Hello

Hi folks

I'm in my early 60's and only just starting to understand people around me. When I was younger, I was unable to make sense of conversations, so I stayed away. It didn't help being in a services family - moving on average once a year. I'd make some friends, then move on. So I have very few memories before the age of 11.

In one-2-one conversations I'm fine. In a group, I can only watch from the sidelines as the conversation rockets around me. I feel slow and isolated.

An incident at University caused me to withdraw even more and I shut myself away for about eight years before I had a chance of therapy, then things started to change.

P