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Nice to meet you, John and Thomas.

What is your first name? Heather

Age: 23

Location: Johnson City TN

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, thinking, listening to music, writing A LOT...

Why are you here? To meet other Aspies...social network...make cool friends...and to relieve my stress of being sick of NT people.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): February 07

Favorite subjects: History and English

Year/Grade: NA

Favorite music: 80s, folk

Books: "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" by Cherie Priest, "My Own Country" by Abraham Verghese....tons more.

TV shows/Movies: Cold Case

Instrument: Piano, clarinet, mellophone...haha all hail the band geek...

Do you like sports? I am from the South, so I do like football...

Family: A bunch of crazy NTs who sort of threw me out...not a good subject

Clothing: Regular...bordering on preppy

How did you find this website? Google and the gods were smiling on me...

Job: Retail. I hate every minute of it but unfortunately I must eat.

Plans for the future? Write novels, find love and make babies.

Any comments¿ Nice to meet you guys...I feel like I am finally at home!

What is your first name? Neal

Age: 19

Location: Limerick

Hobbies and Interests: Animation, music, games and internet

Why are you here? To make more friends and to discuss aspergers

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): about 5 or 6yrs ago

Favorite subjects: None

Year/Grade: End of first year after secondary school

Favorite music: All

Books: Manga and graphic novels

TV shows/Movies: TV:Firefly, Black Books, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, MOVIES:Beetlejuice, Serenity, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Accepted, August Rush and Ong Bak.

Instrument: Guitar

Do you like sports? Nope

Clothing: Comfortable stuff like baggy pants with my old school tie as a belt, thin long sleeve jumper with a baggy T-shirt over it and my 'Drugrug' over that, all with preferably dark colours.

How did you find this website? My brother heard about it and told me.

Job: Don't have a job, only goals in life.

Plans for the future? Make my own music, photos, designs, and animations, show them over the internet and sell them as prints/cds/dvds hopefully from a webite of my own that I will eventually get started up.

Any comments? Nothing is more important to me than the times I spend with friends .

Updated!


Real name: Prefer not to say, in case the government is monitoring me. I wouldn't be suprised after all the quote "radical beliefs" endquote i've posted on this forum. Not that i'm a bad person, I've jsut become very disillusioned with american politics and I have dark predictions about our future as a country...

Age: 17

Location: Tennessee... but i'm a gators fan... shhhh

Hobbies: Video Games, anime, and other imports from Japan

Why are you here: Somebody's gotta be "death to Autism Speaks" person here

When were you diagnosed: at age 5

Favorite Subject: Theatre Arts, although i don't plan on making a career out of it.. its just for fun.

Year: HS Junior

Books (manga not included) Harry Potter, Inheritance, and anything by Garth Nix

Manga: FLCL, Eureka seveN: Gravity Boys and Lifting Girl, Ruroni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist, Tsubasa

Music: Jrock/Jpop and Classic Rock

Anime (this is long): Eureka seveN, Bleach, Death Note, GITS: Stand Alone Complex, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Inuyasha, and (unofficialy) Code Lyoko.

Sports: Love watching, hate playing except with friends.

Instrument: I wish

Clothing: Comfort over style. If i wear a heavy jacket it's usually like Auron from FFX (one arm out of sleeve), or I tie it by the cords around my neck like a cape or around my waist like a kilt.

How did you find WP: Forgot. It's been a while...

Future Plans: Make a living as a computer engineer, mabye get into programming and make my own video games someday. Plus I have to write my memoirs, if anyone will read it .

Comments: I'm really a huggable person, if you're friendly to me. And god help you if you arent.

Nice to meet you too man

What is your first name? Anne

Age: 30's

Hobbies and Interests: Infectious diseases, law

Why are you here?: To practice interacting with other people.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 1987 (PDD, nos); 2007 (aspie)

Favorite music: classical

Books: textbooks, mysteries, historical fiction

TV shows/Movies: Lawrence of Arabia

Do you like sports? No

Family: Yes, spouse, child, dogs.

Clothing: Yes.

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Defense Contractor. Love them rules.

Plans for the future? Hang in there.

Any comments? If asked if you "think about suicide" know that they are generally asking if you think about doing it - not the concept. (My favorite psych question to flunk.)

Nice to meet you, Anne.

What is your first name? Joseph

Age: 17

Location: Maryland. We got crabs!

Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, Video Games, Cartoons, Art, Sleeping

Why are you here? Asperger's

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

Favorite subjects: Social Studies

Year/Grade: 12th grade. About to graduate

Favorite music: Mostly Trip-hop, House, Techno, and Downtempo

Books: 1984 and A Clockwork Orange

TV shows/Movies: Anything from Quentin Tarantino

Instrument: Do instruments of drawing count?

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: American Football

Family: Don't Ask

Clothing: Mostly screen tees and always blue jeans

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: You're kidding right?

Plans for the future? Graphic Designer

Nice to meet you, Joseph.

