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Hello everybody. I first heard about AS a couple of month ago when someone on msn with AS told me about it. I looked it up on the net, and realized I fit some of the symptoms. Those symptoms seemed to explain so well some of my “weird” behaviour. Socializing for example has been difficult for me: I have few friends (don’t feel like needing a lot though), never dated a girl, difficulties making conversations (although I’ve improved in that), sometimes difficulties to know how to behave socially, not knowing or understanding what people think or feel (I have a clue, but I’m never sure), taking figures of speech too literally (I really felt stupid sometimes ). I also feel stressed in certain situations (making phone calls for example); when facing a new situation, I need that people explain me what that new situation is like and what I’m expected to do; I hate speaking in public or being in the centre of attention; I hate it when my usual routine or habits are interrupted; I can’t make up stories and I’m a terrible liar.

I’ve experienced other symptoms more “mildly”. I don’t really have a passion for a specific subject. I’m interested in a lot of things, and I like to change from subject to subject, as, if I get into one particular subject for too long, I get fed up with it eventually. But I know that when I was a child, I was particularly interested in geography, in a intense way for a child of that age (I think).

Finally, there are some symptoms that didn’t fit me at all.

At the end, I felt a bit confused, I kind of wanted to believe I had some sort of AS, but I was far from sure of having it.

After some thinking and talking with that guy on msn again (who explained me the spectrum), I concluded that whether or not I had AS wasn’t that important, as long as I continued living my life, accepting myself as I am, trying to fit in as well as I felt needed to feel happy. Maybe I would have reacted a bit differently a couple of years ago, when I was in high school and when I considered myself to be a weirdo, but I’ve improved my self-esteem since and I’ve convinced myself that I could live a normal life.

The topic came back on another forum a couple of days back and I found this forum. I got interested in Aspergers again. I also took tests: I took the Aspie test two times: 1st time I got 89 Aspie score (112 NT), second time 98 Aspie (93 NT). I took another test where I got 34/50. In both cases, I seem to “on the borderline”. I wonder if there are people here who have the same thing

I don’t know if it was necessary to post this message and I don’t know if I’m going to stay on this forum for a long time, but as I don’t want to talk about this to the people I know, and as I wanted to share it with someone, I figured I could just do it.

I hope I didn’t bore you and I beg you to forgive me for my non-perfect English , but it’s only my third language.

Nice to meet you, Eneujel.

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Welcome Eneujel!

Hi Eneujel

welcome to WP.

You certainly aren't doing horrible at English since it is your third language! I applaud you for that.

I hope you enjoy posting here.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

welcome

Welcome Eneujel. I never scored very high on the Aspie test either (106 and NT 79) But I never thought it important what score I got.
I would suggest browsing through the forums, and if you feel like you belong here, then stay.
Even if you do have aspergers you might not need what this forum has to offer. (Not at the moment at least) but if you ever feel the need to
ask for help, then this forum is an excelent pace to do so.

Thanks for the welcomes

Welcome to WP!