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^Nice to meet you, Chris.

What is your first name? Emily

Age: 14

Location: Maryland, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Music and the internet. >> And anime/manga

Why are you here? I want to be 'cus it's a cool place to be.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): age 14, 2008

Favorite subjects: English, chorus, foreign language...

Year/Grade: 9th grade (high school freshman wewt)

Favorite music: heavy metal

Books: Fiction, mostly fantasy

TV shows/Movies: Sweeney Todd

Instrument: Electric bass

Do you like sports? No

Family: Extended or immediate? the extended one is huge...immediate is mum, dad, brother, me.

Clothing: I don't give a crap. Jeans and tee.

How did you find this website? My psychiatrist showed me.

Job: None

Plans for the future? Become a web designer, support my parents when they retire.

Any comments? Your face. xD

I dont know whether I already responded to this.

What is your first name? Lindsey

Age: 19

Location:Honolulu, right now but Im going back to LA for college very soon

Hobbies and Interests:Swimming, crafts, cooking, reading random stuff, listening to music, talking on the phone(does that count as a hobby)

Why are you here? Im aspie and I wanted to find out more information as well as relate to other aspies

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Year and half ago, I was 18

Favorite subjects: Science

Year/Grade:Sophmore in college

Favorite music: anything from pop/rock to hard rock

Instrument: Used to play the piano and guitar, but sucked at it

Do you like sports? Mostly no but I used to swim competitivly back in highschool

Family:1 brother, 1 sister, and 2 parents

Clothing: comfortable clothing with an edge

How did you find this website? Through an article about an aspie who killed himself who was supposidly posting death threat messanges on wrong planet. Went to check it out and I like here. I was originally looking for aspie messageboards during a time of despair.

Job:I work on and off a small part time job at Sylvan

Plans for the future? Finish college, graduate with a Bio degree, otherwise I dont know yet.

What is your first name? It's a secret.

Age: 25

Location: USA

Hobbies and Interests: travel, animals, the ocean, mythology, forensics, medical curiosities, archeology, video games, cute things

Why are you here? I was bored and curious about other people with AS.

When were you diagnosed? around a year ago I think. I don't keep up with dates and time very well.

Favorite subjects: science and art

Year/Grade: I haven't started college.

Favorite music: metal and rock

Instrument: no, but I'd like to learn

Do you like sports? not at all

Family: I live with my mom, two sisters, nephew, and five cats.

Clothing: shirt and jeans

How did you find this website? I don't remember. I was a lurker for a long time before I joined.

Job: I'd like to go to college or tech school first.

Plans for the future? I dunno...

What is your first name? terri

Age: 38

Location: kalamazoo, michigan

Hobbies and Interests:

writing a sci-fi/sci-fantasy book. reading-a lot. lots of sci-fi, thrillers, non-fiction on philosophy & physics...but really i'm omnivorous. internet junkie. have a cat, kaya skye, who i've "enrolled" in two social networking sites. she has many more friends than i do on facebook, myspace, tagged, Hi5, MyYearbook & Care2 combined. this might be because my brother cajoled me into those sites, while catster & pikapet were my choices. either that or kaya has better social skills. astronomy-if i could figure out how to get my telescope to work. mythology, all sorts. religion-all sorts, which encompasses mythology. theoretical physics, especially chaos theory. fascinated by heisenberg's observer effect. i sketch/draw, but not particularly well. take lots of pictures. philosophy, history, all sciences, psychology, anthropology-basically i'm a knowledge geek & trivia junkie, though i don't collect facts indiscriminately or even deliberately. i just surf the net and follow link to link, then do a search on something tangentially related, then go link to link...cyber breadcrumbs. this could go on forever...

Why are you here?
"little lamb who made thee, dost thou know who made thee?"
oops, you're referring to this SITE...my bad. an attempt to bring my parameters into a sharper focus through compare & contrast. also to get advice & feedback on specific situations & issues.

