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Name: Sebastian

Age: 21

Location: Munich, Germany

Hobbies: computing in general, hardware, programming, manga, neurology, philosophy

Grade: finished German gymnasium (like US highschool + college)

Why are you here: I know for a long time that I am somewhat "different" than other people, maybe this is the right place for me.

When were you diagnosed: Never, but a some of the conditions for asperger apply for me.

Favorite Music: A lot of stuff, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Apocalyptica, German Gothic (Deine Lakaien, Tanzwut), Die Ärzte, Kruder&Dorfmeister and many many more

Favorite Movie: Pi, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Ghost in the Shell, Akira

Favorite Book: Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy by D. Adams, BLAME! (Manga), everything by Stanislaw Lem, The Dark Tower Heptalogie by Steven King

Instrument: Played the alto sax some time ago, want to start again

Do you like Sports: I hate sports with any kinds of balls or teams, but I like swimming, rock-climbing, hiking, scuba-diving.

Family: Parents, two youger sisters (18&10)

Clothing: Usually pretty normal stuff, cargopants + t-shirt. Sometimes a bit crazy and/or dark

How did you find this website: Google search, after reading about asperger in wikipedia

Plans for the future: Getting into neurology research, either via medicine or via informatics.

What is your first name? jamie

Age: 22

Location: united kingdom

Hobbies and Interests: listening to music, reading, internet. i adore music

Why are you here? aspergers

When were you diagnosed? aged 18

favourite subjects: i'm no longer at school but when i was it was history

Year/Grade: n/a

Favorite music: too many artists to mention. my favourite band of all time is probably joy division

Books: charles bukowski, jack kerouac, william burroughs, oscar wilde etc

TV shows/Movies: monkey dust/ buffalo 66, the ice storm, gummo

Instrument: none regrettably

Do you like sports? yes. football mainly or what americans refer to as soccer

Family: parents

Clothing: is too important

How did you find this website? i followed a link from wikipedia

Job: none

Plans for the future? i try to avoid plans as one of my favourite things about the future is that its uncertain

Any comments? life with aspergers is rather lonesome

Name: Rebecca

Age: 17

Location: Washington State in the USA (but I'm an Australian citizen)

Hobbies/Interests: Harry Potter (mugglenet.com), movies, Broadway musicals (performing arts, in general), some history, and AS

Why are you here: I have Aspergers

When were you diagnosed: October, 2003

Favourite subjects: Spanish, French, and German

Year/Grade: 12

Music: my taste is quite ecclectic, musicals, classic rock (AC/DC), The Town Pants (a small Canadian band that plays Celtic music), anything that you can dance to, anything except for country western

Books: a lot of different ones, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging etc.), The DaVinci Code (quite an AS sort of book), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (extremely AS), and HARRY POTTER (obviously)

TV Shows: South Park, The Daily Show, Iron Chef, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (hilarious)

Movies: so many, Billy Elliot, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars (the older ones), Indiana Jones, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Srtictly Ballroom, The Princess Bride, Rain Man, E.T. (the ONLY movie that has ever made me cry), anything Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Potter movies, It's a Wonderful Life (every Christmas), Love Actually, Copycat, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, ... this list could go on an on...

Instruments: none (don't have time...too busy watching movies )

Sports: none, will sometimes watch rugby or Aussie rules if it's on

Family: Mum, Dad, and me (I'm an only child). My aunt (mum's sister) and uncle live about half of a mile away from us and she has two daughters. My mum's side of the family live in Melbourne, Australia.

Clothing: casual and comfortable

How did you find this website: I don't remember, probably a link from another AS site

Job: I work at the ballet school my parents own (studied it for 13 years)

Plans for future: Not sure yet, still figuring that out.

Age: 38

Location: London, UK

Hobbies and Interests: Kite Flying, Reading, Final Fantasy

Why are you here? AS approved

When were you diagnosed? 2002

Favorite subjects: English Literature

Year/Grade: N/A

Favorite music: Punk, Ska, Hip Hop, Trad Jazz, Reggae

Books: Anne Rice, Piers Anthony, Laurell K Hamilton

TV shows/Movies: Hate TV... Movies; Tim Burton, Japanese Godzilla, Anime

Instrument: None

Family: Mum & Step father (divorced) Sister. My daughter

Clothing: Sometimes

Job: IT and Biotech

What is your first name? lucy

Age: 15

Location: en los estados unidos

Hobbies and Interests: sports, drawing, friends, acting

Why are you here? mild aspergers

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 10 years ago

Favorite subjects: ap studio art!! ! ooh sex ed too haha

Year/Grade: 10th

Favorite music: alt. rock like weezer, hot hot heat, incubus, soundgarden, emo stuff like that

Books: anything i find

TV shows/Movies: will & grace, the oc (yay) that 70s show

Instrument: i wanna learn guitar

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: hockey, track

Family: love em!! !

