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Fray
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Joined: 29 Jul 2013
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Posts: 21
Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbow in Narnia
What is your first name? Fray
Age: 15
Location: North Carolina
Hobbies and Interests: Muuuusic! and zombies
Why are you here? Because my mum thinks I should because she thinks I'll feel like I fit in (even though I have no desire to conform), and because I'm bored and lonely.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Self-diagnosed since the age of 12, somewhat officially diagnosed about a week ago
Favorite subjects: Chorus
Year/Grade: 10th
Favorite music: Alternative/Indie/Folk. really most anything except most electronic music, country, rap, and screamo.
Books: I read. Just reaaaaaalllly slow :/
TV shows/Movies: Saturday Night Live and The Voice!
Instrument: Kazoo, piano, vocal chords.
Do you like sports? Eh. Sort of.
Family: Vague question.... I have a mum.. unfortunately, a dad.... a couple of sisters, but I don't know them too well.... what else?
Clothing: I wear it.
How did you find this website? My mum.
Job: Unemployed! For now c:
Plans for the future? Happiness c: and being a starving artist
Any comments? uh.... Hi? I'm new
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What is your first name? Vicky
Age: slightly younger than god, slightly older than dirt [AKA 60ish]
Location: Denver, Colorado USA
Hobbies and Interests: reading, writing, designing jewelry, baking, swimming, working out, nudism,spending time with family and friends
Why are you here? To meet, advice, get advice from others on the spectrum. oh, and to hopefully help my 19 year old son to find friends[life has been particularly difficult for him, long story] and maybe a girlfriend? [he's kind. he's hardworking. he's good-looking]
When were you diagnosed? I was unoficially diagnosed by an autism therapist who is a member at the nudist resort I live at.
Favorite subjects: writing
Year/Grade: Couldn't finish university because of Asperger's/social phobia
Favorite music: anything but rap
Books: To Kill A Mockingbird
TV shows/Movies
Do you like sports? Huge Denver Broncos fan
Family: husband, 5 kids, 6 grandkids
Clothing: jeans, silk t- shirt, fitted jacket, one of my necklaces, boots
How did you find this website? recommended by friends
Job: AVON lady, baker, jewelry designer, consignment, writer.
Plans for the future? To grow old as ungracefully as I grew up, but this time have fun doing it
What is your first name? Andre
Age: Middle Aged!
Location: Arkansas
Hobbies and Interests: This is a toughie. Mostly reading, fixing and taking apart lots of things, being nosy, bike riding, making money (legal!), computers and phones, and generally being somewhat active but I'm open to new avenues.
Why are you here? To Connect with other similar people, Aspies.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I haven't been officially yet. You can say , I followed the breadcrumbs on how I was acting.
Favorite subjects: The Gospel, then the sciences, go figure! Also trying to love math again.
Year/Grade: NA
Favorite music: Wide variety of varieties! Generally dislike Gangsta Rap stuff but I favorite from A to Z. From Adele to Warpaint.
Books: Frequent the Bible a lot. Last books read were Hyperion, Watership Down, Naruto Shippuden, and Great Expectations.
TV shows/Movies: The Impact Network and Discovery Channel... and let's not forget Wrestling. Kung Fu pics, Ip Man
Instrument: A Drill. Not musical but I have made some nice things though.
Do you like sports? Starting to warm up to soccer, always liked wrestling, UFC in small doses.
Family: Distant and scattered... for now at least but I hope.
Clothing: General Fatigues, nothing remarkable. Must have plenty of pockets since I carry a lot.
How did you find this website? I was reading through Yahoo! one day I think.
Job: Heating and Air Conditioning freelance, current work is Maintenance.
Plans for the future? to make 50,000 a year and to make new connections.
Any comments? Nice website here. Keep it up!
What is your first name? Chloé
Age: 21
Location: Planet Earth - sometimes -
Hobbies and Interests: Visual arts, litterature, movies, music, travelling
Why are you here? ... because why not.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2 days ago.
Favorite music: Classic rock, progressive, classical, jazz, blues
Books: Hugo, Vian, Aspergirls
TV shows/Movies: South Park, GTO
Instrument: Guitar and Piano
Do you like sports? NO.
Family: Yes (:
Clothing: anything that I bought when I was 13 and that is obviously too old to wear.
How did you find this website? By googeling asperger forum.
Job: not anymore
Plans for the future? still unknown
Any comments? I'm a really childish person.
