Coincidental Meeting

[total-recoil]

There was a quite a pleasant and fairly attractive new female worker who started work recently, so I decided to join her work table to chat her up a bit. I'm quite prone to chatting girls up these days since the fact I doubt I'll ever have any success makes me kind of bold. Anyway, here is the shock: After chatting about various things, it turns out this girl has a PHD in neurobiology and is soon to depart for Scotland where she continues her studies in psychiatry with an emphasis on the autism spectrum. I had to smile and wonder if she had any notion she was working with someone who has HFA but I make it a policy not to tell anybody about it any more so I had to keep silent. She was basically telling me her angle on the autism spectrum involved studies of the brain so not a psychological approach, more psychiatry. My own understanding, of course, is based on experience and what I learned and read over the last few months. Less scientific but I would have loved to tell her my story really.
No idea if based on her knowledge she would work it out in time that I'm on the spectrum as I suppose there are certain signs - too subtle for the average person to pick up on. Maybe I could give a few hints but wouldn't openly tell anyone. Maybe we will get chance to chat again before she goes to university again.

 

[Aspieistj]

If she is truly interested in Autism I would expect she is non-judgemental of those on the spectrum. If I were you I would tell her on her last day of work and ask her not to share you information with anyone at work. She might be interested/willing to write to you occasionally and possibly use your experiences in her research. Good luck!