What is your first name? Wendy

Age: 48

Location: California

Hobbies and Interests: collecting and creating dragon art, writing stories in my head, (and occasionally writing them down) drawing, building a fictional world and writing books about it, unusual weather, meteorology, hiking and biking (when my joints aren't acting up) being on the internet, learning about Vanagon campers for the day I might own one, watching Dr. Who, watching a few anime series like Bleach and Rurouni Kenshin, road travel, military jets like the C-5 Galaxy and the F-100 Super Saber, airports, listening in on Air Traffic Control at local airports(via the internet), keeping up my mint condition '85 Grand Marquis, animals, zoology, geology, rock collecting, reptiles, camping, RVs, national parks, the desert, and so forth.

Why are you here? Wanted to find a place where I can be myself AND be accepted, and understood-- well, at least more often than not.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I don't remember exactly when, a few years back while my kids were getting treatment for special needs and accommodations at school, and I was getting treated for clinical depression, which cleared up once I understood why I am the way I am. Then I did some research on the net, ran the "I believe I have Asperger Syndrome" idea past the neuro-psychologist who was treating my son, though he also dealt with my daughter and myself, and after doing a survey, or something equivalent, he agreed, and wrote it in my profile.
Now that I've embraced my Aspieness, and gotten permanently away from people who were controlling and emotionally abusive, (like my mother, my ex husband, and my so called best friend), my depression is gone. I still have anxiety and such but I know it's biochemical as in hormonal imbalances on occasion, and I take a lot of nutritional supplements to alleviate the symptoms. I did very badly on medication, so I went a more holistic avenue, which is better for me.

Favorite subjects: History, art, creative writing, philosophy and religion, and some kinds of psychology.

Year/Grade: I graduated high school in 1978, on a naval base in Spain. Went to SUNY New Paltz two years, and then School of Visual Arts in NYC, for 2 years.

Favorite music: depending on my mood: Mozart, Japanese pop, ethnic, new age ambient, classic rock from the 60s-80s, and such.

Books: Tolkien's LotR, (read it countless times), Silmarillion, read twice and plan to read again, The Redwall series, Harry Potter series, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series (read Dragonquest when I was 13) various nonfiction books, depending on what I want to research for my novels, the Bible (daily, and I've read the entire thing, generally every year or so), and some commentaries/studies on the Bible.

TV shows/Movies: Project Runway, (reminds me of being in art school) Bleach, Dr. Who, Highlander(movies and TV series), Kung Fu (both old and new series) Deadliest Catch (TV series on Discovery channel, I think) Crocodile Hunter and related, (I MISS STEVE!! !) Nature, Masterpiece Theater, Upstairs Downstairs, Jane Austin BBC movies, Long Way Round, Long Way Down (Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman ride their motorcycles around the world) History Channel, some tech and car stuff, like Top Gear and Mythbusters... so much more to list, though I don't watch TV or movies very often, my attention span is sometimes too short)

Instrument: the vocal chords. I've been in chorus in school, and sing hymns during worship services. That's about it for me. I've always wanted to pay the violin, but my parents would no get me lessons or an instrument, because I likely would lose interest. The guitar hurt my fingers, and the piano lessons were confusing. I wanted to compose my own stuff, instead. I played the recorder ( a type of flute) for a while, in elementary school.

Do you like sports? I like watching Olympic downhill skiing and speed skaintg, some bicycle racing, vanagon racing on youtube, classical equestrian dressage. the occasional soccer game on TV. Sports I'd like to actually do again (if I weren't so creaky and financially poor), is mountain biking, horseback riding, sailing, and I would like to go back into martial arts. Otherwise, it's walking, and occasional short hikes. I have a cross country road bike and a downhill mountain bike, but haven't been up to riding much at all nowadays, due to Chronic Fatigue.

Family: my two grown up kids.

Clothing: whatever is comfortable and doesn't make me itch!

How did you find this website? I'd known about it for a while, but can't remember how I first found out about it. Probably through another list, or a search engine.

Job: I wish I had a steady job, but I'm on disability, and I'm just no employable. Too scatterbrained, and not enough energy. Occasionally still do freelance illustration, but I'm mostly working for myself, now, writing novels, and creating concept art for my worldbuilding.

Plans for the future? Getting my novels published, and illustrations done! Hopefully the first one will be completed and published by the end of this year.

Any comments? I really enjoy being here. There's a great variety of people from different places, different ages, and with different opinions, and I've been treated well, so far.

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Never assume you know what I'm thinking, just ask for clarification.
"Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal', must necessarily be 'inferior'. " -- Hans Asperger (1938)

What is your first name?
Seth

Age:
23

Location:
Newcastle, UK

Hobbies and Interests:
Always wanted to go sky diving and bunjee jumping but still haven't got around to doing it yet, spend most my time listening to music, watching movies or reading, this of course assumes that im not working which consumes most of my time.

Why are you here?
Suspect I may have aspergers and social anxiety disorder

When were you diagnosed?:
Currently trying to go through the GP for help, was termed as suspected / high probability of OCPD a few years ago but on my own research I think this is actually alot closer to OCD.

