Stan Z.
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Hey, everyone.
Name's Stanley. I'm 18, and I'm a high school senior. I plan to go to college within the fall semester to pursue my career of graphic design. Currently in my last year of my high school career, I maintain a 90+ grade average (we use the 0-100 GPA scale in our school district).
I'm also black (rare for an aspie, I know). I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome almost 6 years ago by a school psychologist, and all of my symptoms (talking/whispering to myself, mood swings, acting out what I visualize in my head, etc.) seem to ring true of the disorder. To this day, my Liberian dad (I'm part of the first American-born kids in my family along with my two smaller brothers) STILL can't believe I'm an Aspie because of the backlash in the Liberian community that my dad and now my stepmom (my previous mom died of liver disease back in 2014) they might get, because the community (and the American black community, as well) usually take mental disorders jokingly (which sucks). Just goes to show you how much of a lack of mental health awareness there is in minority communities here in the U.S. My dad thinks that nothing is wrong with me because when I was born, the doctor found nothing "mentally wrong" with me, or something like that....but I don't know. I've been in a mental hospital for three weeks due to severe depression back in 2013. I'm fine now, but I only got better due to my school psychologist (and other therapists that I've met) talking with me and helping me out with my social anxiety and whatnot in 8th grade. But I just feel like a recluse within my family circuit and the real world because of my upbringing with Liberian parents.
It doesn't help make matters better when I'm a closet agnostic atheist in fear of my family disowning me. They're content with my political conservatism, though (lol). So yeah, I am a very, very eccentric person. I'm probably the only black agnostic atheist conservative (who's an Aspie) that you'll probably ever know.....
How can I be able to enjoy a great adult life with my overzealous, heavily Christian Liberian family all over me? And you can pretty much forget me ever getting married since I don't think my personality has ANY commonality within any girl in America, and of course, my parents might have to know about her as well, so yeah. I'm single, confused, and (pathetically) lonely. Help?
Name's Stanley. I'm 18, and I'm a high school senior. I plan to go to college within the fall semester to pursue my career of graphic design. Currently in my last year of my high school career, I maintain a 90+ grade average (we use the 0-100 GPA scale in our school district).
I'm also black (rare for an aspie, I know). I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome almost 6 years ago by a school psychologist, and all of my symptoms (talking/whispering to myself, mood swings, acting out what I visualize in my head, etc.) seem to ring true of the disorder. To this day, my Liberian dad (I'm part of the first American-born kids in my family along with my two smaller brothers) STILL can't believe I'm an Aspie because of the backlash in the Liberian community that my dad and now my stepmom (my previous mom died of liver disease back in 2014) they might get, because the community (and the American black community, as well) usually take mental disorders jokingly (which sucks). Just goes to show you how much of a lack of mental health awareness there is in minority communities here in the U.S. My dad thinks that nothing is wrong with me because when I was born, the doctor found nothing "mentally wrong" with me, or something like that....but I don't know. I've been in a mental hospital for three weeks due to severe depression back in 2013. I'm fine now, but I only got better due to my school psychologist (and other therapists that I've met) talking with me and helping me out with my social anxiety and whatnot in 8th grade. But I just feel like a recluse within my family circuit and the real world because of my upbringing with Liberian parents.
It doesn't help make matters better when I'm a closet agnostic atheist in fear of my family disowning me. They're content with my political conservatism, though (lol). So yeah, I am a very, very eccentric person. I'm probably the only black agnostic atheist conservative (who's an Aspie) that you'll probably ever know.....
How can I be able to enjoy a great adult life with my overzealous, heavily Christian Liberian family all over me? And you can pretty much forget me ever getting married since I don't think my personality has ANY commonality within any girl in America, and of course, my parents might have to know about her as well, so yeah. I'm single, confused, and (pathetically) lonely. Help?
But then I've never had anyone give a number of labels in their introduction, so I can't say that I'm 100% sure of that. 
