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What is your first name? Sue

Age: 47

Location: Texas

Hobbies and Interests: writing

Why are you here? To gain more information about AS, about me, and how I can help to improve myself and my relationship.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Self-diagnosed, December 2013

Favorite subjects: Math

Year/Grade: I wish

Favorite music: I like it all

Books: Self-help or non-fiction (why isn't it just called "Fact"?)

TV shows/Movies: dramas or comedy

Instrument: clarinet & tenor sax (a long, long, time ago)

Do you like sports? Not participating but I love to watch hockey & motocross

Family: 3 daughters, 2 grandsons, 1 granddaughter

Clothing: casual

How did you find this website? RDOS Aspies Quiz website

Job: not currently employed, I'm a "Jane-of-all-trades"

Plans for the future? To live the rest of my days with my soul-mate, happily

Any comments? Not yet

Hi all!

What is your first name? - not now, maybe later or via private message!

Age: 24

Gender: Female in body, neutral in spirit

Location: the Netherlands

Hobbies and Interests: Latin, classics, linguistics, politics, philosophy, logic, aviation, history, WWII, classical music, singing, nature, walking/cycling, rowing

Why are you here? I have Aspergers and I wanted to be part of a community of people like me.

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

Favorite subjects: at school Latin, Greek and philosophy. Now I study Latin and political science.

Favorite music: Baroque music, opera, folk, country, chanson

Books: mostly about politics, philosophy, about autism, Latin literature

TV shows/Movies: I don't watch tv often but I liked Harry Potter.

Instrument: piano, and I sing classical

Do you like sports? Yes, I like to do rowing, running or cycling, and I like to watch football, hockey and ice skating as well

Family: currently living with my parents. Wish for the future is to live on my own but stay in touch with family members and friends

Clothing: I like a classical style like Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger. A lot of navy blue and polo shirts

How did you find this website? I can't remember!

Job: student

Plans for the future? Hopefully to become a speech writer or policy adviser for a politician and work in politics, or to become an editor or academic. Also to sing a lot, make a lot of music and enjoy nature.

Any comments? Thanks for this community, I really like it!

Feel free to send me a message if you are also from the Netherlands and like to get in touch or also if you just like to discuss a same interest

What is your first name? -Kristine

Age: -17

Location: -Pennsylvania

Hobbies and Interests: -I used to like reading and anime and manga and some other stuff, but depression took that away from me. I still like to sing now. I'm interested in food, I guess you could say. I like pandas, Hello Kitty, and Japanese culture.

Why are you here? -to be a part of a community where people can understand how I think

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): -I'm not really sure if I was diagnosed. I didn't take a test for it, but I've had mental health people say I was an Aspie.

Favorite subjects: -math

Year/Grade: -12

Favorite music: -J-pop/J-rock (which I liked pre-depression). I don't listen to much music now though (again, depression). If I did, I would have explored screamo.

Books: -The Lord of the Rings, Fullmetal Alchemist, Black Butler (not that I read things anymore other than books where the main characters have mental problems)

TV shows/Movies: -Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball

Instrument: -none, but I like to sing and I think I want to play bass guitar

Do you like sports? -definitely not

Family: -mom, dad (parents are divorced), older brother, two sisters (we're triplets)

Clothing: -skinny jeans and anime/cartoon related shirts, gloves

How did you find this website? -heard of it somewhere on the Internet, I guess

Job: -none

Plans for the future? -live with my mom until I'm at a mental state where I can start to really live life

Any comments? -At the moment, I'm heavily debating on whether I should dye my hair a pale spring green or not. I've never dyed my hair before. I bet this whole response made me sound like an idiot....

What is your first name?
Lindsey

Age: 19

Location: south-central PA

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, photography, nature, cats, mythology (Egyptian and Greek, especially), anime and manga, the German language.

Why are you here? Because I wanted to be a part of this community.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Around age 3.

Favorite subjects: English, German

Year/Grade: Sophomore (college)

Favorite music: Metal, Rock, Electronica, Celtic, New Age.

Books: Flowers for Algernon, The Jungle Book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Tailchaser's Song

TV shows/Movies: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planet of the Apes

Instrument: I played the trumpet when I was in middle school. I have a guitar and I want to learn how to play it.

Do you like sports?
Eh, sports don't really interest me.

Family: I live with my mom, step-dad, and younger sister. My sister also happens to be autistic. There's also my dad, but we're not on the best of terms...

