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What is your first name? Louis

Age: 30

Location: Rochester Minnesota

Hobbies and Interests: Computers, Genealogy, Amateur Radio, Driving/Traveling

Why are you here? Possible Aspersers Syndrome

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): No exact year currently know due to records being destroyed. I do have a paper from 9yo that suggests a PDD.

Favorite subjects: Software, Music

Year/Grade: If I bother to go back to school, Master's Level

Favorite music: Anything but Rap

Books: Too many to mention

TV shows/Movies: Little Man Tate

Instrument: Keyboard occasionally

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Bike Riding and swimming

Family: In house - Me, Myself, and I. Outside, I have a mother, step-father, step-mother, one full brother, one half-sister, and 3 half-brothers

Clothing: Business Casual at work, all black ouside of work

How did you find this website? Link from Wikipedia

Job: A cross between running my own software/computer business and special needs school bus driver.

Plans for the future? Mostly computer work.

Any comments? Nope.

Canton

What is your first name?

Age: 21

Location: Chicago

Hobbies and Interests: Internet, railroads and trains, dancing

Why are you here? I have Asperger's Syndrome

When were you diagnosed? Never, but according to this site, this is what I have. All symptoms match.

Favorite subjects: Programming classes

Year/Grade: Just finished college

Favorite music: Techno, dance, rock, *some* pop and top 40

Books: Not much of reader

TV shows/Movies: Simpons, Malcolm in the Middle, Seinfeld

Instrument: Can't play one to save my life.

Do you like sports? Dancing, if it counts as a sport. If not, then none.

Family: All NTs.

Clothing: Mostly brand-name casual, but enjoy wearing clubby, elegant, and business clothes outfits when the situation requires them.

How did you find this website? Googled 'Asperger'

Job: Currently work as a help desk. Have no problems doing it, despite the communication required.

Plans for the future? I want to move up to systems analyst.

Any comments? I really like this website. Keep up the good work.

Name: Matt

Age: 20

Location: Miami Fl

Hobbies and Interests: Art, Modern and Postmodern Literature, Music, Neurology, Virology, Emerging Technologies, Philosophy, Writing, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Physics, History, Film.

Why are you here?: Diagnosed with Aspergers.

When were you diagnosed?: Six months ago.

Favorite Subject: Literature/Philosophy/Sculpting/Biology

Year: College Sophomore

Favorite Music: Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Bush, Jane's Addiction, The Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Led Zepplin, Metallica, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Soundgarden, The Who, The White Stripes, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Smiths, Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bhrams, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Mingus, many others.

Favorite Books: The Trial, Neuromancer, Brave New World, 1984, Frankenstien, Choke, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Five, many many others.

TV Shows/Movies: Trainspotting, JFK, The Graduate, This is Spinal Tap, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, 8 1/2, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Brasco, Donnie Darko, Clerks, Dr. Strangelove, Soylent Green, Six String Samurai, Indiana Jones, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Army of Darkness, Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Berzerk.

Instrument: Electric Guitar

Sports: Running

Family: Mum, three cats (Boo, Boh, Sam).

Clothing: Baggy pants, T-Shirt, Sneakers/Sandals, Army surplus jacket.

How did you find this website: Google is your friend.

Job: Full time student, part time book slave at Barnes & Noble.

Plans for the future: Study medicine, meet someone tolerable who tolerates me, be happy, global domination, drink lots of coffee.

Any comments: Nope ^^

What is your first name? Shani

Age: so close to 17 it hurts

Location: Connecticut...until the end of April, then New York State

Hobbies and Interests: Art, computers, writing, reading, movies, indie music

Why are you here? pretty flippin' sure I've got AS

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

Favorite subjects: English, Art, Algebra

Year/Grade: 11th

Favorite music: Flaming Lips, The Polyphonic Spree, Ben Folds, The White Stripes, Grandaddy, Frou Frou. A lot more, but I'm lazy

Books: Catcher in the Rye, The God of Small Things, White Oleander

TV shows/Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Door in the Floor, Dawn of the Dead

Instrument: I can play my nose

Do you like sports? not even a little

Family: Mom, Dad, Brother. Parents divorced.

Clothing: Odd, but femme

How did you find this website? Google I believe

Job: hahaha no.

Plans for the future? to be the greatest person in the world

Any comments? I eat children

Do you have any good recipes that you'd like to share with the rest of us, Shani? Yum.

