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first name: danny

age:15

location:clearwater,bc canada

hobbies and interests:electronics,science,music,alternative energy,paranormal stuff

why are you here? because 2 people did'nt use protection when the time came

when/diagnosis? about 4 years ago. the're still not shure exactly what it is

year/grade:Im in the 8th grade about to go tito the 9th
music:
manly listen to most country but I like classic rock (led zepplin,kiss,bob siger, ect ) I also am "into" hevy metal(AC/DC,cant think of any others right now.) I have also been known to listen to classical music.

books: I like steven king, dean koonts,popular mechanic's,popular science and harry potter

TV shows: my favorite TV shows are family guy,american dad,the simpsons,futurama my name is earl,king of the hill and that 70s show

Instrument:I play the sterio

do you like sports? NO!

I have 3 sisters and 1 brother

I wear jeans and tee-shirts.I absolutly do not dress formaly.EVER! I dont even own a tie

How did I find this website? my mom kept begging me I finally came on here to make her stop talking,talking,talking, talking,talking.

Job: I sill live at home so I just collect empties from diches and a couple of houses

Plans for the future:I dunno

What is your first name? Ben

Age: 21

Location: Portland, OR

Hobbies and Interests: Music. Indie rock, underground hip-hop. Baseball. Camping-hiking-etc.

Why are you here? Why not?

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2003

Favorite subjects: the easy ones

Year/Grade: ahahaha no

Favorite music: Cat Stevens, Dylan, MF Doom, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds

Books: small-press graphic novels are better.

TV shows: Lost, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Movies: I like them.

Instrument: Gitar with no "u"

Do you like sports? Baseball, yes, like it.

Family: they're cool.

Clothing: grungy but clean, y'know.

How did you find this website? wikipedia

Job: washing dishes. i think it's a growth industry, and I have stock options etc.

Plans for the future? gonna go to a rap concert on 1/5. after that, it's all up in the air.

What is your first name? Its pronounced Aaron (incorrectly, but that's better than the correct pronunciation.) Thanks to paranoia, not posting the actual (unusual) spelling

Age: 22

Location: A podunk college town in Virginia

Hobbies and Interests: Not too much here...

Why are you here? See above? And I'll call it a disorder grab-bag.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I think something like ten years ago, shortly after I punched a ceramic tile wall and realized that wasn't a healthy coping strategy. For various reasons my memory has the consistency of swiss cheese. And not that processed crap.

Favorite subjects: Psychology, Philosophy, Legends of the Hidden Temple

Year/Grade: Grad School if I get accepted?

Favorite music: The Postal Service, 30 Seconds to Mars, several others

Books: Anything by William Gibson.

TV shows/Movies: Scrubs, Legends of the Hidden Temple

Instrument: I was in choir through most of middle/high school, but the marlboro reds likely aren't helping that.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: College student. Football games and alcohol go together frequently.

Family: Both parents, and a slightly psychotic cat.

Clothing: Jeans, some shirt from Target, probably sandals, maybe a hoodie

How did you find this website? I am the master of the internets. The site found me.

Job: Making it in to grad school?

Plans for the future? Hopefully clinical work, rather than research, assuming the whole grad school thing pans out.

Any comments? perhaps...

b]What is your first name?[/b] Jan

Age: 22

Location: Antwerp, Belgium

Hobbies and Interests: Videogames, electro music, the usual stuff

Why are you here? can't sleep atm

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 1998 or sth

Favorite subjects: games again ^^

Year/Grade: The belgian educational system doesn't have anything in common with the american one so i wouldn't know how to compare

Favorite music: at home just about anything, to party mainly electro

Books: fantasy

TV shows: Bleach

Movies: nah

Instrument: gituar

Do you like sports? i tolerate their existance ^^

Family: way too large

Clothing: streetwear

How did you find this website? wikipedia

Job: Sales - telecommunications sector. I sell mobile phones and contracts >_>

Plans for the future? working way too hard for too little pay ^^

What is your first name? It begins with an "H"

Age: 27

Location: Eastern Iowa

Hobbies and Interests: Programming, games, guitar, drawing, documentaries

Why are you here? Like to see their are people like me

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

Favorite subjects: programming (computers in general), science, music

Year/Grade: Done with school..thank God.

Favorite music: alt-rock, classical, folky, anything weird

Books: non-fiction, biographies, and Sci-fi

TV shows: Mythbusters, british comedies, Iron Chef, CSI

Movies: most documentaries and dark comedies

Instrument: guitar, voice,piano

Do you like sports? Used to play softball, not so much anymore

Family: Oldest sister, one younger brother and sister.. they live 1500 miles away

Clothing: whatever fits and whatever people give/buy me

How did you find this website? probably Google

Job: Data Analyst

Plans for the future? Moving the heck out of Iowa, and getting a job in programming
Thats it!