What is your first name?: I prefer going by aliases online. I mostly go by havoc or nintendo_guy
Age: 23
Location: United States
Hobbies and Interests: Video Games, MMORPG, photography, Anime, clouds
Why are you here?: I was recommended to try these forums by a friend a while back but I could never bring myself to post anything. I rediscovered this site while trying to find a remedy for my recent memory loss
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): My memory of this is very blury but I was diagnosed at a young age if I remember correctly I was diagnosed around 6th grade. I was always awkward around others and prefered isolation. I often have trouble physically speaking to others and as such got called a ret*d a lot. Communication does not come naturally to me I find myself analyzing everything over and over before I know what to say and if I have no reply my mind often locks up. I have always been uneasy in crowded places and even now I find myself panicking in crowded areas as I discovered at my cousin's graduation (I've learnt to supress the growing anxiety but I can only do so for so long before I loose it)
Favorite subjects: Science, Computers, Games
Year/Grade: N/A
Favorite music: Country, J-pop, Techno, Rock, Game Music, SuperChic, Phil Collins
Books: The Outsiders
TV shows/Movies: Rush Hour, Code Lyoko, Case Closed, Psych, Eureka, Brother Bear, Tarzan, Mulan, Jackie Chan Adventures, Around the World in 80 Days, (I know theres lots more but currently that's all I remember)
Instrument: N/A
Do you like sports? Played soccer for a short time but never got into it. Somewhat liked BasketBall but only playing solo. Also had fun with bowling when younger.
Family: large family
Clothing: I hate fashion. I prefer to wear what's comfortable.
How did you find this website? I was recommended by a friend when I mentioned my "problem"
Job: N/A
Plans for the future? None. Originally planned to be an engineer, now not sure.
Any comments?: None I can think of currently.
What is your first name? Edward
Age: 19
Location: United States, but currently studying abroad in Singapore as of this post
Hobbies and Interests: Japanese video games, anime, manga, music
Why are you here? I have a hard time having longer conversations with other people and speaking up in general. I'm not officially diagnosed; closest thing is probably AS, but symptoms are pretty mild.
Favorite subjects: math, Japanese studies, science, computer science, philosophy
Year/Grade: Junior / 3rd year in college
Favorite music: I listen to many genres, but I tend towards electronic dance music (EDM), particularly drum'n'bass and/or anything from Japan.
Books: too many to list
TV shows/Movies: too many to list, only The Daily Show and The Colbert Report come to mind right now
Instruments: piano, trumpet, french horn
Do you like sports? I used to play golf. Other than that, not really.
Family: one younger brother
Clothing: I have no fashion sense whatsoever, just what is necessary to adapt to the weather.
Plans for the future? not sure
What is your first name? Phil
Age: 37
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Hobbies and Interests: computers, video games, snowboarding, cars, cigars, family
Why are you here? My 8 year old son was diagnosed with Aspergers last year. I found out I was the same shortly after that. Just looking for more people like us and trying to find help in raising my son so that his life can be as fulfilling as mine is.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): recently
Favorite subjects: Math and science
Year/Grade: graduated HS in 1994, college in 2003
Favorite music: Reggae, classic rock, hip hop, dubstep, metal
Books: The Xanth series.
TV shows/Movies: The Princess Bride, Kung Pow Enter the Fist, True Blood, Dexter, Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time, Grimm, The Following, Top Gear UK, ...
Instrument: Bass Guitar. Also Sax in grade school
Do you like sports? Not mainstream sports, but I do like snowboarding, BMX, skateboarding, and rally racing
Family: Wife of 11 years and 3 children. 10 year old daughter, 8 year old son (Aspie) and 6 year old daughter
Clothing: Lost weight so had to change my style, but I've always had a thing for skate shoes.
How did you find this website? Linked off the wikipedia page for Aspergers.
Job: Assistant Computer Systems Administrator for the Office of the Federal Public Defender of Nevada
Plans for the future? Enjoy raising my family.
Any comments? I really appreciate the insight I have gotten from these forums. Everyone seems so honest.
What is your first name? Sevenn
Age: 33
Location: Cleveland Ohio
Hobbies and Interests: Painting, writing, art, photography, gaming, larping, camping, learning about religions and spirituality, reading, and fire dancing/fire poi (though temporarily sidelined due to some physical disabilities going on, still love to watch videos and learn.)
Why are you here? To learn more about aspergers and autism, and hopefully figure out what my recent diagnosis means to me.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Just recently
Favorite subjects: art, reading, spirituality, fire dance, gaming of all kinds.
Year/Grade: N/A
Favorite music: Yes. A little bit of everything, from folk to dubstep, country, rap, rock, classical, jpop... It's hard to say what my "favorite" is, but some include seether, ani difranco, skrillex, red wanting blue, kellee maize, karma sutra, hikaru utada, janis joplin, axis of awesome (search youtube for the four chords song, its epic, and was my "first dance"song at my wedding.) and the list goes on and on.
