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eek well I'm a bit behind... but hopin to go to UWA to get eventually into astrobiology... curtains another option... coz i dont wanna move interstate but if i have to i might
oh yeah! pheonixkitten they are excellent books
(i assume your talkin bout the name? lol)

What is your first name? Tristan

Age: 22

Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Internet, reading, computer games, going out for walks.

Why are you here? Offically High Functioning Autism, unoffically maybe Aspergers and hyperlexia.

When were you diagnosed? Age 2

Favorite subjects: none right now

Year/Grade: 1st Year

Favorite music: Mostly Classical, but anything expect recent pop.

Books:

TV shows/Movies: Earlier seasons of The Simpsons and South Park

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I not into sports.

Family: My mother who lives in Tasmania, My Father who lives with me, a 18 year old half sister and 20 year old sister in Melbourne, plus two half brothers 9 and 7 who live with me and my father.

Clothing: Casual, I usually refer to the dummies at the local Target store to see what clothes I should get.

How did you find this website? Just stumbled upon it I guess

Job: Currently a University Student, if that counts as a job.

Plans for the future? Getting a reasonably paying job.

What is your first name? Keith

Age: 48

Location: UTAH

Hobbies and Interests: Foster Parenting, Children's Advocacy, Scouting.

Why are you here? Severe ADHD and AS.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Knew about it as a child, but not confirmed till last year.

Favorite subjects: Hebrew, Botany.

Year/Grade: Yeah - I wish!

Favorite music: Techno - any highly complex music with strong patterns - don't like the random stuff!

Books: Anything on Parenting Special Needs Children.
TV shows/Movies: I gave up TV to spend more time on the 'puter/Anything my kids want to see.

Instrument: Tried the trombone, guitar, and banjo w/o much success.

Do you like sports? Not really - but i support the kids we get who love them

Family: Wife, 4 adult kids, one adopted aspie, one foster ODD/ADHD kid, and more on the way!

Clothing: Tee Shirts and Shorts - my p-doc says i dress like a child - who cares!?
How did you find this website? Sorry I can't remember that far back.

Job: Raising a family not to be NT .

Plans for the future? Help as many kids as I can.

Any comments? I wish I had found this site sooner!

Keith: I'm in awe of you! I only hope that I can make a difference like that some day!

Some people get their kicks jumping out of airplanes! I get mine spending my days - and nights- with kids who scream profanties, hit, kick, throw things, and threaten my life! That is until they've been with me a couple months. They can get to me occasionally, but I can take most anythinig now without giving them back the anger they show me. Nothing puts a disturbed kid into shock more than answering their "I'm gonna kill you," with an "I love you."
Keith

Ah dear, I can imagine! I thought you were saying you didn't get kicks out of it anymore after a few months!

What is your first name? Michaela

Age: 18

Location: Germany

Hobbies and Interests: Internet, music (hearing and making)

Why are you here? to read more about asperger-syndrome

When were you diagnosed?: I have no diagnosis

Favorite subjects: Chemistry, sometimes math

Year/Grade: 12

Favorite music: all sorts of, except hip hop and techno

Books: at present mostly specialised books (e.g. medicine)

TV shows/Movies: Sarah and Marc in love

Instrument: pipe, keyboard

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I hate sports, except swimming

Family: I live here with my mother and my 12-years old sister

Clothing: the main thing is,that it is convenient

How did you find this website? link in another forum

Job: I`m still at school

Plans for the future? oooh, I don`t really know

What is your first name? Shawn

Age: 37

Location: North Carolina

Hobbies and Interests: Making mix cds, reading, music geek

Why are you here? I have undiagnosed Asperger's

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

Favorite music: All manner of psychedelic music, drone, metal, pop, hip-hop, indie rock, you name it.

Books-<i>Happiness is a Choice</i> by Barry Neil Kaufman,

TV Shows/Movies- CSI, Arrested Development, Gilmore Girls, The Simpsons, Royal Tenenbaums, Pulp Fiction, Ghost World

Sports- A lapsed baseball fan (don't have time to follow it anymore), ACC basketball

Family: Married with four kids ages 2 to 9. Our two boys are both autistic. Our oldest, Ray, is more severe than our 3 year old, Joe.

How did you find this website?- Through a thread on ilxor.com

Job: Grocery manager at Weaver Street Market. It's a natural foods co-op in Carrboro, North Carolina

Plans for the future?- Working on instituting methods from the Option Institute in our work with our boys and building on my career at the Market.

Comments-It's been about 5 1/2 years since we had Ray diagnosed with Autism and it turned our world upside down, to say the least. I finally feel like we've been dealing with things a lot more effectively over the last year and am feeling really positive about the direction that things are going for my family.


