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What is your first name? J. (legally changed) Seems people have too rough a time with ‘Janette’ or even ‘Jay’ so I shortened it to a single letter.

Age: Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway.

Location: Whodathunk Alabama

Hobbies and Interests: Hobby: Fighting back with corporations who think I’m a roll-over for that last payment overbilling and stingy insurance settlement payouts. Hardware: Home improvement projects. Interests: Problem solving. Money.

Why are you here? Lifelong perplexity over people saying I’m weird without explaining how. Each time I discover something new I think ‘Eureka!’, but on further exploration, I find there still to be gaps. This time: Aspie? It fits, but Geeze, it sure makes me a mess to have so many things.
I AM weird!

When were you diagnosed? (skip if you don't have a disorder): Not yet. I think maybe this time I’ll go find out if there really is a solution. My daughter went through school as ‘special intelligence’, never found out what that meant either.

Favorite subjects: Psychology, sociology, anthropology, architecture, nature, science, physics (in ordinary things), money, computer problems. Debating in my head- sociology of religion through history, the role of off-worlders in religion and what is paranormal phenomena.


Year/Grade: School? Failed my way to 11th grade. Completely autodidactic.

Favorite music: Almost anything not played on commercial radio.

Books: I used to be a voracious reader. I hate being called a ‘know-it-all’. (Doesn’t seem to annoy them when they have a problem for me to solve though.) I quit reading; I need fewer brain cells to get by.

TV shows/Movies: Mostly Sci-fi and Discovery channel: Mythbusters! The rest of the time I just sit and let the ‘tube’ suck out the brain activity.

Instrument: none. I wish I could sing.

Do you like sports? I’m a hypocrite: Sports are stupid…..Except for sailing!

Family: Only one sister remains.

Clothing: Whatever the weather requires.

How did you find this website? Wikipedia. Finding that AS is so prevalent among asexuals, I looked it up.

Job: Jeweler- Intense focus on tiny differences? Check. Obsessive attention to detail? Check. Do not have to play office politics-I’m just a necessary evil and it’s ok – nearly all jewelers are weird.
I also get to play with FIRE!

Plans for the future? None, I’m done. Breathing and taking up space.

Any comments? I’m glad to have found you. I hope to find here some tiny degree of socializing that is entirely absent from my world.

Welcome to WP!

What is your first name? Tanya

Age: 23

Location: Sweden

Hobbies and Interests: japanese culture, reading, be creative, being outside, collect rocks.

Why are you here? I don't really know why.

When were you diagnosed? is still doing tests

Favorite subjects: swedish, french, spanish, english, history, art and biology... well I liked all lessons exept math.

Year/Grade: out of school

Favorite music: rock and metal

Books: I don't know, I love so many but Edgar Allan Poe, Banana Yoshimoto, Ellen Schreiber and Meg Cabot are some of my favourite authors.

TV shows/Movies: Many here too but I love horror movies and when it comes to shows the x-files, doctor who and ghost whisperer.

Instrument: drums, different kind of flutes and piano.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Love almost every outdoor sport but I'm not good at any plus I love martial art and have trained aikido.

Family: mum, dad, two older sisters, one older brother and a boyfriend.

Clothing: mostly dark decora

How did you find this website? google

Job: don't have one and have never had one.

Plans for the future? to start live and perhaps work as an artist and/or japanese translator

Any comments? Nah don't think so.

What is your first name? Rob

Age: 40

Location: Tampa Florida U.S.

Hobbies and Interests: Tinkering with machines, Science/Nature, Love/hate relationship with World of Warcraft, Kayaking, Sailing

Why are you here? I'm looking for people who can relate..

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Yesterday... after 30 years of clueless doctors, I find one who nails it in the first 5 mins..

Favorite subjects: Science, Engineering

Year/Grade: Fled school, GED in hand grade 10.. pursued by my former teachers bearing torches and pitchforks..

Favorite music: Wide variety including but not limited to: Alternative, Rock, Classical, Classic rock.. particular songs of note: Seether-Fake it, Modest Mouse- Departing of the sensory, Nine Inch Nails- Down in it, Styx- Mr. Roboto

Books: Good logical Sci-Fi: too many good ones to mention, and one absurdly illogical series: Douglas Adams- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

TV shows/Movies: Sci-Fi, Science/technology, documentaries, mythbusters

Instrument: My attempts at music were less than successful

Do you like sports? Not really

Family: Wife, 1 Daughter, 3 Sons, Mom, Brother(expired) Father(I don't get along with/talk to)

Clothing: When I have to go out: T-shirt, jeans..

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Unemployed for 4 years now.. before that everything from mucking tankers, production/warehouse to energy management systems

Plans for the future? I am still intensely focused/obsessed with my inventions, I hope to bring some to market or at least get some patent protection on some of them..
Any comments In the past 36 hours, I have learned how much I have overcome so far without knowing exactly what it was I was trying to overcome. Now that I am aware of the problem, I am quite confident that I can adapt.

