I can relate to 95% of your description of Aspergers, and many of the follow-on comments. Makes me wonder if I would be diagnosed as such. Then, second thoughts find me questioning what such knowledge would do for me, anyway...
Danielle, you're absolutely right -- it's a liability, not an asset! I'm now 37, been back in school since just turning 30. Most of my classmates have been 10 to 15 years younger, and even many professors, my age or younger. So, I…
Well, the intro to this group says, "Are you single and looking? Then join!" I almost didn't join, because I'm single, but I'm not looking. More accurately, I'm single and open to meeting someone, but I'm not…
I don't think LA is very active, from an organized perspective, because there's so much tolerance of disparate thought, it's not needed. I grew up in the Midwest, and have had business that takes me to the Bible Belt for weeks on end,…
Well, the problem is never really whether *I* would date a highly religious person, but more that highly religious people generally have a problem dating "Oh, [we] of little [i.e. no] faith", if they TRULY believe in their convictions.…
What languages can you speak, write, or read?
I know I'm coming late to this party, but just wanted to weigh in. A subtle amendment to your question, however: What languages can you speak, write, read, or sign?
Ah, now I can answer properly.…
I live in Los Angeles, but going to school part time in Dayton, OH. Having grown up in the Midwest (MO & IN), I was happy to get to the diverse and tolerant West coast long ago, so being back for school has been socially difficult with the dominant religious hold. It's taken me from a position of religious apathy to one involving a little more active nontheism...
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Oh cool...I can't remember his name but my intro Psych professor at WSU was working on the heads-up displays for aviation in the military, is it stuff like that?