Clothing: Usually T-shirts and jeans; maybe a sweatshirt if it's cold enough.

How did you find this website? Through some quotes on FSTDT. That didn't steer me away, though.

Job: None yet.

Plans for the future? After I finish my second year of community college, I'm transferring to Penn State Harrisburg. Over time, I'll get ready to live on my own, hopefully. (I'm afraid to, though.)

Any comments?
This is my first post here.

What is your first name? Can't say

Age: 27

Location: Midwest

Hobbies and Interests: Video games, gardening, camping, running, music

Why are you here? I have PDD-NOS

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 22

Favorite subjects: School sucks

Year/Grade: n/a

Favorite music: Metal, classic rock, trance, new age

Books: Discworld, At World's End, The Antichrist

TV shows/Movies: X-files, That 70's Show, Stranger Than Fiction, anime

Instrument: A neon green Jackson guitar

Do you like sports? No

Family: Live far away from them and they do not know about my ASD

Clothing: Casual, t-shirt and jeans

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

Job: Direct care staff for a group home

Plans for the future? I wish I knew how to make plans

Any comments?
Stevie Nicks is a great cure for loneliness

What is your first name?
Cecilia

Age: 14

Location: Great Britain

Hobbies and Interests: Obssesively watching tv series, reading novels, listening to music, writing, singingetc.

Why are you here?
I don't feel comfortable talking about having Asperger's with anyone in real life, so I thought maybe here I could open up and make some friends.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I was diagnosed a year ago by a school therapist, but my family doesn't know.

Favorite subjects: History and Maths

Year/Grade: Year 9

Favorite music: Alternative Rock and Pop Punk.

Books: I'll list authors instead, because books would take too long. Daphne du Maurier, Emily Brontë, Dick Wolf, Agatha Christie, Victor Hugo, to name a few.

TV shows/Movies: Firefly, Dollhouse, Castle, NCIS: Los Angeles, Bones, Pacific Rim, Lost, Argo, The X-Files.

Instrument: Piano.

Do you like sports?
I'm not overly fond of group sports, but I do enjoy swimming.

Family: Divorced parents. I live with my mum, stepfather, and twin sister. Other than my twin sister (who is also an Aspie) no one in my family knows that I have Asperger's.

Clothing: Casual and comfortable.

How did you find this website?
Google.

Job: N/A.

Plans for the future?
None, I'll just wait and see how it goes.

Any comments?
I'm a complete newbie who just joined, but this website seems to be everything I hoped it would be.

What is your first name?
Kate
Age:
51
Location:
California
Hobbies and Interests:
Reading
Why are you here?
Learn more about how to deal
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
officially 18 months ago
Favorite subjects:
Math, Science
Year/Grade:
trying to get back in school for another degree
Favorite music:
almost all, but rap
Books:
Yes - must be printed, not on a tablet
TV shows/Movies:

Instrument:

Do you like sports?
no
Family:
some problems here, had a major fight 30 years ago
Clothing:
Hippie
How did you find this website?
Search engine
Job:
Disabled Systems Analyst
Plans for the future?
trying to get healthier
Any comments?

What is your first name? Megan

Age: 16

Location: Scotland

Hobbies and Interests: Music, video games, movies and TV mostly

Why are you here? I have Aspergers and wanted to be part of a community where I'm understood

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): As of now, I'm still undiagnosed but people have noticed it for years

Favorite subjects: Music and Physics

Year/Grade: S5

Favorite music: Pretty much anything really

Books: Lord of the Rings, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games

TV shows/Movies: Supernatural, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy

Instrument: Currently play mainly Clarinet, Drums, Guitar and Bass

Do you like sports? I like watching them but not playing them really

Family: Mum, Dad and a younger brother with autism

Clothing: Leather jackets, Converse, skinny jeans and printed t-shirts

How did you find this website? A friend told me about it

Job: Training to be a voluntary radio presenter

Plans for the future? University and then hopefully a full time radio presenter

What is your first name? I'm known as Anne online.

Age: 18.

Location: United Kingdom.

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, writing, walking, music (singing/listening). Interests pertain mainly to humans (more from an anthropological and historical angle... certainly not a social one ), animals, music and technology.

Why are you here? I want to connect with others like me.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Asperger's (2002), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2011).

Favorite subjects: History, anthropology, zoology, geography.

Year/Grade: Ex-student.

