F84.5 - This is the ICD-10 code for my condition, called Asperger's Syndrome. It's a milder form of autism, and it has designed me to be like I am.
I was born in 1989, exactly 2 weeks after Baltic Chain. When I was small child I learned to read quicker than to speak. Early in the 1990's, I seemed to have sense of reality completely absent... It finally started coming in late in the century and early 21st century. When I was small - I practically lived in my own fantasy world (to be honest, it hasn't completely disappeared, just I've "climbed out" of it, and now it is just in my fantasies, and occasionally in my writings). I was lucky to study my first years of school in the village I lived in. By the time I went to middle school(which was by the way, done for people with disabilities), I had still a lot of behavioural problems, and I was... as I would say, strange. But I am improving. By the time I went to high school, I had developed quite a big interest in weather, but I still couldn't be anywhere alone. The latter was not the case anymore by 2007. As long as somebody I knew was nearby, I could easily go at a summer camp while parents hundreds of kilometers away, provided I could obtain external help for more complicated tasks, such as packing up a tent. Last year, I graduated high school. But still, I have some quirks, and some will remain with me for rest of my life.
So what's AS in a nutshell? Intelligence working as usual, but social skills not so good. One of the quirks is also that you might notice that I am not too good at making direct eye contacts... Sometimes I may sound a little obsessive on certain topics. At the same time, I can memorize various bits of information.
April 2 is World Autism Awareness day. Autism related topics touch me quite much as my younger brother is autistic andd I myself with Aspergers Syndrome. Some have told me that I should hide my condition when in communication because of various attitudes that people might have, but I have chosen not to. I think hadn't I got AS, all I'd be would be just an average Joonas.
