Cross-posted from the General Forum for new members:

Hello all, I'll be posting in the APD sub-forum of Personality Place after this initial post. It looks like a quiet place, which of course is what I feel most comfortable with.

Biographically, I'm a 52 year old male who was adopted at age 1 after being born to a very young and neglectful mother. My adoptive parents were rigid evangelicals who shunned worldly things and read the King James Bible daily, out loud. When they reached the end in the book of the Revelation, they started over in Genesis. In retrospect, my early childhood was a perfect setup for what has taken place over time.

I learned to read at an early age, and was generally interested in school. I was a high achiever throughout high school, college and graduate school, and my first job out of graduate school was an attractive one.

Thanks to the overwhelming power of inertia, I am still in that job over 25 years later, but my career is in tatters. I have been married to the same woman for 24 years, and the marriage is barely cordial. We have three wonderful children who do not understand why Dad is so quiet. If I weren't taking the MAOIs (Nardil), I'd really be quiet.

That's it for now. I don't know how often I'll be able to post at the APD sub-forum, my wife has given me a book to read, written by a man who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. She does not exactly dispute my APD diagnosis, but as there is little written about APD, she regularly thrusts books at me that deal with other more famous disorders involving social reluctance and awkwardness. So it goes.