Name: Michael

Age: 32

Location: Sydney, Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Tinkering, Hacking, Music, DJing

Why are you here? Like-minded people

When were you diagnosed? Formally, earlier this year

Favorite subjects: Philosophy, Linguistics, Logic, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Software, Music, Technics, Metaphysics, Religion, Botanical Medicine, Art, Printing, Psychology

Year/Grade: High School Dropout; Diploma in Programming

Favorite music: Good

Authors: Neal Stephenson, Clive Barker, William Gibson

Movies/TV shows: Fight Club, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Pulp Fiction, Office Space, Idiocracy, The Fifth Element, Blade Runner, LOST, Heroes

Instrument: F Horn, voice, bass guitar, turn tables, trumpet, keyboard

Do you like sports? S ones

Family: Separated, live with parents, have 2 children (4 nights and 2 days a fortnight)

Clothing: Jeans, T-shirt and jacket for work; trousers, fancy shirt and coat to go out; trippen boots

How did you find this website? Good question, probably Google

Job: Programmer

Plans for the future: To be the best man I can be

Any comments? This is a pretty cool website

Welcome to WP!

What is your first name? Not telling

Age: 44

Location: UK

Hobbies and Interests: reading, walking

Why are you here? curiosity

When were you diagnosed?: Self-diagnosed about a year ago. Everything makes sense now.

Favorite subjects: Art

Year/Grade: Left school under a cloud with minimal qualifications. Art school Diploma.

Favorite music: Rock, Indie

Books: Dances With Wolves, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (obviously)

TV shows/Movies: Dances With Wolves, Cool Hand Luke

Instrument: No musical ability whatsoever

Do you like sports? Motor racing, tennis

Family: Wife and kids

Clothing: Black

How did you find this website? via self-test and google

Job: Self-employed book dealer. Previously done everything from dogsbody to MD and back again

Plans for the future? Quiet life

Any comments? Not yet

Location: North-west England

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Sewing, Embroidery, Historical Re-enactment,

Why are you here? Trying to make a bit more sense of a lot of things that have just "clicked" into place over the past couple of years.

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

Favorite subjects: Art, History, Music

Year/Grade: N/A

Favorite music: Very varied - Rock, Metal, Classical, Folk, Jazz etc etc etc

Books: Anything and everything! Seriously!

TV shows/Movies: CSI (all three versions), Scrubs, Black Books. I don't tend to have the attention span for films - prefer fantasy, sci-fi or action as genres though.

Instrument: I currently play limited amounts of guitar. Have previously played flute, piano and had voice training (a long time ago!).

Do you like sports? Not so much if this means participating. To watch I like things like Hockey, Rugby, Athletics, Motorsports, Snowboarding.

Family: I've not spoken to my Parents or Brothers for a just over 5 years now, but I do have an awesome Fiance, Grandparents and Auntie and Uncle that more than make up for it

Clothing: Comfortable.

How did you find this website? Google.

Job: Legal Assistant

Plans for the future? Get enough time and money behind me to become a costume designer and get away from the office I currently work in. Travel a bit. Find somewhere I can settle.

Any comments? Not much...it's good to be here

Welcome to WP!

hi there tim tex...
another texan, i suppose?

What is your first name? Tracey

Age: 30

Location: Leeds, England

Hobbies and Interests: Reading (fiction), Environmental issues, World of Warcraft, Cats, LARP

Why are you here? My partner has recently been diagnosed (while being treated for depression)so I was looking to find further information, but since reading up on AS, I'm pretty sure I'm also on the spectrum so want to find out even MORE info

I've also gone "that explains a lot of HIS father's quirks too" - so looking up things that can help my partner understand the interactions between him and his dad too (a lot of the depression seems to stem from his undiagnosed AS and dyslexia as a child (and resulting bullying at school from pupils and teachers alike) and his father's undiagnosed AS which didn't make an ideal combination when neither of them understood why they didn't understand each other, when everything his father said was taken as law, even if it was a quote his father liked in a silly film or something - talk about confusion!)

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Self-diagnosed within last 2 years

Favorite subjects: Environment, Biology, Maths

Year/Grade: Completed A-Levels at school, now half-way through an Environmental Open University degree

Favorite music: Lots!

Books: Fantasy novels, light-sci-fi, criminology fiction

TV shows/Movies: Age of Stupid, Inconvenient Truth, Firefly, Buffy (tVS), Dollhouse, Friends, Star Trek

Instrument: Used to play Piano, guitar, clarinet (and recorder) and have singing lessons, but now I don't get to practice much...

