Hi everyone,
My name is Dan. I'm 32 and live in West Fargo, North Dakota, with wife and two toddlers. I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2006 during a psych evaluation ordered by the federal court in Fargo prior to being sentenced for politically motivated vandalism. I didn't embrace the diagnosis at that time, but in the past year and a half my outlook has changed. The final thing that convinced me I'm an Aspie was when I took an online multiple choice test asking me to identify emotions by looking at faces. I took half an hour and got 17 correct answers out of 36, lower than the first percentile. I think the average score was 26 and average test time five minutes (I don't remember exactly). Clearly, my brain processes social cues in an unusual and more strenuous manner than most brains. This explains a lot of my lingering social difficulties in the face of all the self-improvement efforts I have undertaken in the past several years. People confuse me, and the confusion stresses me out.
I recently published an e-novel on Amazon inspired by my experience of being civilly committed as a danger to society back in 2006 (before I faced criminal charges). The novel does not explicitly address asperger's, which I did not even know existed at the time I was committed, but there is a lot of aspie subtext in the way the narrator describes things. Aspies who have read it thus far like it a lot.
I don't want to run afoul of rules or folkways on this forum, so I'm not going to post a link yet. I hope someone can advise me as to whether and how I can do so.
Blessings to all.
My name is Dan. I'm 32 and live in West Fargo, North Dakota, with wife and two toddlers. I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2006 during a psych evaluation ordered by the federal court in Fargo prior to being sentenced for politically motivated vandalism. I didn't embrace the diagnosis at that time, but in the past year and a half my outlook has changed. The final thing that convinced me I'm an Aspie was when I took an online multiple choice test asking me to identify emotions by looking at faces. I took half an hour and got 17 correct answers out of 36, lower than the first percentile. I think the average score was 26 and average test time five minutes (I don't remember exactly). Clearly, my brain processes social cues in an unusual and more strenuous manner than most brains. This explains a lot of my lingering social difficulties in the face of all the self-improvement efforts I have undertaken in the past several years. People confuse me, and the confusion stresses me out.
I recently published an e-novel on Amazon inspired by my experience of being civilly committed as a danger to society back in 2006 (before I faced criminal charges). The novel does not explicitly address asperger's, which I did not even know existed at the time I was committed, but there is a lot of aspie subtext in the way the narrator describes things. Aspies who have read it thus far like it a lot.
I don't want to run afoul of rules or folkways on this forum, so I'm not going to post a link yet. I hope someone can advise me as to whether and how I can do so.
Blessings to all.
