Looking back-What first brought you to WP?

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For me it was immediately after my high school graduation overnighter. It was held in this giant gymnasium/fitness club deal, there was a dance floor, some games, some food, karaoke, and so on(the works). When I was there I didn't have a single proper conversation with anyone. It was sort of humiliating and enlightening, I'd spent four years of my life with these people and couldn't relate to them at all.

There was a girl involved as well, as there always is, but the main point is that I knew then that something had to change if I wanted to get through my life. I couldn't just be content to be a ghost incapable of anything but minor social interaction while I was intellectually alive. I'd rather be dead.

So I remembered I'd seen this place in the past and decided to join, thinking a community of fellow aspies would be easier to relate to/use to make myself a more sociable person like I was when I was much younger.
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What are your stories? They needn't be as necessarily as long as mine, a quote of your first post might be amusing.

I honestly don't remember at all how I heard about WP; but I'm very glad I did.

A thread about David Byrne.

The thread about unusual accents is what attracted me, to WrongPlanet.

I'd heard Asperger's referred to as "Wrong Planet Syndrome". So I googled "asperger's wrong planet syndrome", came across the WP forums and decided to join.

I think I followed a link from Aspergia.

I've heard of Wrongplanet from watching videos about aspergers last year and then one of the members "CleverKitten" mentioned on her shoutout video about WP.

So I went to lurk there for about a month and then I thought, hang on? If I could express myself there, I just don't see the harm in that.

So then I started to join.

That's my story what ended up getting me here.

I was looking for information on AS and found the weblink to WP at about.com

I first saw a few links and things some years ago.
Then in late 2008 I saw a video where some guy was basically saying that everyone on here is an aspie supremicist and they all say disturbing things on the chatroom, so I was like "is it really that bad??" Found out it was actually really really good and have been addicted ever since.

curiosity about who i was. i had always heard about autism and was intrigued and confused when i was told i had a form of it.

it all makes sense now, yes indeedy.

One day I Googled to find out why I was always counting and had other strange differences to other people. That led to some online tests which said I very likely had Aspergers syndrome, which led to this site and discovering lots of people sharing many of the same traits as me. Been hooked to the site and the people here since.

My son's diagnosis as HFA.


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Wikipedia led me here (it was also on Wikipedia that I learned of the existence of AS in the first place).

I first came here in 2007, during my pre-diagnosed phase of reading everything about AS that I could, and stuck around lurking until I got the courage to actually register.

In April of '08 one of my teachers (who knows about my Asperger's) sent me an e-mail informing me of this site and asking if I had ever seen it. I followed the link, decided the site seemed interesting enough, and joined the same day.

Desperate to be understood.

Googled asperger's forum.

Somebody who used to come here said I could find others like us here.