Clothing: baggy sports pants w/ girly tank tops or jeans usually

Job: not yet

What are you planning to do when you get older? magazine??? who knows? too early to tell.

What is your first name? J
Age: between 0 and infinity

Location: Between Tecumseh's and Boone's old haunts.

Hobbies and Interests: Ancient Tech, art, computers, video games, movies, history, theoretical physics, music, writing, sci-fi, electronics, robotics, reading (Zelazny, Clive Barker, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Earle Stanley Gardner, classics, chinese novels (translated, not learned chinese...yet))

Why are you here? AS, ADHD, DepNOS

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 4 days ago, though I was told weak attempts were made to discover my distinctness when I was 2, 6, and 13.

Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade: n/a

Favorite music: what I call energy music or anything that is not boring, heavy metal, alt., rap, etc. including but not limited to Ludicris, Offspring, Greenday, Smashing Pumpkins, Black Eyed Peas, etc.

Books: Chinese classic (I have read 2 versions of the Three Kingdoms, and 1 version of Outlaws of the Marsh or 2 of the 4 great chinese classics), Clive Barker, Roger Zelazny, Earle Stanley Gardner, Isaac Asimov, Col. Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, etc)

TV shows/Movies: Simpsons, Futurama, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, CSI, Law and Order, 70's show, Who's Line is It anyway?, Star Wars, LOTR, Forbidden Planet, Spiderman, Fright Night, Spaceballs, Top Secret, Real Genius, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, The Last Starfighter (cheesey, but still fun to watch), Tron, Matrix 1 and 2 (3 was like Halloween three, but it ruined the story), Brotherhood of the Wolf, Princess Bride, The Hitcher, "Absolom, Absolom" (w/ Richard Burton as a preist), Seconds, Dark City, etc just to name a few.

Instrument: Don't really know any at present, but have tried and plan to try again piano and guitar, and in the past violin, flute, saxophone, harmonica, drums.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Would like to play soccor and/or football, like to watch MXC, Sumo wrestling, college basketball.

Family: no, i am single, I have parents and a brother though.

Clothing: usually jeans and t-shirt, avoid suits like the plague and can't stand wool, and most sweaters, and new stiff jeans or pants, only broken in or relaxed fit.

Job: not now, had many before.

What are you planning: what do you mean?

Age: 16 (b-day 7/24/88)

Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Hobbies/interests: Cats, reading, writing, some anime (Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost In the Shell, Akira, Blue Seed, a few others), computers, poker

Why I'm here: Make friends, not feel weird

Diagnosis: Asperger's Syndrome, depression

When were you diagnosised?: Age 14 (although since I was 2 people thought I was autistic; but my mother didn't like the label and therefore avoided getting me DX'ed)

Favorite Subjects: English, marketing

Year/Grade: 11th grade

Favorite music: Rock (Rage Against The Machine, Good Charlotte, Marilyn Manson; a lot of others), some techno, and classical music (it all depends on my mood)

Favorite Books: Brave New World, Guiness Book of World Records (I have many editions, even from the sixties), 1984, and some others I can't think of.

TV Shows/Movies: Blue Seed, Serial Experiments Lain, Akira, A.I., Rose Red, Resident Evil, Office Space, Run Lola Run, Ghost in the shell, Ocean's 11, Howard Lederer's videos, my dad's collection of World Series of Poker DVDs

Sports: Hate them (unless you count fighting...)

Family: Stepmom, Dad, two identical twin stepbrothers (4 yrs.), one stepsister (8 yrs.), one sister (6 yrs. almost 7 yrs.)