Do you like sports? No! *shudder*

Family: Living with AS partner (together 6 years easter 2011) and our 4 adorable kitties. Have parents and a sister who live 100 miles "up north" near Newcastle and don't get to see them as often as I'd like

Clothing: Comfy, browns or blacks (occassionally purples) and "smart" for work, though I've got some nice t-shirt style tops so they're comfy rather than blouses and things. Lots of big comfy cardigans - my mam even found a "smart" one I can wear at work

How did you find this website? recommended on another website that was talking about AS - can't remember which one (was looking at a lot at the time)

Job: Admin at an Engineering Consultancy - my OCD tends to help with the filing - sometimes I think I'm the only person in the world who can enjoy being surrounded by bits of paper making sure they're all in order! Recently changed teams (still admin though) from Environmental Building Design to Transport due to my boss being a bully.

Plans for the future? Help my partner cope and deal with his depression to the point where he likes himself and realises he's as amazing as I know he is and hopefully live a long and happy life together in our amazing house with our amazing kitties (potentially children, but not to be discussed really until he's a lot more stable with his depression)...

Any comments? Just glad to finally be able to look at my quirks and foibles and realise that, even if they don't make sense to everyone else, they do make sense to a lot of people and more sense to me!

I'm seeing a lot of World of Warcraft and Star Trek coming in! I think I'm gonna feel right at home! It seems as right a planet as any. No My Little Pony though, but that's okay, more ponies for me! I love them as much as any planet's population anyway.

What is your first name? Carson.

Age: Sixteen.

Location: Tennessee.

Hobbies and Interests: I am a musician. I own a custom standup bass, a custom acoustic guitar, one full size modern cello, one 1938 3/4 cello, a Victorian era grand piano, an old Electric Jazz bass, and an electric hofner bass.

I participate in semi-underground combat simulations using non lethal firearms. It is similar to paintball but more of a realistic warfare experience.

Why are you here? Desperation.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): When I was twelve or so. I was unaware of my own diagnosis until fairly recently. My mother has funny sense of protection.

Favorite subjects: History. Philosophy.

Year/Grade: Sophmore.

Favorite music: Alternative Cello music. (Vitamin String Quartet, Apocolyptica, Zoe Keating, The Section Quartet, etc) Also stuff like Coldplay, Andrew Bird, etc. I also like heavier strange music like Gogol Bordello, Kaizers Orchestra, most Jack White material.

Books: Scifi, Post Apocalypse, Historical Fiction,

TV shows/Movies: Inception, Firefly, Fight Club, Dexter, Legend of 1900, LOST, etc

Instrument: Cello.

Do you like sports? Just milsim airsoft.

Family: NT Mother - very warm and understanding
NT Stepfather - Tries to understand ...but fails. Very stern.
NT(?) Father - Gets everything about me. Very close to me.
NT Brother - The loud obnoxious rockstar one ...we get along alright.


Clothing:
Very formal for my generation. Usually comfortable military pants with a nice black blazer and a tie ...

I always always always wear fingerless gloves. Not for style, but it helps me to keep from aggressively stimming in public ...

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

Job: None to speak of.

Plans for the future? -sigh-

Any comments? I'm not as unhappy as I seem.

-Crow

What is your first name? Alex

Age: 29

Location: Alberta

Hobbies and Interests: anime, gaming, pirates

Why are you here? Learned I had Asperger's

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Don't know, I only learned I'd been diagnosed a couple months ago. I haven't talked to my mother about it to learn when SHE found out. >.<

Favorite subjects: Whatever's interesting to me at the time.

Year/Grade: I'm well out school...

Favorite music: techno, dance... will listen to almost anything, but can't stand rap or hip hop or related.

Books: scifi, fantasy mostly, all kinds of things.

TV shows/Movies: One Piece, Chobits, Castle,

Instrument: umm... my mp3 player

Do you like sports? I've played a bit of Ulimate, but otherwise, not really, although I do cycle just about everywhere.

Family: mother, sisters... no so or kids

Clothing: jeans & t-shirts 90% of the time.. the rest, whatever I feel like. Sometimes a weird hat.

How did you find this website? wikipedia

Job: coffee & doughnut shop

Plans for the future? Get free of some current life-impeding issues that came up early this year. Beyond that, I never do stick to any idea for very long. Perhaps to find a plan and stick to it!

Any comments? 42

What is your first name? Prefer not to answer

Age: 15

Location: Canada

Hobbies and Interests: The band "Great Big Sea", public transit, personality types, taking tests

Why are you here? Because I have PDD-NOS

When were you diagnosed? At 5

Favorite subjects: You mean school subjects? English, Media Arts and Computer

Year/Grade: Grade 10

Favorite music: Great Big Sea, Moxy Fruvous, Mike Ford

Books: The Outsiders,Touching Spirt Bear, Many books that I probably haven't read

TV shows/Movies: Toy Story, The Outsiders, Monster's Inc,

Instrument: Guitar

Do you like sports? To watch? Yes. To play? No.

Family: Parents and Grandparent's, No Siblings

Clothing: Jeans and a T-Shirt

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Unemployed

Plans for the future? None yet..............