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What is your first name? Kyle

Age: 18

Location: Missouri

Hobbies and Interests: Warhammer 40k video games

Why are you here? AS

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

Favorite subjects: Strategy and Philosphy

Year/Grade: Soon to be Freshman in College

Favorite music: Alternative

Books: cant stand reading

TV shows/Movies: History Channel and G4

Instrument: Violin soon

Do you like sports? no

Family: yes

Clothing: simple usually black shirt and jeans

How did you find this website? Youtube

Job: no please

Plans for the future? Violin and Accordion

Any comments? no

What is your first name?: Rachel

Age: 16

Location: England

Hobbies and Interests: Music, writing, reading, fantasy

Why are you here?: To feel included in something/ to not feel as excluded.

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

Favorite subjects: English Language, English Literature, Art.

Year/Grade: Just left Year Eleven.

Favorite music: Rock, punk, metal, alternative, some other random if it means something.

Books: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Crime/Thriller... my favourites are Brighton Rock, The Ironside Trilogy, Harry Potter, Dexter, anything by Dean Koontz, manga....

TV shows/Movies: Star Trek, Harry Potter, LOTR, Heroes, Dexter, Smallville, Batman, Hannibal, The Omen, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Star Wars, Starsky and Hutch, Spiderman Superman, X-men... (and all things similar)

Instrument: A little keyboard, I wanted to learn guitar but gave up after getting too bored.

Do you like sports?: Absolutely not.

Family: Mum, Dad, brother... I don't really understand this question,

Clothing: Alternative; black.

How did you find this website?: Google, liked the name.

Job: No. I should probably get one, but they all involve people.

Plans for the future?: Writing.

Any comments?: No.

What is your first name? Dennis

Age: 33

Location: South East coast, Sweden

Hobbies and Interests: photos, tattoos & games.

Why are you here? To seek others like me.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2009-May-25

Favorite subjects: Language & Social Science.

Year/Grade: Out of school.

Favorite music: Blue October, Eminem, Nina Ramsby, Winnerbäck, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Bad Religion, Apocalyptica, Sabaton & more.

Authors: Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Darwin, Wagner, Voltaire, Kant, Heidegger, Freud, Jung, Strindberg, Kafka & more.

TV shows/Movies: Fried Green Tomatoes, Fifth Element, Memento, Persona, Fanny & Alexander, Fargo, The Terminal, Mojave Phone Booth, The Big Lebowski, The Party (1968) & many more.

Instrument: trombone

Do you like sports? To watch; NBA, Golf and Paris-Dakar. Participate; running (indoors), weight-lifting.

Family: Brothers.

Clothing: Black.

How did you find this website? Looked for it course Facebook is for NT's.

Job: RN, but on sick leave going on 47 weeks now...

Plans for the future? Ride with the Transiberian express to Pyongyang in North Korea.

Any comments? I like this site so far...

No one has ever wanted to know so much about me, but since I am procrastinating about writing a report….

What is your first name? Janet (from another planet)

Age: 55

Location: Phoenix

Hobbies and Interests: reading, reading, reading, my dogs, yoga, vegan cooking, learning Spanish

Why are you here? Looking for some company

When were you diagnosed? (skip if you don't have a disorder): I was kicked out of church as a preschooler, did poorly all through public school, but my DX wasn’t available in DSM until I was 41 so I flunked grades and was considered a trouble-maker. When I was about 45, I was working for a man with full-blown kanners who insisted that I had autism. We spent 40 hours a week for two years together so he knew me better than anyone else. After looking into it, I have to admit he had a point. I just don’t see why I should shell out hundreds of dollars for someone with letters after their name to tell me what I already know and wouldn’t help me if I label it.

Favorite subjects: biology, exercise physiology, nutrition, autism

Year/Grade: MS

Favorite music: most genres, except musak – however my heart music is the 60s when I was a teen

Books: SciFi, Fantasy, & history. I used to read a lot in the area of my profession, but it is telling that I don’t any more

TV shows/Movies: No TV, but love movies: most genres, but romantic movies are at the bottom and smart thrillers at the top. A good comedy is hard to find, but the laughter is worth a thousand doctors

Instrument: no talent at all (I was the only child out of >60 to be rejected for the 3rd grade choir) but I love to sing – they couldn’t stamp it out of me!! Tra-la-la!! !

Do you like sports? When I play…I am the worst spectator

Family: 5 kids ages 30 – 15 years, three dogs, one sister & one brother, both parents & a sister deceased

Clothing: Yeah, but how would you know? No, I am NOT a fashion diva…

How did you find this website? I was trying to google an acquaintance who had presented at an autism workshop and found this site instead

Job: Speech Language Pathologist (on the spectrum) – what a hoot!

Plans? Plan A = winning Powerball jackpot, Plan B = winning the state lottery jackpot, Plan C = run the rat race for the next 20 years

Any comments? Wrong planet seems like a nice place, but some very bright people hang out here. I am pretty ordinary, but like to chat a bit

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Hi Michael,
I was just reading about the transcontenental trains in australia - have you ridden them??? They looked wonderful!



