christiaan LeGrand
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Hello. My name is Christiaan. I'm 49 years old, but I'm a serious case of arrested development. Lol. I recently took an asperger's quotient test and scored WAY higher than I ever thought I might. I scored 42 in the AQ test. ...
I have photophobia, which I thought was unrelated. I can't handle sudden bright lights. Sudden increase in lights actually triggers a panic episode, usually. Also, I cannot be in a room with a lot of conversations going on ... even if someone is right next to me and talking, I can't hear them in a situation where there is a drone of other people talking. I discovered this is a sign of autism.
I'm encyclopedic on many subjects, especially involving numeric values. I see patterns everywhere. I only have only a HS diploma, but I have been hired by a very high-end telescope company ... one of the owners was a client, and somehow we began working out engineering issues and optical problems on cocktail napkins... he convinced me to go to work for him.
I have almost zero close friends. ... they usually fade away.. all of the ones that I keep in touch with are foreigners... I suspect it is because they can't discern my social shortcomings.
I teach tennis for a living. I'm sure I'm very good at what I do. I have a year-long waitlist for a new client, my students reach a high level of proficiency at an unusual rate, it seems.... most people who know me probably would never suspect I'm autistic. They have no idea that under the public image of me is what amounts to a quite complex algorithm of logical responses that I have mastered over 30 years... it is thoroughly exhausting though.
All of that said, I really love people and wish to help them, ... and when I have the fuel, I do like to meet new people.
I have photophobia, which I thought was unrelated. I can't handle sudden bright lights. Sudden increase in lights actually triggers a panic episode, usually. Also, I cannot be in a room with a lot of conversations going on ... even if someone is right next to me and talking, I can't hear them in a situation where there is a drone of other people talking. I discovered this is a sign of autism.
I'm encyclopedic on many subjects, especially involving numeric values. I see patterns everywhere. I only have only a HS diploma, but I have been hired by a very high-end telescope company ... one of the owners was a client, and somehow we began working out engineering issues and optical problems on cocktail napkins... he convinced me to go to work for him.
I have almost zero close friends. ... they usually fade away.. all of the ones that I keep in touch with are foreigners... I suspect it is because they can't discern my social shortcomings.
I teach tennis for a living. I'm sure I'm very good at what I do. I have a year-long waitlist for a new client, my students reach a high level of proficiency at an unusual rate, it seems.... most people who know me probably would never suspect I'm autistic. They have no idea that under the public image of me is what amounts to a quite complex algorithm of logical responses that I have mastered over 30 years... it is thoroughly exhausting though.
All of that said, I really love people and wish to help them, ... and when I have the fuel, I do like to meet new people.
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