WP: the RIGHT Planet!

Papillon · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

Greetings all.

I've been posting here at WP for some time now and I thought I'd post this one here to let you all know that I derive much personal motivation in interracting with this on-line Aspie community. There are six or so other Aspie communities that I've been posting but WP truly is the apple of my Aspie eye.

I don't have a university in Psychology or anything, just a college education in something else. But I do come to WP seasoned with over four decades of living with that mysterious social oddballism, its real name and nature revealed with my formal Dx at 42. It marked a major milestone in my life that I could finally accept myself for what I am and my AS as part of what I'm all about.

Until that moment, I had navigated my life's journey without any recourses to speak of, and with an endless litany of befuddled -and sometimes mean-spirited teachers, hostile school mates, neighbors who tagged me with various unflattering labels, and employers and colleagues who could not or would not understand. And then I saw through a window into my own past with the school scenes at the beginning of the movie Forrest Gump.

The day of my Dx's revelation, there is a four-letter f-word that ceased to exist in my vocabulary: False Evidence Appearing Real (Take the first letter of each, you'll se what I mean). That day also marked my own emergence from a cocoon that had been my existence and my testing of my wings.

For those of you who are not aware, Papillon means butterfly in French. That handle is inspired by Henri Charrière's book and the movie of the same name. In many ways, my own life's journey echoes that French escape artist's life.

WP is my flower garden and its posters are the flowers I visit at their moments of blooming. Fellow Aspies, if that thread you started strikes any chord with me, I'll most certainly come along and put a bug in your ear Wink

This is my own example of leaving the past behind and letting bygones be bygones. You all have much to offer and I have much to share. I look forward to continued correspondences with you all.

I am

Papillon

Heart

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If "manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

**Sting, Englishman In New York