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What is your first name?
A secret. ^^,

Location:
Norway

Hobbies and Interests:
Computer, school, books

Why are you here?
Asperger's

Favorite subjects:
Biology, Informatics

Year/Grade:
Uni

Favorite music:
Beatles, Lennon, Buddy Holly

Books:
Fantasy and sci fi, medicine, religion

TV shows/Movies:
Criminal Minds, The Big Bang Theory, Harry Potter, Transformers, Star Wars (the old ones)

Do you like sports?
No o_O

Family:
Many siblings + one grandmother

How did you find this website?
Google

Plans for the future?
Programmer

Any comments?
No ^^,

What is your first name? Steve
Age: 51
Location: Sydney
Hobbies and Interests: Music, Sciences
Why are you here? Mutual support
When were you diagnosed? Self test result, very likely Aspie (about 3 years ago)
Favorite subjects: Sciences
Favorite music: Hawkwind, Dead can Dance
Books: Origin of Species
TV shows/Movies: Big Bang Theory
Instrument: percussion (in band), creating music on computer
Do you like sports? Not generally. Was competitive in weightlifting, enjoy Kung Fu
Family: Married, 2 grown up daughters
Clothing: A bit goth when possible
How did you find this website? Looking into Aspie culture
Job: IT Engineer
Plans for the future? Retire to do more writing & music
Any comments? Just wrote a book on Asperger traits in technical workers.

Welcome to WP!

What is your first name? shayna

Age: 22

Location: USA

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Writing, Harry Potter, Vampire Academy, surfing the net for random info,

Why are you here? I definitely have characteristics of Asperger's, and it's nice to know I'm not the only one...

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): i haven't officially yet starting the process soon

Favorite subjects: psychology and creative writing

Year/Grade: College drop out after first year.

Favorite music: Wizard Rock, some pop

Books: Depends when you ask. Currently Vampire Academy series, Harry Potter series, My Sister's Keeper, Elsewhere....

TV shows/Movies: Don't watch TV. Harry Potter movies

Instrument: does a pen/pencil/computer count?

Do you like sports? not particularly... I enjoy wii frisbee golf

Family: Just me and my husband. maiden family was mom dad and a younger sis.

Clothing: Jeans and t-shirt if I'm not working

How did you find this website? I'm not exactly sure... google probably...

Job: Work at Citigroup

Plans for the future? Publish a book if I can ever finish one. Other than that get out of Citi and survive until then. I'd like to be a mommy someday too if finances allow.

Any comments? Like what? I hate open-ended questions...

What is your first name? That is one thing I won't be sharing on here.

Age: 31

Location: PA

Hobbies and Interests: a cappella ensemble singing of all types, choral music, conducting, harmony, music theory and composition, vocal pedagogy, history, wildlife, horticulture, growing exotic plants, psychology, learning from anything and everything.

Why are you here? I've recently been seeing a therapist for various reasons, and she told me that I might have Asperger Syndrome. I knew next to nothing about it, so I naturally started reading about it online and stumbled on this site.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I haven't been diagnosed with AS, but I was diagnosed with Tourettes as a child.

Favorite music: 20th century and contemporary choral music, any good modern/classic jazz, Broadway, big band, blues, salsa, Brazilian and Caribbean jazz, barbershop harmony, South African Zulu singing, Bulgarian wedding music, "early music" (medieval and Renaissance), a cappella vocal groups like The Real Group, The Swingle Singers, Take 6, Chanticleer, The King's Singers, Anuna...

Books: Any geeky non-fiction (history, anything musicological, psychology, the sciences i.e. physics, time travel, astronomy, geology, climatology, etc.), interesting and innovative self-help type books (VERY selectively)

TV shows/Movies: Shawshank Redemption, As Good As It Gets, Moonstruck, Dead Poets Society, Mr. Destiny, American Beauty, Office Space, Fight Club, Frequency, Mrs. Doubtfire, Breakfast Club, Primal Fear, A League Of Their Own, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Groundhog Day, When Harry Met Sally.

