Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Hello all, and to R. T. T.
I can empathize and understand where you are coming from completely. I’m 42 years old and look back over a life landscape of internal “viewing”, living in a small scope of existence with little outward interconnection either socially or intimately that I often am not “aware” of. It only becomes evident when I try to break the membrane of my own world and interconnect with others through language that I am just baffled. I see others carrying on conversations, laughing and interacting and when I try this it is difficult, awkward and odd and apparently also for the others around me as they seem to cut out of the “conversation” abruptly. So, I don’t talk much. It’s just too difficult to see the obvious reactions of others. However, I am extremely detailed oriented, excellent in my scientific profession and people do come to me to solve problems. This is why they keep me around I believe, not for my interpersonal skills. It would be nice to “talk”(write) to others with similar experience. We (meaning us with Asberger’s) so need each other out there to come into each other’s little worlds, so few in our real lives will. We know we are not so weird as other’s make us out to be.