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What is your first name? Tiffany

Age: 44

Location: Saumur, France

Hobbies and Interests: Arts, crafts, science, animals, history, literature...

Why are you here? Starting the diagnostic process, and looking to learn more about people's experiences. I enjoy being part of an online community.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): HSP/smarty pants age 7, anxiety/depression from age 12, OCD age 24, CPTSD age 25, ADHD age 35...

Favorite subjects: Horses, English history 1066 - WWI, the origins of words, making stuff.

Year/Grade:

Favorite music: anything from 1940s to 2000.

Books: The Count of Montecristo, Jane Eyre

TV shows/Movies: The Big Bang Theory (did Sheldon and his peers help anyone else self-diagnose???)

Instrument: Voice, touch of the piano

Do you like sports? Only if a four legged creature is doing most of the work.

Family: Weirdos. All of them. Don't have one of my own so as not to propagate the folly.

Clothing: Anything soft and comfy.

How did you find this website? Google search

Job: Voice artist

Plans for the future? Learning to live day by day ;p

Any comments? Happy to be here and also feeling a little shy.

Welcome, Tiff!

What do you like to make?

What is your first name? Michael

Age: 30

Location: UK

Hobbies and Interests: Video Games, Reading, Documentaries, History and a fair few other things

Why are you here? Hoping to chat to people and become better at chatting to people . Maybe there is more to it. I'm not too sure yet.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I must have been around 5. Diagnosed with Semantic Pragmatic Disorder, which I think is now High-functioning ASD.

Favorite music: Country music

Books: 1984, Brave New World and hopefully many more .

TV shows/Movies: Lawrence of Arabia and Fringe

Instrument: Would love to but absolutely lack the talent.

Do you like sports? Used to be more into it, but have fallen off the past few years.

Family: No children, no partner.

Clothing: Pretty old fashioned. Jeans, leather jacket, checked shirt etc.

How did you find this website? Recommended from another forum. Still new to the whole forum business .

Job: Work In Healthcare

Plans for the future? Hopefully give my family a good life and live new experiences.

Any comments?

I hope everyone is doing well.

What is your first name? Aoife. (It's pronounced like ee-fah)

Age: 22, turning 23 in September.

Location: Ireland

Hobbies and Interests: Learning languages, eurovision, watching documentaries, colouring, music

Why are you here? To learn and interact with others on the spectrum.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I was diagnosed with autism level 1 and ADHD (inattentive type) back in May 2023.

Favorite subjects: History and Geography.

Year/Grade: I'm starting college over again after dropping out due to burnout and untreated ADHD. I'll be studying Early childhood and education so I can pursue my dream in becoming an early years educatior.

Favorite music: I don't have a specific favourite genre of music since it kinda depends on my mood. My playlists are all over the place lol

Books: I don't read much anymore. I'd love to get back into it though.

TV shows/Movies: The classics are the best

Instrument: I used to play piano

Do you like sports? Not my thing.

Family: Yes, I do in fact have a family

Clothing: I tend to dress casually. I like wearing hoodies, jeans, leggings, etc... I mostly dress out of comfort.

How did you find this website? Was looking up information about autism and somehow ended up here hehe.

Job: Currently working as a cashier. Studying to become a preschool teacher in the future.

Plans for the future? To finish my degree in Early childhood and education. Get a job at a preschool. Honestly not much else.

Any comments? I think I said about everything.

Name: Dylan

Age: 24

Location: Ireland

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, Mixing & Producing Music, playing with and training my dog, making lists of goals and random trivia.

Why are you here?: to hopefully make a friend.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Age 4 - Diagnosed Autistic with ADHD.

Favorite subjects: Music, Philosophy,

Year/Grade:

Favorite music: The Beatles & Michael Jackson

Books: Lots of Music Books I won't list them all!, Epictetus Discourses and Selected Writings, Marcus Aurelius Meditations

TV shows/Movies: Inside Out and Inside Out 2, Taxi Driver, The Godfather 1 and 2, Pinnochio

Instrument: Piano, Singing, Trumpet and Guitar.