Books: Anything by Anne Mccaffrey, stephen king, and yeah, a whole bunch of other stuff. Love Neil gaiman.
TV shows/Movies: Doctor who, buffy, angel, firefly (Yes, I heart joss whedon), under the dome, and just started watching the bridge.
Instrument: my ipod.
Do you like sports? they dont like me.
Family: Lots. Happily married for a year as of this past July.
Clothing: Depends on how I feel that day.
How did you find this website? Facebook.
Job: None at the moment, unfortunately. Had to go on medical leave and ultimately lost my job because i couldn't return. Fighting an extended fight with welfare, disability, etc right now.
Plans for the future? Try not to end up homeless? Try to figure out life and my dreams and my emotions I guess.
Any comments? nope.
What is your first name? Rob
Age: 44
Location: Florida
Hobbies and Interests: Economics, Politics, History, Philosophy, Modern Sci-Fi, Gaming
Why are you here? Newly diagnosed, and find it reassuring that others face similar challenges.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): July 25, 2013 (~ two weeks ago)
Favorite subjects: Economics, Politics, History, Philosophy, Mobile technology
Year/Grade: N/A
Favorite music: Beethoven, Coltrane, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, The Hold Steady, Public Enemy, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Arcade Fire, The National, Marillion, more ...
Books: Parting the Waters, The Big Con, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Nixonland, End This Depression Now!, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Rubicon, Stillwell and the American Experience in China, The First Salute, Chung Kuo, more ...
TV shows/Movies: West Wing, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, Frontline, Day the Universe Changed, Connections, Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Bridge, Longmire, more ...
Instrument: Drums, but lack dexterity to play well.
Do you like sports? I used to run competitively in my youth, but knees and right shin will not permit it, just walk, swim, and bike.
Family: Half-brother (profoundly mentally ill) has two kids, one bipolar. My parents are still alive and live nearby, live with wife and teenage stepson, about to attend small college nearby.
Clothing: Everything from jeans to suits to shorts and sandals. (Hey, it's Florida in August!) Whatever the occasion demands, basically.
How did you find this website? Searched for Asperger, saw Alex' name, recognized it from The Bridge.
Job: Unemployed, trying to start a business.
Plans for the future? Other than dying? Not especially.
Any comments?
What is your first name? William
Age: 23
Location: North London
Hobbies and Interests: Poetry, history, philosophy, theology, music, genealogy
Why are you here? To connect with similar people and to feel less alone.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): My condition was suspected when I was three; but I did not receive a formal diagnosis until I was 21. The teachers at my high school did not believe that I had ASD.
Favorite subjects: Poetry, philosophy, history, ethnology
Year/Grade: B.A. (Hons.) Psychology and Philosophy
Favorite music: I have a last.fm page under the username 'Odresfelt' (and feel free to add me if you also have a last.fm profile).
Books: Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. These books are a few of my favourites.
TV shows/Movies: Arrested Development, Breaking Bad, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
Instrument: Piano and guitar
Do you like sports? Not anymore.
Family: My immediate family includes two living parents, and one brother, with three aunts, three living uncles and six cousins. Since the age of 16, I've done a lot of research into my ancestry; I've since discovered English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, Silesian, Polish, Moravian, Danish and French ancestors with possible Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and/or Sephardi Jewish ancestors. It's possible that I have remote Italian ancestors as well.
Clothing: Formal (sometimes gothic).
How did you find this website? By accident.
Job: Genealogist/historian and unpublished poet at the moment.
Plans for the future? Yes. I hope to obtain an M.A. in Classics.
Age:52
Location: France, but I'm dutch
Hobbies and Interests:
Why are you here?chronic depression, finding out how to overcome criticism and daily harassment
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):no
Favorite subjects: music, litterature, art, history, politics, nature
Year/Grade: 79 but thrown out of the house during exams followed by some homeless years and drug use
Favorite music:reggae,worldmusic,rock,blues,jazz,classic,triphop
Books: much
TV shows/Movies:
Instrument: piano in childhood
Do you like sports? yes and no
Family: I think my daughter is also aspie,very brillant at school, easy, loved by everyone,and still at home doing nothing,afther several starts at university
Clothing:pratical
How did you find this website?on another woman-aspergersite
Job: not really ,kind of selfemployed/farming
Plans for the future?
Any comments? yeah I was at the bullying-site, that made me re-remember at bit more ? I had also one girlfriend but she always screamed and yelled at me in sportcourses and at the playing ground and I understood that as a child that she was ashamed of having me as her friend and maybe a bit jealous too.