What is your first name? Amund

Age: 19

Location: Bergen, Norway

Hobbies and Interests: Composing and performing music

Why are you here? Ehh.. Where?

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): at age 17. I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome

Favorite subjects: English

Year/Grade: Shoud've been done last year. Is attenting last year of school

Favorite music: Oh, this is a hard one. Jazz(Bebop) probably

Books: Music Theory

TV shows/Movies: Splatter Movies

Instrument: Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Harmonica, Drums, Bass, Vocals

Do you like sports? They're okay. I hate team sports though. It has to be individual.

Family: a younger brother

Clothing: Denim and leather

How did you find this website? Through AS Community

Job: None

Plans for the future? Performing Musician

Any comments?

Nope.

What is your first name?: Gabriel

Age: 24

Location: Munich, Germany

Hobbies and Interests: Astrophysics, Computer Programming

Why are you here? I want to learn how to survive in this world as an aspie.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Self-diagnosed on 28th ov November 2007

Favorite subjects:
* Primary School: everything but History and Sports
* High School: Maths, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Computer programming, English
* University: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Computer Programming, Statistical Experimental Methods, Electromagnetism, Theoretical Mechanics, Astronomy, GNU/Linux Principles and Tools, UNIX for Users, UNIX for Administrators, Advanced Programming.

Year/Grade: 1st year grad student

Favorite music: classic rock, progressive rock, symphonic rock, pop rock, new age, classical

Books: sci-fi, scientific books

TV shows/Movies:
* Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons
* Movies: One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest, Rainman, Forest Gump, Infinity, Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting, Contact, Antitrust, Matrix, Equilibrium

Instrument: flute

Do you like sports? I don't like them since childhood, but now my brain simply does't work without regular gym workout.

Family: half orphan (father died 7 years ago), NT mother, one sibling - brother (showing some aspects of AS)

Clothing: trainers, blue or black jeans and whatever on top (usually T-shirt or short-sleeve shirt). Neutral, rather dark colors, no labels.

How did you find this website? Google

Job: grad student

Plans for the future? Research in my field of astrophysics.

Any comments? I see that need for social interaction in modern science can force me soon to the pure applied science. If you are not a team worker, you are dead man. The amount of knowledge even in the narrow scientific field is too large to be handled by single aspie.

What is your first name?: Camilla (but you can call me Micki, or any respectful nickname you like, I admire creativity)

Age: 20

Location: Vaasa, Finland

Hobbies and Interests: Boy, this is a tough one...generally eclectic. To sum it up...Music is my everything (listening and making), making and consuming art in general, including visual and verbal...all sorts of designing (photo-, film-, "fashion-" [even if I dislike the term 'fashion']). Science fiction (am pretty picky though). Psychology in all it's forms (especially criminal), philosophy, debates (as long as it doesn't become hostile arguing, I like to keep it decent). Dystopian science fiction...and oh, I have this huge thing for collecting vinyl records and ties. I go nuts on flea markets (not only for the LP's), and all second hand shops.

Why are you here?: Well obviously, to find like-minded people to interact with, and maybe provide myself with some answers regarding my rather odd behaviour and preferences (at least comparing to usual "standards" out there which are rather disturbing at times, as they can create a certain kind of "pressure")

When were you diagnosed?: My family discovered this in early -04, and since then I have made some thorough investigation on the matter and came to the conclusion that there is a high probability for me to be a case. Even if I don't like the concept of self-diagnosing. But I'll work on it.

Favorite subjects: I tried my best to sum it up in Hobbies & Interests. But if you mean school subjects, I'd say I liked everything. Bad teachers were the reason if something sucked, I saw the difference since I went to many different schools (9 first years to 5 different schools).

Year/Grade: Right now I'm stuck in my Art & Media/High School -combo studies because of health issues.

Favorite music: Few years back the answer would have been a strong "80's synth" -one...but now I've grew such an eclectic taste. Mainly synthetic...but there is pretty much at least something in most genres that I like. E.g, I'm no metal fan, but I like Ozzy and Black Sabbath.
But fave bands/artists include: Depeche Mode (Martin Gore = Genius), Jean-Michel Jarre, The Cure, Alphaville, Tears for Fears, Killing Joke, Ultravox, Kraftwerk, Das Ich, Jefferson Airplane, Joy Division etc...
So I like synthpop/-rock/-punk, industrial and such very much, but you can't draw the line there. I'd get bored if change wasn't allowed.

Books: Anything by King, Anne Rice etc...I like Orwell and Wells too, but mainly I just like reading anything that I find intriguing. I also love non-fiction as in fact- or documentary literature. I used to read my school books for recreation I have a huge love for dictionaries and encyclopedias. Wiki is my friend.

