Hello,
I just signed up today, on recommendation of my mother. She is self-diagnosed aspie, herself, and noticed the forum while looking up information on it. She said I should probably make an account, since the apple didn't exactly fall too far from the tree.
So, general info first (well, second, anyway). I'm 25, male, and a big geek since I was five and programming on my dad's Color Computer from Radio Shack. I work as a database engineer / software developer. In my spare time I like to work on various code projects I started, write, draw, and work on my cars.
I'm pretty sure, as are most of my friends / family (the ones that have clues, anyway), I fit somewhere on the scale for being aspie, but someday a real diagnosis would be nice. Even if technically they said I wasn't, I have way more than enough similarities that I'm sure I could get an honorary induction into the hall of aspies (haha).
I am hoping it will be nice to talk with people who don't just think I am "stunted" because I was homeschooled, a sociopath, or just nuts for a change. I do have some friends that aren't like that but even they really don't seem to get it sometimes, and I get tired of being an "oddity" for them to regard or a project for them to "fix" through various poorly executed attempts to get me to engage in what they regard as "normal" behaviour.
I just signed up today, on recommendation of my mother. She is self-diagnosed aspie, herself, and noticed the forum while looking up information on it. She said I should probably make an account, since the apple didn't exactly fall too far from the tree.
So, general info first (well, second, anyway). I'm 25, male, and a big geek since I was five and programming on my dad's Color Computer from Radio Shack. I work as a database engineer / software developer. In my spare time I like to work on various code projects I started, write, draw, and work on my cars.
I'm pretty sure, as are most of my friends / family (the ones that have clues, anyway), I fit somewhere on the scale for being aspie, but someday a real diagnosis would be nice. Even if technically they said I wasn't, I have way more than enough similarities that I'm sure I could get an honorary induction into the hall of aspies (haha).
I am hoping it will be nice to talk with people who don't just think I am "stunted" because I was homeschooled, a sociopath, or just nuts for a change. I do have some friends that aren't like that but even they really don't seem to get it sometimes, and I get tired of being an "oddity" for them to regard or a project for them to "fix" through various poorly executed attempts to get me to engage in what they regard as "normal" behaviour.
