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Hello all.

Looking forward to checking out all of your blogs! What gems!

I JUST started mine, so I've posted only three entries. However, I have many in the works, which will be posted soon.

You'll find me here: The Misadventures of Aspie Girl

Thanks!

hi, I'm Eleanor, and I'm 13, turning 14 next june,

I hate the idea that all aspies are good at maths or very literal, with no creative side whatsoever, cause that's not true!

I am a very creative person, and I love drawing, writing, a lot of performing arts, like acting, speeches and music, but my all time favourite hobby is songwriting, i have written HEAPS of songs, and to think, that was inspired by a doco about my role model, Mika (you may have heard of him, he's a british muso)

I'm not stereotypical, I love trashy telly, especially Wife Swap, and i'm big into fashion!

see ya 'round (like a rissole)

hello! I am new here. I am basically here for my Asperger's syndrome situation. Though it's undiagnosed. However I have taken the Asperger's quotient test multiple times over a period of an year to get a average result with minimized randomness. And that score has been 40. Plus, I read about the nature and experiences of people who have been diagnosed with this condition and have found them to be exactly similar to mine all through my life.

My MBTI is INTP. I hope I will get to meet some people like me over here because it seems that doing just that is nearly impossible in day-to-day life.

It will not let me share the link to my website and blog right now since I am a new user. I'll do that sometime later.



Happy new year to everyone.

I've only just started my blog, but there's heaps more where that came from!

Please check it out:

This is my 8th post and 13th day of membership so here goes with attaching my blog. Hope that it works.

My name is Alison and I live on the dark side of the wrong planet, in Ireland, where Asperger's is hardly known of in a couple relationship. I am NT-ish and hubby is AS. We are lonely as there aren't any other couples in an AS relationship, that we know of here.

This post is a message in a bottle, an s.o.s. to connect with us, if you are a couple, about to embark on coupledom or have experienced being in a relationship please respond and save our souls.

Check out ASPBRIGGA

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My web link ain't there, aaaargh! So hoping it appears this time. If not ....check it out the old fashioned way, by pasting the link below into your browser.

aspbriggairl.com

http://www.aspbriggairl.com

Hi Colin,
Check out

http://www.aspbriggairl.com

We live in North County Dublin, Ireland and have just started a new website for asperger couples and those who want to discuss asperger relationships. You are welcome to join up as there are some useful links on the site etc for resources.

Great, the two of you are wonderful parents to your gifted son.

My blog:

http://aussieaspiewoman.blogspot.com/

and Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/help/?question= ... 27048&ap=1


(just realised the link didn't appear in my last post)

Hi, I don't have a blog, so I'll just introduce myself here. I have a son diagnosed with aspergers, which was my introduction to understanding MY FAMILY. Suddenly, all those years of standing outside the car waiting for my mom to get the coat hanger because she had locked us out - again - started to make sense. Those years of silence and not knowing how to have a conversation - my mom standing at the kitchen window and spacing out for what seemed hours . . . My grandpa always tinkering and talking for hours (in a monologue) about electronics, Indian massacres, and movies to his 8 year old granddaughter. Absentmindedness and disorganization that run so strong in my family that we call it the "Smith gene", and all laugh when we get together. My own obsession with books (hyperlexia) and academic perfection - but always feeling somehow not getting the social things. Intense loneliness and desire to crack the dating code. Weird "phases/rules", such as refusing to say "gesundheit" or "bless you" when people sneezed; hating small talk; elaborately pretending to wash my hands when I was growing up, instead of just taking less time and trouble and just washing the darn things; not asking people how their relatives were because I didn't really know them, and didn't want to pretend to care about them if I didn't know them; and, a, in hindsight, particularly painful phase where I didn't want to say thank you because it seemed so cursory.

Who I am now is way better than who I was in my teens and 20's. Reading Rousseau's "Social Contract" in college suddenly helped me to understand society and its interactions as a system, and started me on my road to a better approach to interacting with others. I even enjoy it now. It's been painful sometimes, but I have been successful both academically and in my career. By the time I had reached my 30's, I had developed a knack for noticing things among people in the office that NT's missed (this is because I tried/try so hard to understand people and watch them very closely - in a hopefully noncreepy way). Combining this knack for noticing what's going on with people, my obsession with developing technical expertise, actually enjoying memorizing boring and arcane regs/text, wanting to do the right and honest thing, and not getting emotionally caught up in situations, I actually ended up moving into management and doing very well at it. One of my employees told me that she had me pegged for aspie for years, and felt like it has helped me do what I do. She is one of my most loyal advocates, which I think is absolutely necessary for aspie success.

I have a lot more love and compassion for my mom and grandpa now, and a fierce protection and love for my son. I accept the Smith family strengths along with its weaknesses. Many of us are creative, imaginative, able to hyperfocus, and score high on intelligence tests. I am so grateful to sites like this, and people like you, to give hope, perspective, and a sense of belonging to people like my son. I wish that I had had a community like this to go to when I was growing up . . .

As I am female, and I suspect myself of being hyperlexic aspie, I am interested in hearing from other aspie females - especially moms. There are not many books, nor much research material, on the female aspie experience. Because of this, I have this longer term research idea in mind, and would like to hear (I guess in this case, read) others' thoughts/insights.

Take care,
Colleen

Hi Colleen,
Nice to hear some things about your life and I am glad that you have a place to share your thoughts. I am married to a guy with AS and like your experience of being a mom to a child with AS, I have found that there isn't much research or resources in the area for couples, especially in Ireland where we reside. So I am also considering looking into this for research purposes.
I work with special needs adults but none of them are AS so my introduction to AS was via marriage two and a half yrs ago.
I am NT. Having said that my own child hood was extremely lonely as I had no ability to form friendships with other children. I just couldn't figure out what to do. On top of that I was clumsy and stood out in my appearance, so I could never approach friendships. My mother had very poor communication skills/emotional interaction and my father was remote, dying fairly young. In all, I was neglected emotionally so could not interact well with others.
Like you, even today, I have a poor tolerance for small talk and belonging to groups. I immersed myself in art growing up and nothing much else. I didn't really start to develop a better emotional life until my mid twenties. There were plenty of mistakes and misunderstandings because I had little empathy for others or self awareness at times.
Even today, I have the ability to focus for hours on one thing of interest. So you see, I share some similar aspie like traits and experience, but with a different cause I imagine.
If you are intrested to chat about research into AS for couples I would like to hear from you.
Take care,
Ali.

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I just started a Blog at Wordpress.com. I'll be blogging about the tools, ideas, practices, and services we on the spectrum can use to better our lives.
The link is the third line in my signature.

Hi!! ! I'm new here!! ! My name is Chris Burgess, and I'm an aspie!! !!

I have a WP blog as well... Check my signature. I log my daily life events there.

To WrongPlanet!! !