Do you like sports?: I don't have friends to play with but if I did I'd love to play tennis, I also like running and swimming and hiking.

Family: 5 siblings 2 sisters 3 brothers.

Clothing: Fashion sense is lacking, wear whatever is comfortable but hope to change this.

How did you find this website?: researching autism forum on a google search.

Job: Unemployed.

Plans for the future?: Studying Music Production 3rd year in college, struggling at the moment with technical modules but very passionate about my course, I'm in music instrument lessons too and I have a home built studio and hope to bridge all of this together to make a music album and a career as a music producer once I have my own apartment away from home.

Any comments?

Name: Jeff

Age: 41

Location: Michigan, US

Hobbies and Interests: Karaoke, a philosophy I daydream about regarding spectrums everywhere (and I just self-diagnosed this year.. d’oh!), Reddit, Quora, Fatherhood (one 6 year old son), rock hounding for crystals, Veteran

Why are you here?: meet friends, ask for help with an iPhone app that my friend and I created for neurodivergent people related to sharing special interests between each other and building that elusive social support structure.

When were you diagnosed? Age 21 Bipolar Type 1, Age 25 ADHD, Age 41 self-diagnosed autism level 1

Favorite subjects: Physics, math, philosophy, Religion, and Linguistics as they relate to spectrums.

Year/Grade: Bachelors in Business 2009

Favorite music: 90s country: George Strait, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, the Chicks, Shania Twain, Toby Keith, Leanne Rhimes, Leanne Womack, Other favorites: Selena Quintanilla, Sia, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Matchbox 20, The Ronettes, Spice Girls, the Chipmunks, Mariah Carey

Books: Self Help

TV shows/Movies: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Lost

Instrument: Voice

Do you like sports?: Yes. Play baseball, soccer, frisbee, minigolf. Watch football, basketball, Olympics, and World Cup.

I will be going to a World Cup game in 2026. Ok, I don’t have tickets yet, but it will happen if I keep telling myself that.

Family: Oldest of 4, 2 bros and 1 sister

Clothing: Army/gym shorts, various t-shirts with button-up in the evening. Ball cap when I’m not feeling the whole hair gel thing. Clean casual overall.

How did you find this website?: Quora

Job: Non-technical app developer, retired military (medical)

Plans for the future?
I am steady working on this app. I want people with special interests to be able to create microblogs in a private social media outlet where they can decide whether or not to share those blogs with everyone in their friends list.

Further, we can make any number of these blogs for our own collection of favorite content or we can exchange our blogs with other people to see theirs. The app is in testing and it looks really great so far.

PM me if you want me to invite you when we launch it for iPhone and visionpro.

Any comments?
I like making friends no matter where they are from. I have a best friend that I exchange audio recordings on WhatsApp fairly often and I like that a lot.

I want to know about your special interest to whatever degree you want to share. I don’t really like talking about my philosophy stuff, but since I feel like this is a place where I can express myself judgment free, I am absolutely obsessed with spectrums and navigating them with my imagination. Ok, you got me on the subject, I will share an example:

Imagine a volleyball. Select a characteristic of the ball. You can choose texture, size, material type, shape, how inflated it is, color, or any attribute you can think of for this ball. I am choosing color for this example, specifically the colors of the rainbow, and I am imagining the ball in each of the colors as I navigate the color spectrum. You can do that with any of the other attributes too. It means you can design the ball to your liking in your imagination.

So what right? Wow, your favorite color volleyball. Imagine if you have been obsessing about redesigning your material realities for nearly 20 years and then AI image generation comes out and you can prompt each of these things into visual existence. I have been ecstatic about this.

It will not be long until you can design and order a manufactured item straight from the AI’s Amazon account, which means it will not be too long that I can design everything around me.

