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Thanks! I got frustrated after even a newly created throwaway was immediately unable to post anymore on fiber and posted one more comment (that I had already typed) over 3g. Right now I'm too busy to comment more, but thanks for flagging me as legit.

While on the subject, I might also mention that the guidelines ask me to mail info@ycombinator.com for questions instead of posting here. I would, it's just that:

> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

> info@ycombinator.com

> Technical details of permanent failure: Message rejected by Google Groups. Please visit http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=18... to review our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines.

For the record, I never sent bulk e-mail to any address or service. It's really a hard reject and not just a push to the spambox. Google doesn't seem to care about individuals hosting their mail at home (usually I end up in spam, something Gmail users never seem to look in).

Not being able to comment normally and then not being allowed to email you because of a third party (which is too monstrously large to complain to) is quite annoying.

Oops, I meant over 500cpm which is around 100wpm. My bad.

> One of the keys to treatment is catching it early.

And then given the right information. My parents were told I might never cross the street alone or write the letter K in handwriting because it was too complex. Look at me: I type 500wpm and write software better than most in class.

The issues for me arise with planning and social things. I might make plans, but I am never able to stick to them if there is no real urge. If someone is not waiting for something to happen and I don't feel like doing it, it's not going to happen. If I think I can make something in 5 hours and the deadline is midnight, I might start on it 4 hours before midnight. And then there is a whole range of social issues, though I can go to a normal school and normal businesses.

My parents just disregarded the entire diagnosis at 6 years old because, look, I could cross the street not much later. Up until about 13 years old, this approach worked fine. It might have been nice to know what really is going on though.

> It sounds like although you were "cured" of Asperger's

No. We are never cured; we learn to cope if we have the mental capability. We are not cured.

I feel you. The weirdest thing about it for me is that I try to hide this even from myself. I'm trying to be normal all day and think I don't even suffer from autism that badly, but every now and again it just cracks.

In a way I'm like everyone else. I care about friends and family; I try to be productive and make useful things; I like learning about new technologies. At the same time I'm also different and people notice it. They don't ask me when a group in class is going out to celebrate the holidays. I'd chicken out of this social happening and probably say no, but what bothers me is that they don't even ask.

Some vocalize that they notice something is off and I might tell them about autism and give them an outline of what it means. If I tell them I often also ask if they can put it into concrete examples of what I do differently. They never can.

But I'll carry on. I'm normal enough, I can pull through life and make a living. Hope to meet a SO some day who understands me. That probably means she must have her limitations too and I'll have to live with that, but in return she might understand mine and that's worth all the gold in the world.

Hope this isn't too weird a post for Hacker News, I needed to write this after reading about a fellow person with autism. Keep hacking.