Favorite music: I love The Beatles. Otherwise I mostly listen to jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime.

Books: Mainly nonfiction that has to do with my interests. I often reread David MacDonald's Encyclopedia of Mammals, The Beatles' Anthology and Gunther Schuller's series on the history of jazz.

TV shows/Movies: Emmerdale is an obsession and a guilty pleasure. Favourite movies include most of John Ford's filmography plus any documentary involving David Attenborough.

Instrument: I love the sound of the Irish bouzouki.

Do you like sports? No to watching and playing.

Family: Partner, no children.

Clothing: I always wear plaid shirts, boots and jeans.

How did you find this website? Recommendation.

Job: I work on a voluntary basis in a local cafe.

Plans for the future? Turn my house into a home, find a stable job I can manage, possible OU study, have a family of my own.

What is your first name? It's a secret

Age: 16

Location: my house

Hobbies and Interests: drawing, natural sciences, reading comics, animals, video games, karate

Why are you here? dunno I found the site and I joined

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): uhhh depends. At 6 with ADD and at 13 with ADD and Asperger's

Favorite subjects: science (except chemistry and biology), algebra, art

Year/Grade: 12th grade

Favorite music: I don't really care about the genre but I mostly listen to heavy metal

Books: Harry Potter, The Space Triology, Jules Verne's novels

TV shows/Movies: ATLA, LOK, Harry Potter, The Lord Of The Rings

Instrument: uhm a recorder

Do you like sports? I do not like most. But watching soccer on TV is fun at times. I also like martial arts but they don't count much as sports because they're more like lifestyles

Family: live with my parents and my brother. Mother is NT with dysthymia (part history of major depression), father has AS and ADD and brother has LFA

Clothing: baggy, comfortable clothes

How did you find this website? I guess I was looking for information about autism and found a thread

Job: don't work, I'm still in school

Plans for the future? Don't really have any

Any comments? Uhm nope

First Name: Christopher

Age: 17

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Hobbies and Interests: My interests include skyscraper aesthetics, urban planning, rapid transit/subway systems, helicopters, and some politics. My hobbies include video games (GTA, Halo and Battlefield), surfing the web, and listening to music. I really like music. I also like to romantacize cities to a certain extent, just think of all the lights, and 3/4ths of those lights mean someone is present at the light. I also just like the grandeur and scale of them, and the power they have.

Why are you here?: I am a diagnosed Aspie, but I've been feeling kind of lonely lately, so I decided to join this site to see if there was someone who shared similar interests.

When was I diagnosed: I was diagnosed with Asperger's in '99. I also believe I have SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder).

Favorite subjects: US Government, Business, economics, history since WWI.

Year/Grade: 12th Grade

Favorite music: I love 80's new wave and rock (AC/DC, Tears for Fears, some of Kenny Loggins, Guns and Roses, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, RUN-DMC) and I also enjoy some 60's rock (Jefferson Airplane, Sam Flax, some Beatles). I also enjoy alternative music (Foster the People, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, I've really been into The Protomen recently)

Books: Not many, typically architecture books with pictures. 1984 is a good book. I like books with a dystopian future and/or revolutionist themes.

TV Shows: Modern Marvels, Through the wormhole, Mythbusters, the Iron Man movies, Star Wars (not the Clone Wars crap), The Avengers. I like movies where there is a lot at stake and there is either a feeling of grandeur or desperation. I also like some film noir like Blade Runner.

Instrument: I don't play any.

Do you like sports?: Not really, though the occasional baseball game is fun to watch.

Family: I have an NT mom, dad, and sister. My great grandpa was an Aspie, but he passed away recently.

Clothing: T-shirt and jeans usually, but I like polo shirts a lot as well.

How did I find this site?: I was feeling kind of lonely, so I started searching online for groups to join.

Job: N/A

Plan for the future: Go to college, and start my own company. Move to San Francisco or New York. Maybe Chicago.

Any comments?: I'm looking forward to getting to know you all, and if you have the same interests that's awesome!

First Name: Dana

Age: 34

Location: Rural Northeast Missouri

Hobbies and Interests: Personal growth, love and relationships, climate change, waterfowl, roller derby, natural human childbirth

Why are you here?: Finding out I'm some kind of Aspie or Autie

When was I diagnosed: doctors shmoctors, self diagnosed yesterday

Favorite subjects: Personal growth, love and relationships, polyamory, god, yes, wow, infinity, etc.

