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First Name: Ryan

Age: 17

Location: Arizona

Hobbies and Interests: Mostly music but basically anything that interests me. I'm not picky.

Why are you here?
To post.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
Summer of 2001

Favorite music: Can't pick one! I range from the mid-50's to the present, which includes Rock, Metal, and Country.
Check this: www.freewebs.com/bloodboneinjustice/mycdcollection.htm That'll give you a better idea.

Books: Don't often read.

TV: 24, Viva La Bam, American Idol, South Park, CSI: Miami (although I don't watch much TV often either)

Instrument(s): Bass guitar, guitar, learning piano.

Do you like sports? Nope

Family: Mother, stepfather, younger brother

Clothing: I like Vans shirts, faded and/or ripped jeans, and I'm never seen without my AC/DC cap.

How did you find this website? Aspies For Freedom. I was first interested in a messageboard just for people with AS, and I went to AFF, and there were mostly parents, and they told me about this place.

Job: I have a full-time job at a grocery store as a carry-out, one of those laboring losers who bag your groceries.

Plans for the future? Once I turn 18, I will go for promotion to go into the meat department in my store, with bigger pay and raises ($8.70 and raises compared to $6.00 and no raises as a carry-out). I will save enough money to attend a school of luthiery (www.roberto-venn.com) to learn to build and repair guitars. I also want to join/start a band as a bassist.

Any comments? Cool site. I've had past experiences, having forgot my usernames (I'm not actually a regular member so I don't remember my usernames and passwords (except one but it was stupid), so I know it's a great site, although I've made few posts.

Age: 21

Location: South Germany

Hobbies and Interests: reading, watching tv, writing letters, juggling, origami, learning foreign languages (Turkish, modern Hebrew, Arabic), Middle East cultures and politics, psychology

Why are you here?: I'm interested in autism and think I might have AS or something similar myself

Favourite subjects: English, Latin, Religion, Social Studies

Year/Grade: Graduated last year

Favourite music: U2, Robbie Williams, John Lennon

Books: Harry Potter, Paul Auster, David Sedaris, Ephraim Kishon

TV shows / Movies: Simpsons, Monk, Scrubs, Friends / The Sixth Sense, Red Dragon, While You Were Sleeping, Rain Man, Fight Club, Keeping the Faith

Instrument: Can't play one myself unfortunately, but I like the piano best

Do you like sports?: No, though table tennis, badminton and hockey are quite fun (I still suck at them too)

Family: Older brother (24), little half brother (5), little half sister (almost 1), two cats

Clothing: Casual, and not without my jeans jacket

How did you find this website?: Searching for forums for AS

Job: None at the moment, just studying

Any comments: This is a cool and very informative website, I'm glad I've stumbled over it

What is your first name? ..marci

Age: 35

Location: texas border town

Hobbies and Interests: none

Why are you here? have 2 sons one seems to be an Aspie/non dx..other son PDD

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How did you find this website? found it searching for autism stuff found it a long time ago

Job: none/ADHD

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Any comments?....I NEED HELP UNDERSTANDING MY SONS

What is your first name? Zoe

Age: 20

Location: New Hampshire

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, reading, mysticism, tarot, psychology, The Sims 2.

Why are you here? Diagnosed with nonverbal learning disorder.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Diagnosed when I was 12. Found out about the diagnosis when I was 16. Actually started researching it when I was 19.

Favorite music: Alanis Morissette, Dar Williams, Kamelot, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Casey Stratton

Books: Ack, too many to count. But a couple of my favorites are The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, Heartlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Welcome to the Ark by Stephanie S. Tolan.

TV shows/Movies: Battlestar Galactica, 24, Heroes, House, and anything by Joss Whedon.

Instrument: I don't play music. I tried it, but didn't like it.

Do you like sports? No.

Family: Mom and dad.

Clothing: T-shirts and jeans.

How did you find this website? I honestly don't remember.

Job: None.

Plans for the future? I want to be a professional novelist.

What is your first name? Paul

Age: 27, May 1979.

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Hobbies and Interests: Visual Arts, Chess, Music and watching the wheels go round.

Why are you here? Apparently I've caught Asperger and I'm trying hard to shake it off of me. Besides I was trying to play some chess games here.

When were you diagnosed? Age 27

Favorite music: Muse, The Verve/Richard Ashcroft, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Drake, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah etc

Books: A Brave New World & Time Must Have A Stop (Aldous Huxley), Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) & Dylan Thomas

TV shows/Movies: Jiskefet, Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

Instrument: Electric/Acoustic Guitar and a bit piano.

Do you like sports? Nope, except when chess is considered a sport.

Family: Yes

Clothing: Hopefully yes

How did you find this website? Oops, I typed the wrong adress..

Job: Yes/No

Plans for the future? To have the luxury of making objects, paintings and drawings for a living. Not being an artist but merely enjoying myself pretending I am one.

Ah, a wiseguy, huh?

What is your first name? Tracy... aka Spacy, as per my mom.

