Hi my name is Bekki, I am 28 years old and I was diagnosed as having Aspergers at the age of 21.
Aspergers is an autistic spectrum disorder, which affects day to day life for many.
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People with Aspergers often strive for a logical world, so imagine my horror when I realised there where things I could not logically explain.
I was only a child when I had my first paranormal experience, I would wake from a deep sleep and during that brief period between sleep and waking I would feel someone touching my face lightly, then I'd subconciously reach out my hand and feel a warm patch on the bed, but as soon as I woke fully it was gone.
I experienced this feeling many times and still do on the odd occasion, I have gone through all the possibilities, 'Was someone else sneaking into my room, maybe my parents?' but after barricading my door from the inside and experiencing it again, I was sure it wasn't.
This was not the only paranormal experience I have had, I often felt the presence of people around me and was told many times as a child that I was making things up and talking to myself. Yet I always seemed to know stuff that I wouldn't normally know.
I tried on a number of occasions to tell my family what I was experiencing, but as they where already struggling with my behaviour and Aspergers traits, which hadn't then being diagnosed, I was told to stop being silly.
I ended up in prison after my undiagnosed aspergers took over my life and I gave up on the thought of ever recieving the help I needed.
It was while in prison I was diagnosed as having Aspergers.
Prison's all have atmosphere's and there was a number of occasions officers caught me talking to myself and despite my best efforts to hide my contact with the dead, I couldn't, so when someone suggested I may be schitzophrenic I was willing to accept it, at least it was logical, if I was ill they could do something about it.
But after a meeting with the doctor I was told he didn't believe I was schitzophrenic as evrything I had said tallied up with the prison's history. Which although was interesting (A doctor suggesting thier patient may be phsyic) I was actually quite angry, I would rather accept I was ill than accept the unacceptable.
But that was the end of that explanation and I still continued to experience feelings, senses spirits around me and it was only when I started going on ghost hunts with NGI that I realised I wasn't crazy and there were others out there who like me saw spirits.
It also gave me the opportuinty to explore the paranormal and its logicality in a little more detail.
I am now no longer a team member with NGI, but instead work solo on my ghost hunting, and attend ghost hunts with different teams throughout the UK, to broaden my horizen and look at the ghost hunting world from different angles.