And, if that doesn’t happen, I can still count on some tech company creating this ability in VR and a likely exoskeleton to go with it so I can interact with virtual things.

I can play a game of one on one volleyball against you someday though we are in our own living rooms. I hope you like the color blue.

What is your first name? Dustin

Age:39

Location: Western Pennsylvania, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Writing my life story, Watching YouTube...Still discovering

Why are you here? Mutual Connection and Support

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):1998 at the age of 13

Favorite subjects:Maps, Phone Books, Information, Local History, Sanitation

Favorite music: I will listen to anything but country and heavy metal /rap. Linkin Park is my ultimate favorite.

Books: Local History

TV shows/Movies: Don't really watch TV, but I do like clips from the Simpsons and Family Guy.

Instrument:
None
Do you like sports? None

Family:
Blended Family of three sisters and a brother, numerous nephews, nieces, great nephews/nieces, and a loving supportive mom and dad.
Clothing: As long as its not offensive, comfortbable and fits. I am more into denim jeans /shorts and slip ons

How did you find this website? My therapist told me about it as many of their clients uses it.

Job: Part time Satisfaction interviewer for recipents of my county's behavioral health medicaid services

Plans for the future? Gain my in-person friend network and connect more overall.

Any comments?

What is your first name?: Liz

Age: Turning 21 in 15 days

Location: Chicago

Hobbies and Interests: Space, neuroscience, medicine, biology, anything science related really, video games, Star Wars, painting, archery, hiking, rocks, and strength training

Why are you here?: To (hopefully) meet and get to know some other autistic people

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2021 at age 18

Favorite subjects: Neuroscience, astrophysics, philosophy, ethics

Year/Grade: College Sophomore

Favorite music: Anything except country and christian/religious music. (no hate, I just don't like how it sounds)

Books: Fiction: Science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Nonfiction: Science-related books, history books, and philosophy texts

TV shows/Movies: Star Wars everything, scavengers reign (so good), rick and morty, smiling friends, bobs burgers, idk I'm not a huge movie person

Instrument: Piano kinda; hoping to get better at some point

Do you like sports?: Not a huge fan or anything, but I like to watch women's soccer occasionally

Family: Yes

Clothing: Butchy

How did you find this website?: Googled "autistic forums" and this came up

Job: Student

Plans for the future?: Medical school and a golden retriever

Any comments?: I'd really like to make some autistic friends around my age, so if anyone else is looking for the same thing and is interested, feel free to reach out.
Also, I'm kinda bad with computers and this is my first time using a forum like this, so apologies if I post this wrong or something. I don't really know how this works yet.

What is your first name? Mateusz

Age: 14, 15 in December

Location: Poland

Hobbies and Interests: Football, history, Marvel, Star Wars.
Why are you here? IDK I just was bored and decided to try it

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): When I was 12

Favorite subjects: History, English and Geography

Year/Grade: 10th in September

Favorite music: Rap

Books: Mystery, history and adventure books. And comics.

TV shows/Movies: The suite life of Zack&Cody, anything with Marvel and Star Wars.

Instrument: Drums

Do you like sports? Yes!

Family: Yes.

Clothing: I just wear clothes from kid's section. Random clothes that I like.

How did you find this website? Googled: interesting forums

Job: Student

Plans for the future? Studying law

Any comments? No. Have a good day.

What is your first name? PETER
Age: 49 (50 NEXT MONTH)

Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM (USA)

Hobbies and Interests: AGRICULTURE, PERMACULTURE, ACTIVISM, PROPAGANDA, FLOATING

Why are you here? SEEKING COMMUNITY AND ADVICE, POSSIBLE FRIENDSHIPS FOR IRL

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

Favorite subjects: B.A. IN AMERICAN STUDIES (POLY-SCI), HISTORY, ENGLISH/ READING , SOCIAL STUDIES, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, TV, RADIO, PODCAST