Family: A mom and a dad. I have a 13 year old sister that isn't autistic or Asperger's.

Clothing: Mostly casual. I don't like anything that is too fancy or trendy. I still keep my wardrobe updated though

How did you find this website? Nuttdan gave me a link to wrongplanet.net

Job: Don't have one yet. I'm planning to work at the library.

Plans for the future? I want to be an author

Any comments? Nothing much to say. I enjoy this website very much and I hope all of you find this icebreaker fun.
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Well shonty, fun as your icebreaker is...

What is your first name? Dan

Age: 35

Location: Indiana

Hobbies and Interests: Gaming, Woodworking, and Auto Racing

Why are you here? I have diagnosed Asperger's

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

Favorite music: 70 and 80's rock

Books-Anything fantasy and si-fi

TV Shows/Movies- All kinds of movies, but really enjoy the special effects and like to understand how they do alot of the effects. Not much of a tv watcher, but enjoy House and Law and Order's

Sports- Nascar and NFL

Family: Divorced with 2 sons. The oldest is 9 and also has Aspergers

How did you find this website?- A lot of searching on the web

Job: Operations Manager

Plans for the future?- Continuing to discover my past and how my aspergers has made me who I am today and understand how to move forward.

What is your first name? beth

Age: 18

Location: england

Hobbies and Interests: reading, writing, playing renaissance music and the oboe

Why are you here? two people at least in my family have aspergers, and i have social problems and am struggling with self harm and general depression that could partly be as a result of my bizare upbringing, id like people to share my stories with



Favorite music: grunge, also mike oldfield

Books-rushdie, fairy tales, poetry of pretty much any sort

TV Shows/Movies- um not really interested

Sports-i do weight training

Family: all crazy or with aspergers. im the "normal" one

How did you find this website?- wonderful conformist google
Job: none..
Plans for the future?- starting a degree in literature and mythology in october. after that who knows.

This is my first post! Here are my answers:

First Name: Matt

Age: 22

Location: Near London, UK

Hobbies and Interests:
Music (most genres), Internet, Video Games (not so much now), Psychology, Dance, Acting, Movies, Martial Arts (to list a few!)

Reason I'm here: Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome

When I was diagnosed: Age 14 c 1997

Favourite Subjects (if I was still in school they would be):
Performing Arts, Science, Psychology, Social Studies, History

Year/Grade: N/A

Favourite Music: I really can't answer that one!

Books: Whatever is anywhere near me with no Internet in sight.

TV Shows/Movies: Red Dwarf, Reservoir Dogs

Instrument: Play a little piano but nothing else

Sports?: Yes please! Football (soccer), cricket (atm), tennis, boxing, hockey

Family: Immediate family is mum and dad, a sister and a brother (he has cerebral palsy)

Clothing: Casual, trendy, sometimes smart

How I found the site: Through a search for a site like this with Google

Job: Unemployed

Plans for future:
To perhaps become an actor, failing that live a peaceful but fun life with a great family. I'd probably travel the world before I get that going though!

Comments:
I also suffer from chronic fatigue, which I'm trying to get sorted out with an exercise program.

What is your first name? Aimee

Age: 34

Location: California

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Writing, Video games, crafts

Why are you here? I'm not sure if I have Asperger's, but I do believe I have some symptoms, and having read over the forums a little, I feel a kinship with many of you

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

Favorite subjects: I think my favorite subject is psychology, though I majored in biology in college
Year/Grade: 10th grade next fall

Favorite music: I listen to almost anything, no real favorite, though I'm not crazy about rap

Books: I read a lot my favorite genres are Fantasy and Mysteries. Some of my favorites are Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, and Terry Brooks. I also like Dean Koontz a lot. I am also a fan of the X-Men Comicbooks

TV shows/Movies: Currently I don't have a favorite, but some of my past favorites included: X-Files, Buffy, and Angel

Instrument: I don't play any instruments,though I always wanted to play the piano when I was young

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Not too into sports. I do love gymnastics and dancing (despite being uncoordinated I enjoyed taking classes whe I was younger. I do like running, but I never was on a team or anything

Family: I have a Dad and Stepmom, and a Mom and Stepdad. Plus I have a full brother (30-years-old, no signs of Asperger's as far as I can tell), and I have a 17-year-old half sister (through Dad) who is very good at social situations so I don't think she has signs of Asperger's, but she did hand flap when she was little (with absolutely no other autistic-like behavior). I also have a husband, and my brother is married with a 1 year-old daughter and another baby on the way. As far as anyone having Asperger's in my family, my grandfather on my father's side will talk your ear off on a narrow field of topic (mostly his view of religion/philosophy of life) I have heard practically the same conversation come out of his mouth for my entire life. He also was very intelligent and was skipped two grades, but then flunked one. I'm thinking he seems to have some Asperger-like tendencies.