(we are about the same age) Work is getting harder and harder for me. I get too tired dealing with so many different people in a day, but I have to earn a living. My job is all there is between my family and a homeless shelter. In the US aspergers doesn't get any benefits.

Welcome to WP, all new members!

     Hi, Janet.
     Responses to a few points you made:

     I suppose there are two you are referring to: The Indian Pacific, which runs east-west between Sydney and Perth, and The Ghan, which runs north-south between Adelaide and Darwin. There are various shorter-distance trains too.
     I went from Sydney to Perth on the Indian Pacific in 1971, although in those days the train was somewhat different from what it is now. I think most of the carriages in use today are those that were in use then, and they look similar externally, but they have been extensively refurbished more recently, so that the train has more the appearance of an expensive hotel, whereas in the days I went on it, it looked just like a train - a nice one no doubt, but still a train.
     I haven't been on the Indian Pacific since the refurbishment, and am not especially interested in doing so. I think part of the appeal to me was precisely in the fact that everything looked like a train, was characteristic of a train. Travelling on the Indian Pacific is extremely expensive now, especially if you want the higher class of sleeping berth (necessary if as a lone person you don't want to share a compartment with a stranger), and I don't expect ever to do this. My interest is considerably less if the train is done up in a way so as to make it look as unlike a train as possible.
     I went by train from Adelaide to Alice Springs in central Australia on the Ghan in 1980, but the Ghan in those days was a completely different train from what it is now, using considerably older carriages, it went only to Alice Springs; also, you had to change trains at Port Augusta and Marree because of changes in railway gauge.
     To my mind, both trains, while no doubt very swanky, are just too touristy for my liking, based on what I've read about them. You can read more about these here:

  http://www.gsr.com.au
  http://www.gsr.com.au/our-trains/the-ghan/the-journey.php
  http://www.gsr.com.au/our-trains/indian-pacific/the-journey.php

     I have not been on any long-distance train since 1980, and my whole interest in trains has faded almost completely, even though it was intense, even obsessive, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is partly because of circumstances and changing factors in my life, and partly because Australian trains have changed in various ways that I just don't like much.
     I even joined the RailPage forum a few years ago, thinking I might re-awaken my old nostalgia for trains; but I posted half a dozen messages, then faded away. I've gone back every 6 months or so and read a few things there, but so far haven't felt moved to post messages there again. I also felt I didn't fit in very well with the culture (as I perceived it) on that forum, and that doesn't help you to post more often.

     Sorry to hear that you are compelled by financial need to work in a job you must find a constant strain. I gather sickness benefits or pensions in the U.S. are far less generous than those in Australia. America may be a great place to live if you can fit in with the capitalist culture and are bright and clever and conform to social norms - but I suspect it would be a horrendous place for those with disabilities, or just those who are eccentric or don't conform to the norms.
     As for myself, I do receive a pension because of my mental health problems, and I am probably quite literally unemployable - but I am mindful that, without this assistance (plus a relatively modest independent income from an inheritance 10 or so years ago), I would probably be on the streets or in an institution of some sort, wishing I was dead.
     But my comments about dreading the future weren't so much about financial survival, but more about deteriorating mental state and increasing loneliness as the few people I am close to die one by one (most of them are older than me, and I really haven't made close relationships to anyone in the generation younger than me, and often feel I can't relate to them at all). I am probably closer to my mother than most 55-year-olds would be, and I think in particular it's going to hit me extremely hard when she dies (she is 80 now, and still quite youthful in some ways - but she obviously can't live for ever).
     I am not married and am probably incapable of falling in love with a woman, and I expect a very desperately lonely old age, with worsening depression and a sense of the pointlessness of life, and I frankly dread it. One good thing is that I don't have the responsibility of looking after children, when I cannot even manage my own life, let alone bring up other young lives.
     My condition has been a curse since about the age of 2, so I tend to strongly disagree with the politically-correct view that disorders such as many of us here have are not really a disability, a life-sentence, etc., but merely a different personality type, or even a special ability. I just can't see any sense in this - which is why I started the thread "Is Asperger's syndrome / autism a disability?" - just to see what people on the other side of this thought.

     Anyway, maybe it's not the right place here to go into too much detail about matters of this sort.

Regards, Michael.

I am sorry that the train has gone this way. It is like in The accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler) about a travel writer for people who hate to travel and want everything to be as American as possible in their travels. I used to live on a small sailboat and really liked the convenience of traveling without packing/unpacking. The train may still hold that allure, but I cannot afford a high priced hotel.



Maybe because I have such a hard time working with others (due to my quirks, not theirs) and I have raised a passel of kids, being alone (I have been single for about 12 years) holds great appeal to me. Running the rat race ad nauseum as proscribed by capitalistic America is what gives me a black outlook. I love all the families I work with, but to see six or so a day, five days a week, is very exhausting. Being able to follow my own interests most days instead of other people’s would be lovely – but probably the grass just looks greener on your side.



Maybe your thread would be a better place to respond, so I will go there.

