe in this mental health stuff and all of this is very new to me. I hate this town, it's so difficult to make friends when you're just normal, forget being Aspie, or have social phobia, or anything else. I play poker, I like board games, I'm being told to start broadening my horizons a bit. I am extroverted yet sort of shy... I kind of just don't like talking to people very much (sick of the constant rejection).
When I was first diagnosed, I was both kind of happy and sad at the same time. Happy because it kind of answered a LOT of questions about why I was always a little "off" from other people, but sad because my family has yet to talk to me since, and a lot of people I know here in Vegas don't see Asperger's as "real"...
So yeah, that's... pretty much it. Hi... I guess.
My name is David, I am 25 years old, and I have just recently been diagnosed by my psychologist with Asperger's Syndrome, albeit I will be doing additional neuropsychology testing with a psychiatrist to find out for sure.
I had never even heard of this until about last week when my psych told me about it. I had mistaken it for Social Anxiety for years. She mentioned that I had the perfect connection where I had these little obsessive quirks and social cues that I seem to miss and my extreme attention to my work. She had diagnosed me last week on April 30th, and I took this one self Aspie quiz and got an Aspie score of 148/200 and an NT score of 67/200... whatever that is.
I work as an engineer in Las Vegas, Nevada and I do some programming on the side, and have had it pretty rough. My parents raised me hard-right born-again evangelical Christian (you know the type) and don't believe in this mental health stuff and all of this is very new to me. I hate this town, it's so difficult to make friends when you're just normal, forget being Aspie, or have social phobia, or anything else. I play poker, I like board games, I'm being told to start broadening my horizons a bit. I am extroverted yet sort of shy... I kind of just don't like talking to people very much (sick of the constant rejection).
When I was first diagnosed, I was both kind of happy and sad at the same time. Happy because it kind of answered a LOT of questions about why I was always a little "off" from other people, but sad because my family has yet to talk to me since, and a lot of people I know here in Vegas don't see Asperger's as "real"...
So yeah, that's... pretty much it. Hi... I guess.
