Pariah Dog
Well-Known Member
About me. I am a 31 year old male from Alberta, Canada. Just got out of a very bad relationship (I thought of it like more of an oppressive regime of 8 years) a couple months ago and have hit the reset button on life.
I am not officially diagnosed with Aspergers that I know of, but its occurred to me that my parents maybe just never told me. I learned about the condition in adulthood and my childhood made a lot more sense after the fact. I would say as a kid I was a solid example of 80% of the usual conditions. I was sent to see guidance Councillors often in school and was once sent to a University Psychology department for a study, in which I was afterwards told I was "normal" (as if).
To try and not drag this out too long. The picking at my brain stopped at about 10 years old. With adolescence I became awkward as you might expect and speech started becoming difficult for no reason I can explain. No one at all had anything other than ridicule for it. That has improved greatly but not entirely. Some people out here just think I have an Eastern Canadian accent which I accept as better than it being known as some sort of condition. Dating has ranged anywhere from N/A to "disaster" but I can share that in the dating section.
Through it all I have adapted very well and no one can even tell of my condition, most think me only slightly odd. I have only told my ex who at first she was full of ridicule but later understanding. Also to a close friend couple who I'm not sure entirely believe me. I have read that it's possible to outgrow much of it which would about sum me up I think.
Good to be here among some similarly strange folks.
I am not officially diagnosed with Aspergers that I know of, but its occurred to me that my parents maybe just never told me. I learned about the condition in adulthood and my childhood made a lot more sense after the fact. I would say as a kid I was a solid example of 80% of the usual conditions. I was sent to see guidance Councillors often in school and was once sent to a University Psychology department for a study, in which I was afterwards told I was "normal" (as if).
To try and not drag this out too long. The picking at my brain stopped at about 10 years old. With adolescence I became awkward as you might expect and speech started becoming difficult for no reason I can explain. No one at all had anything other than ridicule for it. That has improved greatly but not entirely. Some people out here just think I have an Eastern Canadian accent which I accept as better than it being known as some sort of condition. Dating has ranged anywhere from N/A to "disaster" but I can share that in the dating section.
Through it all I have adapted very well and no one can even tell of my condition, most think me only slightly odd. I have only told my ex who at first she was full of ridicule but later understanding. Also to a close friend couple who I'm not sure entirely believe me. I have read that it's possible to outgrow much of it which would about sum me up I think.
Good to be here among some similarly strange folks.