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

which diagnosis? the answer to this is nebulous. since i have vivid memories of my mother screaming: "you're not autistic!" at me whenever i would rock or not have "enough" expression on my face, or stare at dust motes in a shaft of sunlight, or try to use her hand as my own, or not speak, or get reports sent back from school that i never smiled...i feel safe in inferring that the diagnosis was at least proposed from a very early date. those screams are among my earliest memories. i think someone proposed "holding therapy" to her when i was about eleven...i eventually went limp, but after that became violent whenever she attempted to touch me. i think that was an entirely rational response on my part, honestly. she eventually modulated her approach to "you're too smart to be autistic", when i knocked the roof off the IQ test and got into gifted. they wanted to take me to the county to try a different test, but my original tester (a man i remember with fondness, even though i only knew him a few hours) nixed that idea. in the notes i later read he stated that: "we know as much as we need to know in order to provide appropriate services which are acceptable to the parents. while the subject performed exceptionally well, she was obviously ill-at-ease and exhibited stress-response tics and tended to withdraw. futher testing would in my view be counter-productive and redundant in light of previously noted resistance on the part of the parents." my mother seemed to decide that my 160+ (gee aren't i special? and here i am unemployed, living on disability...) IQ was the explanation for my eccentricities...upside to this is she discontinued the narcotic dosage my pediatrician had put me on at four months of age. why a narcotic? i have no clue, except that it apparently began as a measure to let my parents sleep through the night, and was continued at my mother's insistence.
at fourteen i was diagnosed with depression and OCD. at eighteen i was diagnosed with bipolar & PTSD. in my early twenties i heard the term "asperger's" applied to me for the first time-1992, this was. the psychiatrist said it was almost impossible to definitely diagnose with no documented history of childhood autism, though in his opinion it fit. on the official record he put "schizotypal personality disorder", because it was more acceptable at that point. (shrug) he said (and told my parents, who showed up at the hospital uninvited): "terri is not like other people. she will never be like other people. this is just something which is true." mother said he was condemning me to a life without hope. he said that all depended on what i was hoping for. she proceeded to reel off a list of hopes & dreams...he interrupted and said he was interested in my hopes, not hers.
asperger's was again brought up in the mid-nineties, and more or less confirmed...as confirmed as it gets, as i was told. is this typical or am i just confusing?


Favorite subjects: i think i covered this in hobbies & interests...common thread is finding the common threads between them and weaving them into a tapestry of ever-shifting meaning...

Year/Grade: umm...i attended college sporadically for six years, never graduated.

Favorite music: alternative & classical for the most part...though i'm pretty eclectic, and like women artists...of course, that's lately.

Books: umm...anything, almost. currently reading cosmos & psyche by richard tarnes. fascinating book concerning the evolution of human thought. evolution in general as a multi-purpose window interests me...evolutionary psychology, biology, morality...i've read a lot of dawkins. lots of sci/fi and thrillers for my comfort food.

TV shows/Movies: highlander, painkiller jane, house m.d., monk, x-files, law & order (sometimes), csi (at times), history channel (at times), start trek universe (at times) i shift between obsessions.

loved dogma, seven, the pan labyrinth, the gift, brazil...others, but not coming to mind. for a time in college i was weirdly obsessed with "who framed roger rabbit?" kept sneaking into the theater and watching it over & over...


Instrument: i make noises on the harmonica.

Do you like sports? sometimes baseball.

Family: my nuclear family is all i have contact with because my mother boycotted the rest of her side of the family shortly after her parents died shortly before i turned five. i was told as an adult that people were afraid of her, so backed off...as this left two small children in the care of a woman adults feared and a man none of them trusted, i don't consider them family. i speak to my mother mainly because if i don't she harasses me. i speak to my father on his birthday, father's day, and if he answers the phone we make awkward conversation until he tracks mother down in the house. my brother though-we are very close, and much alike. we "speak" almost daily via IM. he is quite probably the only person whose death would matter to me...does that make me cold & evil? i don't need his constant presence...the knowledge that he exists and actually seeks out contact with me is an overflowing bounty.

Clothing: yes, i'm wearing some. i have a couple of "outfits", the rest is jeans, sweats, shorts & t-shirts. i'm aware that i should do something about that...but can't seem to care.

How did you find this website? was fiddling around on the web trying to see if i could "consolidate" some of my diagnosis (am i ocd or is that part of the asperger's? am i bipolar or...etc.) and ran across a link.

Job: currently unemployed and living on disability. was a cook for several years, searching for a job but it's difficult to even leave the house sometimes. eight-year gap in my work history is going to make this an uphill battle.

Plans for the future? get a job. hook up with voc rehab to train for a better job. save money & move closer to my brother in montana-i've always been attracted to the pacific northwest, maybe washington state. this would also put me even further from my parents in alabama. my brother and i both wound up in states bordering canada...he jokes that it's like we decided to flee to canada but stopped just short of the border. i'd like to finish the first of my planned trilogy by the time i'm 40, even if it's not in a form to be submitted. i would love to have enough money & other resources to run an animal sanctuary or no-kill rescue center. if i ever figure out what i want/need a degree for, i'd like to go back to school.

Any comments?
i know that "a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" but i'm ridiculous. i have somehow got to get myself going, but seem to be stalled. fear, inertia, disorganization, being chronically overwhelmed...will i ever, ever have a life? (not like any of you can answer that...i'm just feeling a touch on the desperate side just now...)