Clothes: Cat or saying t-shirt and jeans; blue sneakers

Job: I want to be a Research Librarian, or a copy editor. (or author; but realistically that won't pay bills)

What is your first name? Tom

Age: 21

Location: England


Hobbies and Interests: Art, Comic books, reading, playing bass

Why are you here? as

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): age 13

Favorite subjects: Art


Favorite music:Beethoven, Jaco Pastorius, The Cure, Hendrix etc

Books: 1984, jd salinger, the acid house, dark materials

TV shows/Movies: American Splendor

Instrument: bass

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: anything for fun

Family: mum dad brother, sister

Clothing: scruffy rags

How did you find this website?searching the net

Job: college

Plans for the future? no idea

What is your first name? Katt

Age: 18

Location: Bothell, Washington

Hobbies and Interests: Forensics, Sims, science

Why are you here? I have Asperger's and general anxiety

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Late August

Favorite subjects: Science

Year/Grade: 11/12th I'm repeating a year

Favorite music: Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack and CSI Soundtrack

Books: the CSI series by Max Allan Collins, the Prowlers series by Christopher Golden, and the Body of Evidence series also by Christopher Golden

TV shows/Movies: TV; CSI (all series), In a Fix, Movies; Pirates of the Caribbean, Polar Express, Lord of The Rings trilogy, the Harry Potter movies

Instrument: I've played the recorder, flute, picolo, piano, I know three chords on the guitar, and I know three or so notes on the violin

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: not particularly, I wacth baseball and football occaisionally (when my dad has the remote), and I like ice skating although I'm bad at it myself

Family: mom and dad (and my dog Fiona)

Clothing: I grab whatever's clean in the closet and throw it on usually. I get dressed up for church though.

How did you find this website? My mom was doing some searching and she came across it

Job: don't have one. I want to work at the library, but I'm too lazy to turn in the volunteer form.

Plans for the future? I want to work in the Forensic Science field

Any comments? Not really, just that I hope to meet some cool people here that have similar interests.

What is your first name? Elliot
Age: 23

Location: Seattle, WA

Hobbies and Interests: Architecture, British History, Trains, Programming.

Why are you here? Aspergers

When were you diagnosed? Not officially diagnosed.

Favorite subjects: When I was school I liked Physics + Computing.

Year/Grade: N/A

Favorite music: Most pop tunes from the 60s to present

Books: Universe in 6 Numbers, Chaos, Political non fiction.

TV shows/Movies: Don't really watch TV but I like movies, especialy foreign ones (The Ring)

Instrument: Nothing - no ear for music

Do you like sports? Not organised sports - I hike and swim when my body can handle it.

Family: Parents and a younger sister.

Clothing: Jeans, TShirt, jacket. I am no trendsetter though try to look good.

How did you find this website? Browsing

Job: Software Engineer

Plans for the future? Who knows - want to live in Japan for a bit.

What is your first name? Karen

Age: 21

Location: Ireland

Hobbies and Interests: programming, animation, internet, music, reading

Why are you here? self diagnosed aspie, trying to learn more about aspergers, and talk to people with similar experiences


Favorite subjects: In school: french, german, geography, maths
In college: programming, data networking, multimedia
Year/Grade: 10th grade next fall

Favorite music: ranges from rock to metal to classical

Books: LOTR trilogy, Being and Nothingness - Sartre, Nausea - Sartre, The Reader - Bernhard Schlink, A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

TV shows/Movies: The Simpsons

Instrument: guitar, piano, recorder, tin whistle

Do you like sports? I don't play any

Family:Mother, father, brother(19), sister(9)

Clothing: Casual and comfortable

How did you find this website? search on the web

Job: work part time in a health food store.

Plans for the future? Finish my degree, and get a programming related job

What is your first name?

Tom.

Age:

16.

Location:

England.

Hobbies and Interests:

Music, surfing the net, magic.

Why are you here?

Diagnosed aspie, wanting to learn more about others with aspergers.

Favorite subjects:

Sociology, English

Year/Grade:
Yr 12

Favorite music:

Rock, metal etc

Books:

Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm, Lord Of The Rings.

TV shows/Movies:

Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix are 3 of my favourites, although I'll enjoy pretty much anything I watch.

Instrument:

None.

Do you like sports?

I like watching them, but not playing.

Family:

Brother, 21 (AS), Mother ('Normal'), and Father (won't admit to being AS)

Clothing:

Dead Cool. Obviously.

How did you find this website?

Google.

Job:

Student.
Plans for the future?

Finish my A Levels, and get into uni somewhere studying something (dunno what).

What is your first name? Jenn

Age: 22

Location: BC Canada

Hobbies and Interests: Music, soap & candle making, reading, internet.