Year/Grade: 2014

Favorite music: Open to much music, but in my past have obsessed about the music of Samuel Barber (especially), Shostakovitch, Stravinsky...guys like that. Also, Frank Zappa, Mr. Bungle, etc.

Books: too many to say, though I don't consider myself much of a reader

TV Shows: Nah

Instrument: Classical Flute

Do you like sports?: Roller Derby

Family: two men (both BAP's, I think) and four kids (At least two NT's)

Clothing: I call it Frumpy Chic. Clothes are for fun.

How did I find this site?: Just realized there is a reason that I am so socially odd. And I thought...might there be a place where I would actually make sense???

Job: I currently work in a residential care facility for the mentally ill, I am a mother, and I am preparing to march across the country with the Great March for Climate Action, starting in March

Plan for the future: We're all going down. Mass extinction throughout this century. I'm playing it by ear, lets say.

Any comments?: I love you.

First Name: Amanda

Age: 22

Location: Illinois, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, paranormal research, animals

Why are you here?: to somehow try to connect with other humans

When was I diagnosed: Self diagnosed with AS, previously diagnosed with ADHD, social anxiety disorder, and an "un-named fine motor disability" in elementary school. (so that's probably 1996-ish)

Favorite subjects: animal science, psychology, religion

Year/Grade: Graduated from college April 2013

Favorite music: I like almost everything,except I despise rap music.

Books: I love books. I actually kind of collect (or hoard) them. I'm currently into urban fantasies, paranormal romance, and dystopian novels. I am currently reading the Chicagoland Vampires series.

TV Shows: American Horror Story, Face Off, and every single paranormal docu-drama that's ever been on....(my favorite is Paranormal State)

Instrument: Used to play the viola in elementary school, but my instructor told me i sucked so i quit.

Do you like sports?: I couldn't play a sport to save my life. I like watching hockey though.

Family: Living with my fiance, 2 year old daughter, and our slew of pets.

Clothing: I wear scrubs 80% of the time and pj's the other 20%. I don't get out much.

How did I find this site?: I was looking for a forum with people like me...

Job: I work at an animal hospital as a vet tech (veterinary nurse)

Plan for the future: Actually take the exam to be certified in the job i went to college and got a degree for.

Any comments?: Nope...

First name: Caleb

Age: 25

Location: Australia, NSW

Interests: Music, Art, Metal detecting plus various others. Plus, also, that other thing that's really popular these days! You know, the thing!

Why I am here: My asperger's made me

Do I have to put down so much information? The prospect does not fill me with elation! See that rhymed! I'm a poet and I never would have thought so! Ok, I'm done with my cringeworthy attempts to highlight the quirky origionality of my personality! I did not just mean to rhyme then!

I play the drums! You can insult me! I like insults as compliments often make me feel weird.

I'll give more info later!

Age:
25
Location:
Orange County, California
Hobbies and Interests:
I watch alot of anime/cartoons, I watch some movies, I spent alot of time on forums, I enjoy learning new things.
I like to craft/make stuff, design things
I have a huge interest (obsession?) with firearms, I'm a gun collector and shooter. I study ballistics and gunsmithing.
I'm a huge Invader Zim fan. been a fan since 2001. Me & Zim, we have a bit too much in common to be a coincidence.
Why are you here?
Looking for friends, learn more about how to 'deal' with aspergers
When were you diagnosed?:
2001/2002
Favorite music:
I'm still exploring music, I found i like country most of the time
Books:
I read mostly IZ (Invader Zim) fanfic's now, haven't picked up a book in years. I really enjoyed harry potter and john grisham books.
TV shows/Movies:
Invader Zim, Ghost in the Shell, Detective Conan, Simpsons, Lupin 3rd, Highschool of the Dead
I like heist and crime movies. i find british crime films really funny, they use some really funny slang!
Do you like sports?
I like airsoft and I do some shooting sports. I would like to get into 3-gun someday.
How did you find this website?
I learned about it after posting over at psych forums. I like to hang out in the ASPD forum when I'm down. I've got some ASPD tendencies, not the anti-social part, but the other stuff.
It never occurred to me that, like anything else that exists, there is an aspergers forum.
Comments?
I act like two different people alot. it's like multiple personality disorder but I'm aware of them, it's like two people sharing one body & mind.
Online it's one personality, in-person its another. Online i tend to be more open and liberal to speak my mind, in person i'm alot more shy and asperger-like.