D DuranHuerta
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Hello!
My name is Daniel, English teacher, living in Chile and I was officially diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome just this year. I've been having issues my whole life, or at least as far as I can remember. I have been receiving therapy since I was 18, running 31 now, but I had never been told I had Asperger, my initial diagnosis were depression, personality disorders, puberty, etc.
I had been in and out of therapies trying to understand why do people act the way they do and trying to imitate that behavior in order to fit in my cultural and social environment. The road so far has been really hard but now I have a good team of specialists supporting and helping me grow.
I need to meet people and be able to form some kind of relationship with them, I'm not really good at that, I don't talk much and my interests are very specific and limited just to name a few examples. I was recommended to start by playing online games, meeting new people there but I had found that even though it takes the social anxiety of being in front of actual people looking at you and every other pesky thought out of the equation, it is still difficult to find people that are not already clustered together to start something new or try to integrate myself into a group of people.
And that is mostly why I'm here. Trying to meet new people.
Cheers!
My name is Daniel, English teacher, living in Chile and I was officially diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome just this year. I've been having issues my whole life, or at least as far as I can remember. I have been receiving therapy since I was 18, running 31 now, but I had never been told I had Asperger, my initial diagnosis were depression, personality disorders, puberty, etc.
I had been in and out of therapies trying to understand why do people act the way they do and trying to imitate that behavior in order to fit in my cultural and social environment. The road so far has been really hard but now I have a good team of specialists supporting and helping me grow.
I need to meet people and be able to form some kind of relationship with them, I'm not really good at that, I don't talk much and my interests are very specific and limited just to name a few examples. I was recommended to start by playing online games, meeting new people there but I had found that even though it takes the social anxiety of being in front of actual people looking at you and every other pesky thought out of the equation, it is still difficult to find people that are not already clustered together to start something new or try to integrate myself into a group of people.
And that is mostly why I'm here. Trying to meet new people.
Cheers!