Year/Grade: 1992

Favorite music: GARAGE ROCK

Books: PREFER AUDIOBOOKS... MOST GENRES, ESPECIALLY MYSTERY/THRILLER... ALSO PODCAST

TV shows/Movies: WIZARD OF OZ

Instrument: UKULELE, GUITAR, HARMONICA, VOICE, HAND DRUM, KEYS... WOULD LIKE TO BE IN A BAND

Do you like sports? NO OPINION

Family: SINGLE (DIVORCED), PARENTS STILL ALIVE & TOGETHER, I LIVE WITH 2 HOUSEMATES

Clothing: PREFER THRIFT 2ND HAND

How did you find this website? POSSIBLY RADIO SHOW (THIS AMERICAN LIFE) ?

Job: I HATE WORK. EDUCATION IS NOT REALLY WORKING FOR ME

Plans for the future? TRAVEL, WANT TO LIVE BY THE SEA

Any comments? I MAINLY STRUGGLE WITH CONVERSATION... UNDERSTANDING OTHERS. IDEALLY I WILL LEARN ASL AND POSSIBLY INTERACT WITH DEAF/ HARD OF HEARING COMMUNITY

What is your first name?
Seth

Age: 29

Location: Savannah Georgia

Hobbies and Interests: Art and storybook creation, Videogames, Trading card games, Fantasy, Ancient and Medieval history and weaponry, Deep life topics, and people's story's in general.

Why are you here?:
To find people like myself that can relate to feeling like you're from another world.

When were you diagnosed?
I'll be getting one, but I have to wait a year.

Favorite subjects: History, Art, and Psychology

Year/Grade: Graduated Technical College with an associates degree in Business Management

Favorite music: Gaming Music, Movie Music, Classical; pretty much anything that's more instrumental than vocals

Books: Parsifal's Page, Knight Templars, Bible (from time to time)

TV shows/Movies: Once Upon a Time, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Avengers Infinity War, Thor Ragnarok, Sleeping Beauty, Toy Story series (1-3), Samurai Jack, Danny Phantom, and The Last Airbender.

Do you like sports? Nope.

How did you find this website?
Searching for a Asperger's Community

Job: Grocery Replenishment Specialist at Publix

Plans for the future?
Too many failures for me to know currently

Name: Halo (I was born with Roger, but worked in a room full of soldiers with walkie talkies)

Age: 62

Location: Musoria (look it up and see under "name")

Hobbies and Interests: Drone construction, ham radio, alpaca breeding, fireworking, archery

Why are you here?: make friends, hope that baring my soul can help anyone in here. I have a crap tonne of unique experience

When were you diagnosed? Age 25 Ehlers Danloss III, Age 39 self-diagnosed Asperger's, Age 62 offered confirmation but refused

Favorite subjects: sorry... Have to put sex in #1, Electronics, Coding, Pyrotechnics, Russian and Chinese weaponry,

Year/Grade: ummm the last was Certificate IV in multimedia

Favorite music: I'm a bit of a thrash puppy, so
Sum41, Lillingtons, Teenage Bottlerocket, *The Meanies, *Cosmic Psychos, Blink, Bad Religion, Chixdiggit, *Exploding White Mice, Lagwagon, Gimme Gimmes, Pulley, *Splatterheads,
*The Eastern Dark, Offspring, Rezillos, Veruca Salt, L7

* = Australian...if you're into the rest, you ought to check them put
Books: Sci fi

TV shows/Movies: Sci fi

Instrument: Bass guitar

Do you like sports?: Doing... Archery, Watching.... women's soccer, women's AFL

Family: Only 2 brothers remaining, 1 up and 1 down and a niece and nephew

Clothing: zip up work boots, T shirt and jeans or army pants (Swedish are my favourite)
Leather Bike jacket

How did you find this website?: Search engine

Job: Defence contractor/Alpaca breeder

Plans for the future? Sell up and move to a beach, travel (my partner's idea... I'd prefer to die on this farm).

Any comments? Seriously... You probably don't want to know. Check the Adult Autism issues section if you have to.