Age: 28

Location: New Brunswick, Canada

Hobbies and Interests: Digital art, spiders, Wrong Planet, Flash, music, Wikipedia, surrealism, making short films on Super-8

Why are you here? Because I like this website and the people I've met through it

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): ADHD - err... 1995? I think? Long time ago.

Favorite subjects: Art, music, biology, neurology, any language. ANY language. They're all great.

Year/Grade: Graduated in visual arts at university

Favorite music: Punk, new wave, goth, some metal, some alternative, jazz, blues, old country, rockabilly, psychobilly, surf

Books: Encyclopediae, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, LOTR (and all the associated works), Dragonlance, many, many more...

TV shows/Movies: TV: South Park, Family Guy, almost anything on the Discovery channel / TLC, the Colbert Report and of course, YOUTUBE! Movies: Scary movies are my fave.

Instrument: Guitar, bass, vocals, some rudimentary piano, some trumpet.

Do you like sports? meh, not really. I skateboard and snowboard half-decently, but that's about it. Oh, and I'm pretty good at ping-pong, too. If you consider that a sport.

Family: Mom, dad, little sis, 2 cats, one tarantula and my fiancé (err... that wasn't supposed to be in order of importance or anything)

Clothing: Jeans, t-shirts, hoodies, sneakers, preferably.

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: Internal tech support for a major shipping company's call centre

Plans for the future? Yeah, sometimes

Any comments? This website kicks ass, and so do all of you!

great music drowningmedusa !

Hello - This is a wonderful website...I am very impressed not only by the way it is set up, but by it's members....how helpful everyone is. I am a parent of a 9 1/2 year old boy with AS so I will be answering these questions about him.

What is your first name?

Derek....but I like people to call me Spaceman

Age:

9 1/2....I tell people I'm 253 in Martian years

Location:

Florida (born in San Jose, CA, however)

Hobbies and Interests:

Space space and more space, the human anatomy, I LOVE MATH!, Geography...particularly pangea and the United States and it's capitals, the American Presidents, the periodic table and chemical make-ups of objects

Why are you here?

Support, ideas, reinforcement

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

By the state when he was four years old.....my his Pediatric Neurologist (whom he still sees) 3 years ago when he was 6. Diagnosed AS, but also exhibits several traits leaning more toward autism. (Echolalia. (sp?)/// He also takes a very long and labored time forming sentences. Can't tolerate loud noises....freakishly high pain threshold. Also extremely ADHD!! Takes the 30 mg Daytrana patch every day...which, by the way, I am very happy with...)

Favorite subjects:

Gifted program for Science and Math (on the schools' Math Bowl team) also in remedial reading/communication/"freindship" groups (great public school for AS kids!!)

Year/Grade: 4th

Favorite music:

Not really interested in music at this point.

Books:

Anything to do with the Solar System or the Human Anatomy...does NOT like non-fiction books at all and has a hard time understanding conversations in them even a little...

TV shows/Movies:

NASA Channel....Discovery Channel, Deal or No Deal and Backyardigans...go figure....

Instrument:

Likes to play with his sisters piano sometimes, but that's it.

Do you like sports?

I know this is not "typical", but he is almost OVERLY athletic! Took gymastics for a while and is unusually strong for any child. Does tricks on his bike, skateboard, scooter....fastest runner in the neighboorhood...great at throwing footballs and baseballs.

Family:

Dad (a computer engineer...thinks he might be slightly AS himself), Mom, older sister and brother who are both honor roll students but no signs of AS at all.

Clothing:

Oh boy....does NOT like underwear...have to check before he leaves the house...does not know what "matching" is...doesn't care to match what he's wearing to the temperature outside

How did you find this website?

links from other sites

Job:

Derek INTENDS to work for NASA... The joke is that Derek will be an Engineer at NASA, but mommy and Daddy will pick him up after work. Hey, his Dad's and engineer and we already live in Florida....I'd put money on the fact that this will come true.

Plans for the future?

NASA....although we have to get him through middle school first and I'm not too sure how that will go!

Any comments? Thanks for this website...

What part of Florida?

What is your first name? Emma

Age: 24

Location: Manchester, England

Hobbies and Interests: I don't like hobbies, but I like words. Just reading them, learning about them, writing them down. I have a half-finished dictionary somewhere, and have plans to invent a new way of classifying words.

Why are you here? I've become very disturbed by the weird stuff I do.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I'm not, and don't intend to unless it gets really bad.

Favorite subjects: Words, history, geography (ooh, maps!), language, architecture.

Year/Grade: Whoa! Left that behind about ten years ago.

Favorite music: Only Leonard Cohen understands me (though The Smashing Pumpkins on full volume make me freak out sufficiently enough to make it worthwhile).

Books: Anything factual. Currently trying to read about endocrinology and embryology, but I keep getting sidetracked by other things.

TV shows/Movies: Nope. Got rid of it earlier this year. Way to many difficulties with it.

Instrument: Nope here also, sadly.

Do you like sports? Hahahahahahaha! Oh, you were serious.....

Family: Too many to count. No children yet, but would love some, and don't want to let anything get in the way (read above regarding not getting diagnosed).

Clothing: Jeans and tshirt or jumper most days. I like skirts, moreso short ones, but people look at me if I wear them.

