JasonG
Member
So what's up? I'm new here, I was officially diagnosed in 1995 so I was relatively early.
I've got a keen interest in the listening of music (preferably loud) and I'll admit my honesty has channeled into a crude sense of humor sometimes, I think of it as both a mask and a method acting way of understanding the world a bit better I think. It's crazy, unfair, and twisted, but I have no choice but to accept it and live with it.
All my life, I've never had a community of people like me to talk to. For the longest time I didn't even know what an "aspie" or neurotypical was until about a year ago.
I'm here trying to understand myself better, and to maybe give my input, I'm thinking of maybe blogging my thoughts on here. So forgive me if I get lengthy
Because of my early diagnosis and exceptional treatment at the time, I am high functioning to the point where some people have said they didn't believe I was under the autism spectrum. However I can assure you that until I was 6 I was non verbal.
Sometimes I wonder if I got this far because I am more obsessed with reality than fiction. That includes social realities; so purely out of sheer force of understanding certain patterns of behavior from so called "normal" people I've lived a relatively successful social life. I feel myself slipping though, like I haven't had anything truly therapeutic in awhile for my condition, and I'm falling behind, either because I'm fighting to hard or because I'm in a new place where nobody knows my name and I'm broke.
That's why I'm here, to vent and remember that I'm not alone in this world with my condition. If you have a hard time understanding this than I apologize, my writing style has been adopted to fit a neurotypical conversation online.
So, please feel free to say hi and give commentary. I don't feel like playing twenty questions though so keep it brief.
I've got a keen interest in the listening of music (preferably loud) and I'll admit my honesty has channeled into a crude sense of humor sometimes, I think of it as both a mask and a method acting way of understanding the world a bit better I think. It's crazy, unfair, and twisted, but I have no choice but to accept it and live with it.
All my life, I've never had a community of people like me to talk to. For the longest time I didn't even know what an "aspie" or neurotypical was until about a year ago.
I'm here trying to understand myself better, and to maybe give my input, I'm thinking of maybe blogging my thoughts on here. So forgive me if I get lengthy
Because of my early diagnosis and exceptional treatment at the time, I am high functioning to the point where some people have said they didn't believe I was under the autism spectrum. However I can assure you that until I was 6 I was non verbal.
Sometimes I wonder if I got this far because I am more obsessed with reality than fiction. That includes social realities; so purely out of sheer force of understanding certain patterns of behavior from so called "normal" people I've lived a relatively successful social life. I feel myself slipping though, like I haven't had anything truly therapeutic in awhile for my condition, and I'm falling behind, either because I'm fighting to hard or because I'm in a new place where nobody knows my name and I'm broke.
That's why I'm here, to vent and remember that I'm not alone in this world with my condition. If you have a hard time understanding this than I apologize, my writing style has been adopted to fit a neurotypical conversation online.
So, please feel free to say hi and give commentary. I don't feel like playing twenty questions though so keep it brief.