What is your first name? Mayor

Age: 57

Location: AZ

Hobbies and Interests: None at the moment

Why are you here? In my pantry hiding from conflict

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): At age 46

Favorite subjects: Theoretical Physics and other physical sciences, math, language, history

Year/Grade: Seriously? Is this site only for people in Grade School?

Favorite music: Taylor

Books: Don't read much

TV shows/Movies: They call me Sheldon from Big Bang Theory

Instrument: Guitar, Piano, Saxophone

Do you like sports? Kayaking, Hiking, Climbing, American Football

Family: Estranged parents are dead, estranged sister might as well be

Clothing: I wear shorts and t-shirt

How did you find this website? Many hours of frustrated conversations with AI yielded this site

Job: Software Engineer

Plans for the future? Get out of this room... I found a dojo right down the street

Any comments? Not sure of the point of this.

What is your first name?
Shelby

Age:
49

Location:
Western Canada

Hobbies and Interests:
Music, arts & crafts, old TV shows, the Summer and Winter Olympics. I'm a lover of Germany and German things and people.

Why are you here?
Because I don't like social media

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
At the age of 5

Favorite subjects:
None. I'm no longer in school

Year/Grade:
I graduated college in 1996

Favorite music:
Schlager music and the music of the 60s British Invasion. The Kinks are my favourite band.

Books:
Do Archie comics count?

TV shows/Movies:
Hogan's Heroes and The Monkees.

Instrument:
The kambala

Do you like sports?
The Summer and Winter Olympics and real football where you score goals instead of touchdowns.

Family:

There's my mum, dad and I. My sister is married and I have a brother in law and a niece. I also have a mother and father in law. I also have two older male cousins that I hardly ever see these days.

Clothing:
Lose and comfortable. Black, red and yellow. Blue and green

How did you find this website?
In an news article

Job:
Flea market vendor

Plans for the future?
Get a part-time job as a greeter somewhere.

Any comments?
Go Duetchsland!

What is your first name? Keith

Age: 47

Location: US, Florida

Hobbies and Interests: Precision, Creation, Organization, Problem Solving, Leadership

Why are you here? I don't know.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2024

Favorite subjects: Technology, Business

Year/Grade: Masters

Favorite music: 80s

Books: Technical Manuals

TV shows/Movies: The Accountant

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? No

Family: Yes

Clothing: Preferably not.

How did you find this website? ChatGPT

Job: Geospatial Software and Systems Engineer

Plans for the future? Overlord Supreme Ruler of Plant Earth, but in a nice way.

Any comments? Every person in the world has mental disorder. Those who don't, have a mental illness. I don't believe autism is a disorder. I see it as the application of coping skills to an every changing landscape of varying mental and emotional characteristics. A person experiences autism. It's not something a person has, and it doesn't define them. In some estimation every person experiences it. Some of us just experience it more often and or more significantly. And only that person can fully appreciate the experience as it is ineffably beyond words to convey.

Age: 13

Location: America

Hobbies and interests: playing bass, reading, drawing, typology

Why are you here?: ADHD, c-ptsd

When were you diagnosed: ADHD, 12 still in the process of getting diagnosed with c-ptsd

Favorite subjects: social studies

Grade: 8th

Favorite music: shoegaze

Books: fyodor Dostoevsky, dazai osamu, franz kafka, inio asano

Tv shows/movies: shameless, the end of the f**king world, sex and the city, neon genesis evangelion, nana, saiki k, death note

Instrument: bass guitar

Do you like sports?: no

Family: mom with adhd and gad, dad with bipolar and possibly autism or adhd, 7 year old brother with adhd, 11 year old brother with npd, intermittent explosive disorder, and odd (highly masking)

Clothing: vintage 90s/2000s clothes

How did you find this website?: I searched something up and found a forum from this website

Job: middle school student

Any plans for the future?: no unfortunately

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ADHD and c-ptsd