How did you find this website? From Wikipedia (No longer addicted! Yay! (Although I did have to get rid of my computer.)).

Job: Administrative work in the NHS.

Plans for the future? Kids, boyfriend (not in that order), maybe I will be able to go back into education in the future. Otherwise, who knows?

Any comments? It wasn't me! I'm just the patsy!

What is your first name? John, but I go by Alex (my middle name).

Age: 36 (37 in December 18th)

Location: San Diego

Hobbies and Interests: Computers, fencing, kayaking, RPGs.

Why are you here? To learn more about Asperger's and High-functioning Autism.

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

Favorite subjects: History, poetry, modern firearms, fishing.

Year/Grade: A few credits left for my AA; living off of my certifications.

Favorite music: Honestly, I like it all.

Books: Nine Princes in Amber, The Lord of the Rings, The Art of War, The Prince, Rainbow Six, Dune.

TV shows/Movies: Firefly/Serenity, Alien and Aliens, The Professional, Rome, and Deadwood.

Instrument: rapier or ep'ee

Do you like sports? playing a little, watching rarely

Family: Aunt, uncle, mother, cousin, and two friends who might as well be brothers.

Clothing: Usually.

How did you find this website? Quite by accident.

Job: Tech Support

Plans for the future? finish AA, maybe BA, get either CCIE or DB admin certification, meet the right lady, settle down, have kids, retire to a ranch. I have learned that often life makes your decisions for you on occasion, so I am prepared to adapt. :^p

Any comments? How is everyone doing?

What is your first name? Jo

Age: 27

Location: Sydney, Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, swimming, music, tai chi, basketball.

Why are you here? Diagnosed

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): November 2006

Favorite subjects: History, Geography, Music

Year/Grade:

Favorite music: Most forms (Can't stand boy/girl bands, country or nightclub stuff)

Books: Mostly biographies

TV shows/Movies: TV: Documentaries, comedy (satire/stand-up mainly), sports. Movies: Different types.

Instrument: Flute.

Do you like sports? I like watching Football (the proper one please!) mainly but there are other sports I do love watching too.

Family: Hubby, two sons

Clothing: Whatever I find suits me.

How did you find this website? On Google

Job: None at present

Plans for the future? Improvement on many fronts.

Any comments?

What is your first name?

Age: 26

Location: Northern Virginia, just south of the DC Beltway

Hobbies and Interests: I'm a member of the Obsession Of The Month club.
Knitting, Woodworking, Electronics, Most anything computer related (hardware, gaming, programming), Camping/hiking (though it's been far too long since I've actually done any), Spirituality/mysticism/paranormal, Science/weird science/unexplaned phenomena, Alternative energy sources, Happiness and the pursuit and attainment thereof, Practicing and listening to music, Text adventures

Why are you here? Curiosity, looking for people I can relate to and who maybe can relate back

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
Haven't been officially diagnosed with AS, but I've tried a few of the quizzes and been right on the edge and I can identify with many of the things that I have read here. If I don't have it, then I apparently have enough of the same kinds of quirks that being here will probably be a good thing for me ^_^

Favorite subjects: See hobbies and interests above

Year/Grade: Graduated from college with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 2003

Favorite music: Very eclectic. Video game soundtracks, Celtic, some pop, some dance, some electronica...

Books: For technical topics, by far my favorites are the Head First series. My favorite fiction books include: The Black Jewels Trilogy, Shockwave Rider, Snowcrash, His Dark Materials Trilogy

TV shows: Firefly, The Daily Show, Stargate SG1, Family Guy, That 70s Show, Eureka, Trigun, Bleach, Wallace and Gromit, Doctor Who

Movies: V For Vendetta, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, The Matrix, The Triplets of Belleville

Instrument: (in order of descending proficiency) Hammered Dulcimer, Mountain Dulcimer, Violin, Guitar

Do you like sports? Sure! Broomball, ultimate frisbee, martial arts (especially Hapkido!), yoga, and pilates

Family: The usual number of parents, four siblings.

Clothing: On the job, business casual (mainly because it's the dress code ) Around the house, depends on what I'm doing. I'm a big fan of flannel pajama pants and corduroys and sweatshirts and such, but for working on projects I'll often go with jeans and t-shirt with something geeky on it ("I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on the server!") I also have a few kimonos that I like to wear for relaxing in.

How did you find this website? I'm not sure, but I think it was doing an AS search on Google

Job: Contracting as a Web Application Developer

Plans for the future? Continuing to develop my hobbies and pursue my interests and work on my relationship skills (I seem to have the empathy thing down pretty well; I can usually figure out when someone is upset and why--but figuring out what to do once I know that is very difficult!)

Any comments?

Hi my name is Paul

i was recently diagnosed with as and it was the best day of my life!

im 27
im a gifted musician thanks to AS!
I have a fulltime job doing something completely boring and repetitive but the pay is good.
i spend ridiculous amounts of time starring at the floor or something else thats available to stare at HAHA.
I only found out i had AS 3 weeks ago and already things are getting better.
And this is the coolest forum ive ever found@!

woohoo!