And I never told my parents or anyone about it then /when I told my husband he said I was making that up and still when I tell something that has been unpleasant for me he says I'm making it up or I must be mad,but remembering this from my girlfriend I see it is somehow the same , he will not stand up for me (and never had)
in public, insted he prefers putting me down in front of other people.
Now I'm not with him anymore but still struggling.
I don't see that I should change but sometimes it's hard to cope
Yesterday when I was out the neighbor cut my raspberryhedge so I should say something about this,which is sure to depress me again before and after and as usual it will be all my fault because I say it badly.
What is your first name? Laura.
Age: 19, almost 20!
Location: Indiana.
Hobbies and Interests: Physics, Math, Biology, video games, running, biking, nature, science, reading..
Why are you here? I think I have Asperger's, so I decided to come here to meet people who are like me.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I'm not officially diagnosed.
Favorite subjects: Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy.
Year/Grade:Sophomore in college.
Favorite music: I love all genres, but my favorite is metal.
Books:Typically fantasy.
TV shows/Movies: Comedy.
Instrument: Violin.
Do you like sports? Not really.
Family: I have a twin sister and a younger brother.
Clothing: Nothing fancy, average I suppose.
How did you find this website? Does Google count?
Job:To be the best female Physicist out there.
Plans for the future? Marriage, no kids, a well paying job, happiness.
Any comments? N/A.
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What is your first name? Not telling
Age: 39
Location: USA
Hobbies and Interests: drawing, running, reading, studying
Why are you here? to learn more about autism
When were you diagnosed? about a month ago
Favorite subjects: science, mechanical things
Year/Grade: some college
Favorite music: trance
Books: Tolkien
TV shows/Movies: Star Trek
Instrument: I wish I learned guitar, and some other instruments
Do you like sports? martial arts mainly, running
Clothing: mostly casual, androgynous, practical
How did you find this website? DeviantArt
Job: Army Veteran, now unemployed
Plans for the future? unknown, mostly wishes. have to change career
Any comments?
What is your first name? Heidi
Age: 32
Location: Central New York
Hobbies and Interests: Sewing, Knitting, Historical Reenacting, Roller Skating, Hiking
Why are you here? Spouse possibly has Asperger's/Autism, and I need help understanding how to communicate best with him.
Favorite subjects: Clothing and Fashion History, History, anything creative
Favorite music: EBM/Goth/Techno, Black Metal, Grunge, and various others.
Books: How-tos, mostly relating to knitting or sewing. The rare fiction book--The Outlander Series, usually
TV shows/Movies: Bones, Star Trek: TNG, anything Gordon Ramsay (lately), Inspector Lewis and other British mysteries
Do you like sports? Only Roller Derby
Family: an undiagnosed Aspie husband and two cats, Earl and Noodle.
Clothing: I'm sort of Romantic/Classic
How did you find this website? Recommendation from an article on Aspie relationships
Job: Business Assistant for Radio Station
Plans for the future? Older, wiser, happier.
Any comments?
I'm not much of a chatter because of lack of time, but I don't view AS/Autism as a defect or a disease that needs curing, but a brain wiring. Nothing is wrong with you, you just see and think differently than I, and some pretty amazing things come out of that kind of thinking. However, it's still not easy to be married to a spouse like this--for years it's been like trying to plug a smart phone into a phone jack and expecting it to work. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to best communicate with the smart phone so I can best let it know about me.
What is your first name? Casey
Age: 28
Location: Buckley, WA (Washington State, not West Australia)
Hobbies and Interests: I have trouble with being interested in anything but staring at walls ...
Why are you here? Trying to connect with other humans.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I've been formally diagnosed with Bipolar I, II, Psychotic, ADHD, and Autistic ... so, I'm certain that doctors basically just say things for money. Which I have none of, and cannot afford or obtain healthcare these days.
Favorite subjects: Physics, Epistemology
Year/Grade: Flunked second year of college
Favorite music: Nah ...
Books: Anything by Philip K. Dick
TV shows/Movies: A Scanner Darkly
Instrument: 12-string Guitar
Do you like sports? West-coast American Football's okay.
Family: I'm not sure what this means ... I have a brother, a sister, and a mum ... all of whom are just fine, and employed, and have friends.
Clothing: Whatever doesn't smell bad. Never could afford to decide what I wear.
How did you find this website? Searching for things to do that aren't suicidal.
Job: Nope ... Very qualified for many, but I'm just not personable enough.
Plans for the future? I dread it. I dread each day, unfortunately. I'd love to HAVE a plan for the future, but I have zero control in the present anyway.
Any comments? How on Earth am I supposed to get through the day?
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Hey... Hello? I'm not alone, am I?