Instrument: I play almost everything, but badly. No, really. I am fairly good with the clarinet and sax. My primary instrument though, is my voice.

Do you like sports? I enjoy watching games occasionally and can enjoy playing them with friends, but I am not really into it.

Family: I'm single, with one younger sister.

Clothing: I wear clothes.

How did you find this website? Just doing google searches about AS

Job: Currently I have several. I'm a church choir director, a conducting assistant and singer in a professional symphonic choir, music director and conductor of a community choir, and teach studio voice, among other things.

Plans for the future? Quite a lot: finish my doctorate eventually and teach at the college level, publish some of my music, continually improve myself in every way I can, live someplace with no winter weather, have a mutually satisfying romantic relationship at some point, get my cattleya orchids to bloom, write a piece of music that brings at least one person to tears, and own an elephant. OK, maybe not the elephant...

Any comments? This is the kind of thing I'm doing instead of job applications...

What is your first name? Evan

Age: 20

Location: Fort Benning, GA

Hobbies and Interests: Video games, firearms, military tactics, sci-fi books, exercise

Why are you here? It's nice to see people who I can actually relate with.

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

Favorite subjects: I always loved any sort of science classes. Biology, chemistry, physics.

Year/Grade: Graduated high school, taking night classes at a local college.

Favorite music: Pop music, Disturbed.

Books: Nearly anything sci-fi, but I have a special place for Warhammer 40k. War story type books.

TV shows/Movies: House (Show), Equilibrium (Movie)

Instrument: N/A

Do you like sports? I enjoy martial arts and very occasionally playing tackle football.

Family: Don't connect with any of them, ever.

Clothing: Comfortable and functional. Jeans/tactical khakis or shorts depending on the weather, all-terrain running shoes or boots.

How did you find this website? - Friend of mine recommended it when we mutually revealed that we have Asperger's to each other. That was interesting.

Job: Infantryman, US Army

Plans for the future? Hoping to retire from the Army

Any comments? Negative

What is your first name? Mandee

Age: 20

Location: Michigan

Hobbies and Interests: Art

Why are you here? Aspergers

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 3 or 4

Favorite subjects: Art

Year/Grade: 4th year in college

Favorite music: Techno/Dance

Books: Horror

TV shows/Movies: Doctor Who and Pokemon

Instrument: Saxophone

Do you like sports? Not really

Family: I've drifted away from them

Clothing: jeans and a tshirt

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: I've sold some art

Plans for the future? Tattoo artist

Any comments? None

Welcome, new members!

This is an update post, with updates in bold.

Age: 31

Location: Houston, Texas. But there is a chance I might be relocating to the Los Angeles area for grad studies.

Hobbies and Interests: Animated sitcoms, geology, geography, art, architecture, green technology, Central Asian culture, Icelandic/Old Norse culture, Zen gardens, urban planning

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Diagnosed with PDD-NOS in 1988, and AS in 1996.

Favorite subjects: Geography, geology, urban planning, soil science.

Year/Grade: BS in Geography/Urban Planning, may pursue a MS in Geography or a M.Arch in Architecture.

Favorite music: Smooth Jazz, Acoustic Jazz, Acoustic Pop, Trip Hop, New Age, Sigur Ros, Indie, Cajun/Zydeco, Latin Jazz.

Books: Mainly non-fiction, but also like the Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, some Shakespeare, and the old Norse Eddas.

TV shows/Movies: TV: Simpsons, South Park, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, 12-oz. Mouse, Squidbillies, Scrubs, Home Movies, Adventure Time, Chowder, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Tosh.0, Paradise Beach, Two and a Half Men

Movies: Any Zucker Bros. movie, Animal House, most Mel Brooks movies, Super Troopers, Beerfest, Superbad, Walk Hard, Office Space, Waiting, Still Waiting, Idiocracy, Role Models.

Do you like sports? Yes, when my local teams are winning.