Favorite subjects:
Didn't really have any favourite subjects when i was in school, i did enjoy doing my own creative writing in literature tho and always thought of writing a novel but never go around to starting.

Year/Grade:
Left school, work full time as a web developer.

Favorite music:
Mostly rock music - Guns N' Roses, Queen, Green Day, Kill Hannah, Aerosmith, Papa Roach, Stone Sour, Linkin Park, Ash, Dredg, Lostprophets, SlipKnot, The Offspring, AFI, Billy Idol, People of Santiago, Aerosmith, Ghost of the Robot, James Blunt, Damien Rice, Death Cab For Cutie

Books:
Favourites are Angels and Demons and Deception Point by Dan Brown, When The Wind Blows by James Patterson and I've just started reading The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, the movie was awesome and the book's pretty good so far.

TV shows/Movies:
TV Shows - 24, Family Guy, Prison Break, Heroes, Red Dwarf, Skins, Firefly, Scrubs, Friends, Band of Brothers, House, Two and a Half Men

Movies - The Boondock Saints, Red Dawn, The Butterfly Effect, American Beauty, V For Vendetta, Crank, Donnie Darko, Interview With The Vampire, Ong Bak, The Warrior King, Young Guns, Severance, Predator, Aliens, Night Watch, Day Watch, Sniper, Smokin' Aces, War, Takedown, The Last Samurai, Wedding Crashers, Swordfish, Rocky

Instrument:
I can't play any instruments, i suck.

Do you like sports?
Not massively but I do like Ice Hockey, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks rule!

Family:
One sister who i never see, my niece who i love to bits but dont get to see much because we live really far away, mother and gran i also dont see much thanks to distance.

Clothing:
I generally wear clothes that fit. What how else do you answer this question? I dunno i wear jeans, combats and t-shirts.

How did you find this website?
I stumbled onto an article about aspergers syndrome on wikipedia and that pointed me here.

Job:
Web Developer that codes primarily in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.

Plans for the future?
No idea in honesty, always wanted to go in the army, long history of it in my family, not so worried about the socialising aspect of it as thats not what i wanted to do it for but considering I might have OCD i have to confirm that one way or another first as i cant join the army if i do, in which case i have no idea, probably continue in the job im in.

Any comments?
Cue mind going blank.

What is your first name? Jeff

Age:43

Location:AZ USA

Hobbies and Interests: computer games

Why are you here?I want to know more about myself by interaction with others like me.

When were you diagnosed?Undiagnosed. Miss diagnosed as Social anxiety Disorder , ADD HDAD
Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade: AA Degree

Favorite music: a Variety

Books: mostly textbooks

TV shows/Movies: none at the moment

Instrument: no

Do you like sports? no

Family: single

Clothing: Yes mostly

How did you find this website? I forget

Job:Cook

Plans for the future? Not sure

Any comments? Apparently I'm also an emu egg ;p

Age: 26

Location: The Netherlands

Hobbies and Interests: I have a lot of hobbies, but am mostly a dabbler in them, these are but a few: History, Warfare, Foreign Languages, Politics, Philosophy, Strength Training, Strategy Games (esp. 4X), Dictators, Computers, Sci-Fi, Anime, etc.

Why are you here? I have been diagnosed with both PDD-NOS and ADHD.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): around the age of 9 (ADHD) and 11 (PDD-NOS).

Favorite subjects: History and Languages. I am bilingual at the moment (Dutch and English). I'm considering learning Russian and perfecting my German.

Year/Grade: N/A

Favorite music: Classical, Industrial, Medieval, Choir, Ambient, Electronic, Military Music, Synthpop, Metal (some is good, some utterly bad).

Books: I do have quite an amount of books, but usually resort to the Internet for information.

Movies: Conan the Barbarian, HBO's Rome, Terminator Series, Gladiator, Star Wars, Akira, Devil Man, Der Untergang, Dune (both versions are good, but the Lynch version is the better one) James Bond (especially Moonraker and Octopussy), Kingdom of Heaven, Lilja4ever, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Gattaca, The Pianist, History Documentaries, too name but a few that cross my mind.

Instrument: None, i tried piano, but music is more for my ears than hands.

Do you like sports?

I don't like team sports personally. I do swim and pump iron, to stay in decent shape. Would like to pickup martial arts again though.

Family: Parents and a younger brother and sister. I am the oldest. None of them has AS or PDD, although I have 2 nephews that are certainly on the spectrum.

Clothing: Casual. Functionality should come first. I do like black suits, though.

How did you find this website?

I don't recall the date and time exactly, just surfed a bit around and lurked for a long time, finally deciding that registering can't hurt.

Job: sh***y to say at the least. But better than being unemployed for sure.

Plans for the future? Getting a formal education and a better job. Live to the fullest, be my best self. Having a beautiful and loving woman by my side in this struggle and beauty called life.

Any comments?