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What is your first name? T-----

Age: 19

Location: Jersey

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, writing, music, cooking, baking, bubble tea, etc.

Why are you here? suspicions.

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

Favorite subjects: Theatre, Music (especially chorus), and English.

Year/Grade: Will be a Junior in college.

Favorite music: Rock, Pop, Folk, Showtunes.

Books: Just started "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Also a fan of the Harry Potter and Series of Unfortunate Events series, The Alchemist, and The Great Gatsby.

TV shows/Movies: shows-Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Extras, Flight of the Conchords, Desperate Housewives, Queer as Folk, Beautiful People, Skins, True Blood...Movies-There will be Blood, Ratatouille, A Room with a View, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, I like the first two as well.

Instrument: Violin and viola (very much out of practice, though), a little guitar, piano, vocal instrument =)

Do you like sports? not really. If I had to sit through a game though, I'd pick soccer/football/futbol.

Family: Yes. No siblings at the moment. Very boring.

Clothing: varies. I like to dress up in skirts and stuff, but then I get lazy. I also have some band shirts from concerts and free t shirts from school and other places and stuff that I borrow from my mom. I have too many shoes.

How did you find this website? google.

Job: Not a steady one.

Plans for the future? London.

Any comments? Nope.

Welcome to WP!

I usually prefer hammers but okay...



What is your first name?
Emmett

Age:
Old enough to not be in school, but young enough to still be in college without anyone looking at me weird

Location:
The birthplace of Ozzy Osbourne

Hobbies and Interests:
(see my introduction page)

Why are you here?
My Mum and Dad love each other very much (if you get what I mean)

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
Early 90s (can't remember exact year)

Favorite subjects (when I was in school):
Computer Science, Physics, English, History, Electronics, Theology

Year/Grade:
n/a

Favorite music:
Rock, Jazz, Ska, Funk, Electro, Techno, Older Hip Hop

Favourite Fictional Books:
-Shogun
-Paradise Lost
-Lord of the Flies
-Silmarillion
-Riftwar Saga (Raymon Feist)
-Snow Crash
- Most stuff by William Gibson
-Second Variety (Philip K Dick)
-We can remember it for you wholesale! (Philip K Dick)
-Titus Groan
-Etc

TV shows:
-Battlestar Galactica (both eras)
-Stargate (all except the cartoon)
-Red Dwarf
- V: the series
-TopGear
-Gormenghast
-The Smoking Room
-The Fast Show

Movies:
Too many to count( I class myself as a bit of a cult movie buff)

Instrument:
Guitar
Keyboard
Theremin

Do you like sports?
Some (Football, Ice Hockey & Cricket mainly)

Clothing:

How did you find this website?
Search Engine

Job:
Student/ Part time Programmer

Plans for the future?
Full time System engineer for a large software company/ start my own

Welcome to WP!

tah much

Hello.

What is your first name?
Hannah.
Age:
19.
Location:
Between Devon and Lancaster in the UK.
Hobbies and Interests:
Painting, Star Wars, Linguistics.
Why are you here?
I thought it would be an interesting experience.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
This year.
Favourite subjects:
Linguistics, grammar, history of modern English.
Year/Grade:
University 2nd year.
Favourite music:
Muse.
Books:
Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, David Crystal grammars, art books.
TV shows/Movies:
Buffy, Angel, Star Wars, Star Trek.
Instrument:
Piano, guitar.
Do you like sports?
No.
How did you find this website?
Google.
Job:
Student and painter for commission.
Plans for the future?
I don't know yet.

What is your first name?
Eric

Age:
21, with exactly a month until 22

Location:
Twin Cities, MN

Hobbies and Interests:
Video games, Star Wars, thinking about things, thinking about other things, reading, more video games, hanging out with friends, learning interesting things, and so on

Why are you here?
Let's not get into any existential discussions just yet.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
Very recently, about a month or two. Asperger's.

Favorite subjects (when I was in school):
Psychology, German, English, Physics, Sociology, Political Science

Year/Grade:
That's a bit of a rough subject.

Favorite music:
Very difficult to generalize.

Favourite Fictional Books:
Star Wars (Rogue Squadron series especially)
LOTR
Harry Potter
Iliad/Odyssey
Hitchhiker's Guide
Count of Monte Cristo
Three Musketeers
Golden Compass series
(that's just a sampling)

TV shows:
The Office (US and UK)
30 Rock
South Park
Robot Chicken
Family Guy
Jeopardy!
Ninja Warrior

Movies:
Star Wars (sensing a trend yet?)
Iron Man
Spider-man
Batman Begins/Dark Knight
Transformers
Gladiator
Forrest Gump
Gran Torino
I could keep going, but I don't think I will

Instrument:
Have played violin, piano, guitar, alto sax, guitar again, drums, and bass guitar. Didn't stick with any of em.

Do you like sports?
Watching, not really. Playing, sort of. Big fan of frisbee and golf.

Clothing:
Usually, yeah.

How did you find this website?
Recommended by my psychologist

Job:
Student

Plans for the future?
Working on architectural drafting and design degree

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