Family: I live with my parents, grandmother, and my dog, but I am trying to look for work so I can get my own place. I have a very large extended family.

Clothing: Loose-fitting. I generally wear a T-shirt and shorts (or sweatpants if it's really cold outside, but I am known to wear shorts even during a light freeze). However, in professional settings, I will wear slacks/khakis and a Oxford shirt and a tie.

Job: Currently looking for work as a cartographer, database administrator, Web programmer, or technical writer.

Plans for the future? Get my own place, grad school(?), further establishing my career, traveling (including Iceland, France, and/or Japan), marriage, starting a family.
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What is your first name? Ben

Age: 22

Location: It says, 'The Silver Millenium/Crystal Tokyo' under Location.

Hobbies and Interests: Video Games, Music, Reading.

Why are you here? I need to know and feel that I'm not the only Aspie/ADDer in an otherwise Neurotypical world.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): ADHD Combined Type: March 2005; AS - (first time) Circa late 1994, (second time) November 2010.

Favorite subjects: Biology, Psychology

Year/Grade: I've long since finished high school.

Favorite music: Uematsu (although honorable mentions go to many other game composers), The Used.

Books: Crank/Glass/Fallout, Cut,, Harry Potter, Look Me In The Eye, and just about everything from author Ned Hallowell.

TV shows/Movies: The OCD Project, Sailor Moon, Girl Interrupted, Thirteen, Pokemon, many others.

Instrument: None.

Do you like sports? Never have, never will (unless a sport like Unreal Tournament is created).

Family: Two brothers, mom, and dad.

Clothing: Dark blue jeans and hoodies.

How did you find this website? A friend recommended it.

Job: None.

Plans for the future? Something in medicine, like a shrink.

Any comments? No.

What is your first name? Shayla

Age: 23

Location: NY

Hobbies and Interests: Studying the holocaust, health, beauty and fitness, exotic coffees, movies, rock and roll, and the Arts

Why are you here? I have a 2 1/2 year old with Aspergers

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): My son was diagnosed last year.

Favorite subjects: history and english

Year/Grade: Currently in training to be a lactation consultant

Favorite music: Rock

Books: My favorite book is (and always will be) Where the Wild Things Are, I'm currently reading Death Dealer by Rudolf Hoss though

TV shows/Movies: House, CSI, American Idol/ and too many to name, I adore the Labrynth

Instrument: Djembe

Do you like sports? Not really, but my excersising routine includes Tai Chi, Yoga and hiphop dancing

Family: Large and loving =)

Clothing: Casual, jeans, cute t shirts, hoodies and converse, things easy to run after kids in.

How did you find this website? My "uncle" suggested it

Job: Writer/student/breast cancer councilor

Plans for the future? Beat cancer, see my kids grow up and get my book published

What is your first name? Franklin... guess I probably shouldn't have put that as my "nickname"

Age: 19

Location: Massachusetts

Hobbies and Interests: Math, video games, television.

Why are you here? Asperger's Syndrome

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 8th grade... which I think was 2005-06

Favorite subjects: Math

Year/Grade: N/A

Favorite music: Whatever sounds good, though certainly not scream-y stuff.

Books: Fiction

TV shows/Movies: Cartoons/Anime, Bones, CSI:, The Big Bang Theory

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? No

Family: Mom, Brother, Sister

Clothing: ...What?

How did you find this website? Google...

Job: none

Plans for the future? Job, hopefully go back to school in the distant future.

Any comments?

What is your first name? Susan

Age: 26

Location: Nova Scotia

Hobbies and Interests: religion, culture/learning about different countries, genealogy, photography, animals

Why are you here? To meet other people on the spectrum who might understand me/my experiences

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): In the process now. I thought I was an aspie for about 7 years now. I think I will either be diagnosed with that or with high-functioning autism (I talked around age 2 1/2)

Favorite subjects: I'm in university. My favourite classes are my religious studies and anthropology classes. I am majoring in both of those subjects.