Why are you here? Aspie

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Can't remember.

Favorite subjects: Not in school.

Year/Grade: Not in school.

Favorite music: Alot of different genres, as long as it's good.

Books: Books written by Storm Constantine, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Tolkien.

TV shows/Movies: The Daily Show, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons, Charmed,

Instrument: Can't play a thing.

Do you like sports? I watch but don't play. Hockey & Soccer are alright.

Family: 2 sisters, a bro. Parents. 3 nieces and 3 nephews.

Clothing: Nothing too special, jeans, a cool tee, and a hoodie.

How did you find this website? Wikipedia.

Job: I work for the family business. Just whatever needs done, nothing specific.

Plans for the future? Not really.

Any comments? Nope.

I've been here for a while now, I should have done this already...Soooo laaazy....


What is your first name? Jo

Age:22

Location: Sydney

Hobbies and Interests: reading, writing, music art (mostly lo-brow, outsider) drawing, comix...

Why are you here? I have Asperger's

When were you diagnosed? Mid teens

Favorite music: lots of different stuff, mostly alt.
Radiohead, Muse, Elliot Smith, Nick Cave...

Books:Joseph Heller, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Addams...

Instrument: I play harmonica and I want to learn guitar.

Family: mum, dad and sister. I'm the only diagnosed aspie.

Clothing: Almost all black. I like to dress up sometimes and I like to wear retro/vintage clothes, but I usually just dress tomboy/geek

How did you find this website? Googled "aspie."

Job: Changes pretty often...

Any comments? I'd like to meet other aspies around my age in Sydney. Seriously, PM me, I don't bite.

*sigh* I suppose I'd better do this thingy since everyone else has (not that I'm caving in to peer pressure or anything.... ). Most people already know me but hi to any newer members

What is your first name? Dunc

Age: 28

Location: Yorkshire, England

Hobbies and Interests: offbeat humour, maps, music, video games, reading. I'm also a bit of a goth

Why are you here? I have recently been diagnosed with AS, and wanted somewhere to annoy people for reasons other than just being an aspie

When were you diagnosed?: age 28, in September

Favorite subjects: Geography, History, Politics, Sociology (but not currently a student)

Year/Grade: finished university 4 years ago

Favorite music: Mostly punk, alternative and goth. Favourite bands include The Smiths, New Model Army, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine, Tool, A Perfect Circle etc etc

Books: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, non fiction mainly travel, geography, history and politics.

TV shows/Movies: I like daft comedy stuff. Favourites include League of Gentlemen and Father Ted. Also a Buffy/Angel nut. Films - Heathers, The Cable Guy, Bill and Ted, LotR trilogy, horror. Anything tacky - I love crap films

Instrument: have some musical ability but have so far lacked the patience to learn to play anything properly

Do you like sports? Not unless eating and sleeping count. I am an armchair football fan (Bradford City)

Family: I am happily married with three noisy kids (one aspie, one not, one not sure yet as he's only 16 months), who bring me such joy and irritation

Clothing: Black. Heh

How did you find this website? link from aspergia

Job: had loads. currently depressed and unable to work

Plans for the future? start writing again, stay solvent, be happy

I'm not sure why I didn't answer this one sooner! It would clear up alot about who I am to people here.

What is your first name? Steve

Age: 25

Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Hobbies and Interests: Boats and ships, personal watercraft, snowmobiles,
skiing, snowboarding, computers, the beach and the sea, philosophy, people and their behavior.

Why are you here? I have "Asperger syndrome" but I'd like to be able to name it something else because that sounds ret*d.

When were you diagnosed? October, 2003

Favorite subjects: Psychology, Philosophy, Art, Mechanics

Year/Grade: Graduated from HS, going to technical college next year to train as industrial mechanic.

Favorite music: Almost everything

Books: Anything to do with my interests...I have alot of books on ships, engines and psychology.

TV shows/Movies: I like them if they interest me....no favorites really.

Instrument: Piano and guitar

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Extreme sports like Skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, pwc, windsurfing, sailing....and hockey.

Family: Mom, Dad, Sister one year younger and a sister 4 years younger than me.

Clothing: Between what a typical jock would wear mixed with skateboarder /grunge style stuff.

How did you find this website? Relentless search to find more people with the same condition as me.

Job: 4 years now as a forklift operator in a frozen food processing plant.

Plans for the future? Moving to Alberta (western Canada) next year and getting a fresh start!