TV shows/Movies: I don't like TV, but some stuff I like enough to download. I liked Lost before I even knew it's a fad (...for the psychological aspect, like the reason behind all the survivors' behaviour. E.g. why Sawyer is being such an ass o_O quite interesting actually). Also if I am near an open TV, I enjoy comedy, but am picky though (Conan O'Brien is hilarious), and crime/cop series like CSI and NYPD Blue. I really really liked the show "Numb3rs" which is about mathematicians who are used to solve crimes with, surprise surprise, logic/numbers/math :O I really find this touches my nerve for logical, but still creative problem solving. I also think House is the best doctor-show ever. I am an avid X-files maniac too. OK, I like TV more than I'd like to admit o_O
I love the LOTR-trilogy, I have always been a Trekkie and an SW-nerd (the old trilogy), and I absolutely adore Blade Runner. David Cronenberg, John Carpenter and Tim Burton are my fave directors. Not forgetting Lynch or Lukas Moodysson as well. I basically like really obscure stuff.
Some adds to movie-list: Rain Man, Interview With a Vampire, Dracula, Back to the Future -trilogy, Life of Brian...

Instrument: Piano/keyboards and vocal cords mainly, but I also am a lot into base, guitar and drums. I wanna learn other, a bit more classical instruments too. Cello or clarinet would be great.

Do you like sports? Playing them, not watching. Even if I mostly like doing things solo, I like team sports like football (soccer to you Yanks), basketball, (Scandinavian) baseball, and floorball (am not sure how familiar the rest of the world is with this, it is pretty popular in Scandinavia).
One thing though that I would simply not live without is dancing. Because it's intervowen with music, you know. I love the creativity involved...the rhythm and groove. It's an art-form, and I love the power of the physical expression. Ball games in general

Family: Dad 400 km SE in the Capital, Helsinki....mom on the other side of the Atlantic in Florida...dad's parents and brother over in my home town Stockholm (Sweden), mom's mother and sisters in eastern Finland. So everyone at the distance of a 350 km -minimum which is ideal don't put us in the same room - we don't function together (the curse of having 95% of your paternal family AS-cases .__. )

Clothing: Black. With bright color-highlights. Casual. My own style, what ever I feel like at that moment. It changes like my moods.

How did you find this website? I think it was through wiki's entry on AS....

Job: Student/Street corner artist/class clown

Plans for the future? I'll keep my doors open, and choose my path from opportunities that come. I will move out of Finland though after graduation and preferrably head for Berlin or Amsterdam to either attend some form of Art College or maybe a course on criminal prychology at a uni. I still have time to make up my mind...

Any comments? Sorry for the verbal vomit. I guess I ain't very successful at describing myself in a nutshell, hah

Edit: Just added some random stuff, edits in cursive

I might be older than your mother.

Blonde huh?

Age: 21

Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Hobbies and Interests: NASCAR, baseball, football, public transportation

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Never

Year/Grade: Sophomore at university

Favorite music: House, jazz, bluegrass, 80s pop

Books: Nah

TV shows/Movies: Scrubs, have also watched The A-Team, MacGyver, Remington Steele and The Simpsons religiously.

Instrument: No cando

Do you like sports? Refer to #3 Also play soccer casually and softball at university

Clothing: casual, normally not following any style

How did you find this website? unrelated random google search

Job: Student

Age: 27 (born December 10, 1979, in Houston, Texas)

Location: Deer Park, Texas (a suburb of Houston)

Hobbies and interests: transportation, computer games, varying parts of the world (currently it is Central Asia--the 'Stans), geology, maps, foreign languages

When was I diagnosed: 1996 at age 16

Year/Grade: currently sitting out a semester, but I am a junior in college

Music: Latin Jazz (Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes, etc.), smooth jazz (John Tesh, Kenny G, etc), 70s, 80s

Books: The Canterbury Tales (especially the Miller's Tale), rest is mostly self-help or special interest--don't read that much fiction

TV Shows: Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Ugly Betty, Monk, and anything on Adult Swim or Cartoon Network

Movies: Animal House, the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, any Zucker Bros. movie (Airplane!, Naked Gun, etc.), Bachelor Party, the Money Pit, Blazing Saddles, Full Metal Jacket

Instrument: played the double bass in 6th grade orchestra. I did much better in choir the following year.

Clothing: T-shirt and shorts in non-work settings--year round. Polo and khakis at work.

How did I find this website: through another Aspie group. I joined this group over 2 years ago, then I forgot I was a member, and started regularly posting in March 2006

Job: Mapping (GIS) Technician, but also a student majoring in geology.

Living arrangements: with my parents, my grandmother, and my dog

Relationship status: Currently single, but looking. I have had two relationships in the past (not at the same time, of course)

Goals: finish school, become a professional geologist, marriage (or co-habitation), kids.

Tim