Introduction

Hello my name is Gordon and I am relatively new to the spectrum. I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome last year, at the time my good lady and daughter suggested I sign up to a site like this but at my age I thought bugger to that! But now as the country is now in this terrible time I thought maybe I should. Life is short and far too precious to be trying to be proud. As it happens I am glad I was diagnosed as it answered so many questions I had. All through my life I had always been different. I was quiet and I hated chage and anything loud made me want to scream and cover my ears. As a lad I often acted out of character when things got on top of me, this resulted in having my father's belt. When my lady and I had our first child, our son and he was different i made sure to never try to shape him into an ordinary man like my father had done with me in the hopes he would turn out as himself and not my own idea of how he should be. This worked for us and he became a fine man, different in the way he acted and spoke but we didn't care. He was healthy and loving and we loved him.
In total we had seven children, five daughters and two sons. They were all different and reminded me of myself when I was growing up. They didn't have to fight in any wars or have their father's belt to contend with so I like to think despite their difficulties they had good and happy childhoods. Having lived through many things I was able to encourage them to go into the right things. I have done many things including serving as a police officer in the 1980s and 1990s, and other than driving some of Britain's finest cars the job was not a good one for someone on the spectrum so I encouraged them to do quieter jobs which didn't involve so much noise and change. It wasn't until the last ten years when they were diagnosed with Aspergers and it was their diagnosis' which got me to thinking maybe I should be diagnosed as well. At my time of life there seemed little point but after my good lady's nagging and constant keeping on rom my children, and grandchildren, I went and now here we are. I'm at a loss really of what to do now that I am diagnosed. I'm the same as I ever was and other than doing breathing exercises and learning games with my family not much has changed. Unfortunately I lost my good lady in December 2019 and I still struggle to adjust to life without her and miss her, nagging and all! I am lucky though to have a very big loving family still with me and they keep my days full of life and pleasure.

So I suppose the only thing left for me to say is hello, how do you do?