Year/Grade: 3rd year university. Graduating in May 2012 with a BA

Favorite music: country

Books: depends

TV shows/Movies: I like Amazing Race, Survivor, American Idol, Big Bang Theory, Criminal Minds. Too many movies to list.

Instrument: Don't play any.

Do you like sports? Nope

Family: my Mom and Dad, older brother, niece, 3 nephews, and grandmother

Clothing: my sweater

How did you find this website? through facebook

Job: I work at the auditorium at my university, and I usher for concerts, symphony shows, and any other event held in that auditorium. I also volunteer at an animal rehab centre.

Plans for the future? Professor of theology

Any comments? Nope

My handle is Fieryhart.
I'll be 46 in a week.
I live in Southern England - by the sea.
I love dance, drama, music, singing, reading, writing, animals, nature, growing things.
I'm here because my son was diagnosed with ASD nine years ago, he's now almost 12, and I've had a growing conviction that I'm on the spectrum - I've just started reading Aspergirls by Rudy Simone and the book has made so many clicks with me I feel like an abacus. I'm looking for a place to share and learn with others who understand.
I've not been diagnosed and am only just now going to attempt to get a diagnosis - but I'm also wondering if the effort will be worth it - though I would really like to know, not just feel.
Favourite subjects - I love science fiction, science facts, all the arts, sociology, psychology, philosophy, languages, Asian culture
I received a BFA in Drama in 1988, and a certificate to teach ESL/EFL in 1991.
Favourite music - I love most music, as long as it's musical (to me - heavy metal/rock hurts.
I love books, fantasy, fiction, science fiction, poetry, plays (with some positive premise).
TV shows - Glee, True Blood, CSI, QI, Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Nature/History Documentaries, Favourite films - Truly, Madly, Deeply, Dead Again, The Kids are Allright, Lord of the Ring, Fantasia, lots!
I play the piano, and I play tennis. I dance - ballet, jazz, modern, would love to learn to lindy hop.
Family - my mum and dad and big sister have passed, my brother's disowned me. I have a daughter13, and a son soon 12. Aunt, cousins.
Clothes? Jeans, comfortable shoes (trainers/cowboy boots). But I can and do wear dresses on rare occasions.
Rudy Simone recommended this site to me through FB.
Jobs - ah. I tried professional acting. Then taught ESL in China for ten years. Tried to teach Drama when I returned to England in 2001, but found the Secondary Students abusive. Since then I cared for my father and also my son - so not had a proper job for a while.
I don't really know what my plans for the future are - raise my children, provide for them, shine my little light somehow - not be so much of a hermit.

What is your first name: Shanice.

Age: 15.

Location: South west of England.

Hobbies and Interests: Drawing mainly, and Habbo hotel :$$$

Why are you here: Because it's nice being in a forum with people that's similiar to me ;3

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I think I was 5 or 6.

Favorite subjects: English and German.

Year/Grade: 10.

Favorite music: Heavy metal, rock, classical. I don't like 'mainstream' at all.

Books: Frozen fire, The vampire diaries, Harry Potter ( I have read the Twilight series and I disliked it. )

TV shows/Movies: The vampire diaries, CSI. NCIS, nothing much more really, I don't watch TV that often.

Instrument: Piano/Keyboard, sometimes I like to play the acoustic guitar. But my friend has to teach me a song as I don't know how to play it, it's far too complicated for me.

Do you like sports?: I like Tennis.

Family: It would be hard to explain this one in a way.

Clothing: Kind of emo-ish, I tend to say that I have my own individual style though. I like wearing shirts, ties, jeans waistcoats and shizz at the same time, I've never come across anybody else that's similar to that. I do wear clothing from "Blue Banana" occasionally but their clothing never comes in my size

How did you find this website: It was posted somewhere, I don't remember what site.

Job: I'm in secondary school still, but in the future I'd love to be an English teacher or a Psychologist.

Plans for the future: ^^^^^

Any comments: Not really no

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