Clothing: I wear mostly jeans and T-shirts or turtle necks. I used to like wearing dresses when I was young, now I mostly don't like to dress up more because I could stand to lose 20 lbs, but also for comfort reasons.

How did you find this website? I found it while doing searches on Asperger's Syndrome (which I originally heard about from my husband)

Job: Currently I am a QC Analyst at a biotech company, before that I was a research associate at another biotech comp. Basically, both of these are lab positions. However, I would like to change careers and have taken some classes on copyediting, with the hopes to eventually work freelance from home, but I have been afraid to get started other than taking the few classes.

Plans for the future? See above, I'd also like to eventually write fantasy novels.

Any comments? I have really enjoyed looking through the forums, I just finally got the nerve to join this weekend and this is my first post

What is your first name? Chelsea

Age: 13, 14 on september 21

Location: miamisburg,ohio

Hobbies and Interests: Internet,school

Why are you here? I have aspergers

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): febuary 2005

Favorite subjects: math,science

Year/Grade:8th grade

Favorite music: almost everything

Books: a lot

TV shows/Movies: a lot

Instrument: none

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Icolor guard(twirling flags, riffles and sabre's) there is a website for the colorguard group im in: www.miamisburgwinterguards.org

Family: i live with my mom and 11 yr old brother

Clothing:anything

How did you find this website? my mom

Job: Don't have one yet. ill find one when i turn 14

Plans for the future? idk?

Any comments? i like this website

What is your first name? Krish

Age: 17

Location: So'ton, England

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, writing, drawing

Why are you here? I may have some degree of Asperger's

Favorite subjects: Hate them all.

Year/Grade: Year 13

Favorite music: Moby, Mike oldfield, anything else I like the sound of.

Books: Garth Nix, Philip Reeve, Philip Pullman, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett. Etc Etc

TV shows/Movies: Favourite film would be Spirited Away. Don't watch much TV.

Instrument: I can sort of whistle.

Do you like sports? Paintball and hockey. Only ones I'm good at.

Family: Two relatively normal brothers.

Clothing: T-shirt and jeans. Always. Even in winter.

How did you find this website? Google.

Job: I do some volunteer work, but nothing that pays. Yet.

Plans for the future? Unsure at the moment. Want to do something in writing.

What is your first name? David

Age: 23

Location: MA

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, Art, Movies, Metal, Sex, Dinosaurs, Newts, RPGs, Religion, Literature

Why are you here? For my own personal amusement.

When were you diagnosed? I wasn't, though I suspect that I have AS.

Favorite subjects: Fiction Writing

Year/Grade: College Graduate

Favorite music: Heavy Metal. More specifically power/thrash/death/black metal. More specifically Blind Guardian, Helloween, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Death, Nile, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Manowar, Opeth, Mastodon, Finntroll, White Skull etc.

I also love classical music. Beethoven, Mozart, Holst, etc. I just don't know quite as much about it. That, and movie soundtracks.

Books: I mostly read non-fiction books. Of the fiction I admire: The Lord of the Rings, Watership Down, Raptor Red, Monument, The Secret Agent, Deliverance, Dante's Divine Comedy, Catcher in the Rye, and the works of Gene Wolfe and Roger Zelazny.

TV shows/Movies: I don't watch TV, but I have many favorite movies:

Deliverance, Dawn of the Dead (1978), King Kong (1933), Robocop, The Road Warrior, Wizards, Heavy Traffic, Being John Malcovich, Adaptation, Last Exit to Brooklyn, La Cabeza de Vaca, The Last Temptation of Christ, El Topo, Aliens, Ninja Scroll, Akira, La Femme Nikita, Rob Roy, A Clockwork Orange, Chinatown, Amadeus, Princess Mononoke, Evil Dead 2, Ed Wood, Donnie Darko, Conan the Barbarian, LoTR, etc.

Instrument: I used to play the trombone in High School

Do you like sports? No.

Family: My parents, whom I currently live with but hopefully not for long, and my two olders sisters, both of whom are out of the house.

Clothing: Usually a t.shirt an jeans. I like metal shirts, but wear other shirts of personal significance, like on that says "Love Sucks", and another that has dinosaurs on it.

How did you find this website? My girlfriend showed it to me.

Job: A crappy supermarket job that gives me 6 hours a week. I'm trying to apply for a job at the library.

Plans for the future? I want to write fiction. Preferably fantasy novels and short stories that eschew traditional genre cliches, or at least believe that they are really happening.