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Joined: 2 Sep 2009
Age: 60
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Location: Oro Valley, AZ

03 Sep 2009, 11:37 pm

I am new here. I have been meaning to come here since I learned about this place though the Asperger's community on Live Journal.

I was considered abnormal right from the start. Other kids made fun of the way I talked in kindergarten. My parents put me in speech therapy. 1st grade I had a teacher who was a perfectionist (she had taught 6th grade the year before), pretty much put me at the bottom of the class. My peers made fun of me. They started fights with me. I ended up going to all sorts of mental health doctors. I was even given a brain wave test (this was 1972...cutting edge). I reacted badly to Ritalin so I was given Melaril. Joy. Seven years old and already on antiphsycotics and separated from the rest of the school for the protection of the other students (i.e. Behavior Disorders). From then on the die was cast. I would be an outcast wherever I went. Home seemed to be the only exception. My immediate family may have never been able to totally figure me out but I was not an outcast in my own family.

It was this quest to understand me that lead them to think I had Aspergers. About a year ago they had talked to some of their friends that had a son with AS. They read a book and were convinced that I had AS. It took about a month or so of looking things up online, reading some books, talking to friends that had some knowledge or experience (one who introduced me to the lJ community) and so on for me to be totally convinced that I had AS.

So here I am. Unemployed, undiagnosed for AS but with sustained depression.

Hi.

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04 Sep 2009, 12:22 am

Welcome to WP. Diagnosed or not, depressed or otherwise, make yourself comfortable. I hope the discovery of AS as an underlying explanation for how your brain works leads to new insights into who you are and what you can do. Think of the discovery as an opportunity to reinterpret your past and reconsider your future.

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04 Sep 2009, 6:52 am

cornelius413- I like the name, lol ! !! :oops:

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