Hi guys, I'm Andy from the UK.
Never really thought there was anything different about myself, just accepted that people didn't seem to like my face and just moved on with it. Had a weird upbringing with an abusive father, bullied all the way through primary and secondary schools, now as an adult struggle like hell to 'fit in' anywhere.
Caught the last 5 mins of an english show called 'embarrassing bodies' that had an Aspie on it explaining his symptoms, and it got me here via Wikipedia.
Now for the first time in my life (I'm 34) I feel like something finally makes sense. I finally have a name for the demon that has made this life much harder work than it seemed like it had to be, and I've found other people who are having issues similar to mine.
I have never been diagnosed, just fairly damn certain I tick nearly every box. If there's a sliding scale for severity I think I'm at the NT end of it, not the really difficult end.
I just told my (NT) wife about this and she just gave me a slightly worried sideways look and chose to ignore it as a phase I guess.
Anyway thats me, I've bored anyone enough so now I'm off exploring the forums!
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General Anxiety Disorder.
PS4 username is same as my username here. If you send a friend request, mention Wrongplanet.net.
21 Apr 2014, 4:57 am