What is your first name? I go by Amicitia or Ami.

Age: 23

Location: New Jersey, USA

Hobbies and Interests: I read everything I can find. I sometimes write short stories and when I have too much free time I do cross-stitch projects.

Why are you here? I'm Aspie and frustrated.

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

Favorite subjects: I studied psychology and philosophy.

Year/Grade: Graduated!

Favorite music: I find myself increasingly listening to country music.

Books: I enjoy fantasy. I also seem to read a lot of books about mental illness, vaguely dystopian societies, and Napoleon being defeated by magic.

TV shows/Movies: I love Monk and Amazing Race.

Instrument: I used to play trumpet and french horn.

Do you like sports? Not very much.

Family: Until further notice, I live with my parents. My older brother has the same deal. My younger sister lives here too, when she isn't at college.

Clothing: More functional than decorative.

How did you find this website? Ultimately from a book.

Job: Make me an offer.

Plans for the future? Find a job. Maybe go back to school. Have an apartment in which I store geeky accessories and indulge in nerdy vices.

What is your first name? Steve

Age:23

Location: Hancock, Michigan, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Politics, Card games, Writing, Astronomy.

Why are you here? I have Asperger's Syndrome and I was looking to learn about other people in my position and how they handled it.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): in 8th grade (2000)

Favorite subjects: History, Political Science

Year/Grade: Senior in College (Graduate with a BA in December of 2008)

Favorite music: I like all kinds

Books: Huckleberry Finn

TV shows/Movies: Dirty Jobs, Match Game '76

Instrument: Piano, but Im not any good at it

Do you like sports? Some of them

Family: ??? I love my family very much. They are the most influencial, and important people in my life.

Clothing: Yes? -- Blue jeans and t-shirt

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Demonstrator

Plans for the future? Law school

Any comments? Yeah, a couple.

The community here seems really nice. Everyone here seems to be more then willing to share with others, and more then willing to accept others as they are. It's refreshing to see.

What is your first name? Dave

Age: 56 solar years as measured by the growth rings on my bones & teeth

Location: South Texas near South Padre Island

Hobbies and Interests: Many and varied = learning Science and some Humanities (but not fine arts), relationships/gender understanding, walking, playing some video games, military history, travel, religions (no proselytizing please), astronomy, quantum theory (just trying to understand the basics) and some charities (Save the Children, Somaly Mam Foundation), oh and of course Sex.

Why are you here? Uh, I feel like probably I belong here but I am not 100% sure or maybe I just don't want to accept it.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I've not been diagnosed YET and am wondering if I should be. It sounds expensive ($2000) and I don't know if my insurance will pay for this. Do you get some kind of disability perk if you do? A parking sticker maybe?

Favorite subjects: See above but also computers and archeology too but NO SPORTS

Year/Grade: Well I feel like I am still 25 so the year must be 1977 and my grade is still probably the bewilderment I felt in Middle and High school so probably 10th grade. I still go to school for the fun of learning when I'm not teaching at the local university.

Favorite music: All kinds, really, except really loud suicide/punk/heavy metal (can't understand the words - prefer rhymes anyway). I also listen to Yodeling, Kaliope, Gregorian chants, Gansta Rap, Banda, etc. It's all rock 'n roll to me.

Books: I used to read a lot of books, especially self-help ones but now I mostly read magazines like Discover, Armchair General, Reader's Digest, National Geographic etc.

TV shows/Movies: Nova, Lexx (4 pilot movies not the series), Riddick, Elani, Shreck, Starman, Robot Chicken, Das Boot, When Harry met Sally, MST 3000

Instrument: Failed at piano and baritone horn and got discouraged. My favorite instrument is my Radar Detector

Do you like sports? No, I hate sports. And I don't understand them because they keep playing the same teams and games over and over year after year with no one finally winning for good. The ONLY sport I ever liked watching was Roller Ball.

Family: Yes; Long suffering wife of 34 years who's mantra is "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?", 3 grown (in the legal sense only) children; 2 biological and 1 adopted (the control) and now 2 grandchildren who are most likely Aspies in Darwin Australia.

Clothing: I'm not into clothes except for the utility or legality aspects but I prefer uniforms if I have to wear something.

How did you find this website? My wife and children told me about it and said I should go there.

Job: Retired (as an O-6) from the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service in 2002 and am currently teaching Community-Based Nursing at University of Texas in Brownsville.

Plans for the future? Live long and prosper until I get feeble and then I want the millionaire's death.

Any comments? I'm kind of scared of everyone everyone even though I've looked around the site for a while.