Just pluck 'em and stuff 'em and they're all ready to go......

You might be on to something there!

I'd might as well give this a whirl...


What is your first name? Ian.

Age: 18.

Location: My home state is Massachusetts but I go to college in New Hampshire. I think I'm originally from Neptune.

Hobbies and Interests: Game programming, listening to music, Dr Pepper, sleeping, writing the occasional short story.

Why are you here? I have AS.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Never formally diagnosed.

Favorite subjects: Programming, film.

Year/Grade: College freshman.

Favorite music: The Album Leaf, The Arcade Fire, Azure Ray, Broken Social Scene, Leslie Feist, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, Sigur Rós, Slint, The Talking Heads, many many others.

Books: Too many Stephen King books to name, Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Shade's Children by Garth Nix, anything by Ernest Hemingway, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury.

TV shows/Movies: I don't watch TV. For movies, my favorites are Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys, Pi, The Matrix, The Abyss, Terminator 2, Elephant, Saw, others I can't remember.

Instrument: Air guitar.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I play a bit of badminton during the summer and I used to play soccer.

Family: Mother and father, divorced, an older brother, all NTs.

Clothing: Tshirt and jeans pretty much all the time.

How did you find this website? Wikipedia.

Job: I fix computers.

Plans for the future? Becoming a writer would be nice, but I'll more likely end up a janitor.

Any comments? Maybe.

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Please don't eat me! I don't taste good, and I don't think you like the taste of Chloroseptic! Oh, wait; I'm an adolescent now.

Well, I'll take a crack at it.

What is your first name? Christopher

Age: 14 years. (too little for big, too big for little) Born 5/8/91.

Location: Joplin, Missouri, USA is my mail address says, but I go to school in Seneca, southeast of where I live. I live very near that little corner border between Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

Hobbies and Interests: Writing poetry and chapter books, Lemony Snicket and his merchandise, loom beading, Pokémon, Harry Potter, foreign and strange coin collecting, words, gaining knowledge, cryptology, acting, drawing.... stuff like that.

Why are you here? I have Asperger Syndrome and I want to make friends with Aspies around my age (they are few and far between, however, especially girls, so I must make due with what I have.) or not around my age.

When were you diagnosed? age 4, circa 1995. I didn't find out about it until later.

Favorite subjects: Choir, Gifted(which will end after 8th grade ) English, Speech/Drama/Debate, History.

Year/Grade: 8th grade next fall. I started Kindergarden late due to my lack of maturity.

Favorite music: classical, jazz (at a lively tempo and without trumpets) anything by Thomas Newman (made the music for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Finding Nemo, and Road to Perdition).

Books: A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Midwife's Apprentice, The Giver, Lisa and the Lacemaker, The Tale of Despereaux, The Harry Potter Series.

TV Shows/Movies: ZOOM, Spirited Away, The Simpsons(sometimes, if it's not gross), Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Incredibles, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, Who wants to be a Millionaire, Jeopardy, The Harry Potter movies....

Instruments: I play piano(since age 7) with great skill and I played clarinet in sixth grade with skill but stopped because I wanted to take other classes besides band, and have being singing VERY OFTEN ever since I developed "perfect pitch" in 1st grade.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones? Not particularly. I only like moderately strenuous sports like ice skating, swimming, stuff like that.

Immediate Family: A mom and a dad, a ten year old sister, a fish tank, and a cat, all are Neurotypical.

Clothing: I am very particular in what clothing I wear. It can't be itchy or rough or lumpy or anything else my skin dislikes. The description of what I like to wear is lengthy, so I'll just sum up what clothing I want to wear the most in four words: Either comfy or nothing.

How did you find this website? through a Google search.

Job: I don't qualify for a job yet.

Plans for the future: To finish school, attend college, get a job that I enjoy that pays and marry a wonderful wife, buy her a beautiful ring, have a piano debut at Carnegie Hall...

Any comments: I would like to make friends on this board. I have managed to make a few, and I hope to make more, but I am so self-centered that I have a bit of trouble with that. Well, I think I've said enough. Thank you for reading.

Chris

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Name: Shea

Age: 21

Location: Perth, Australia

Why am I here?: I'm an autie, studying my perseveration of autism.

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Music, Philosophy, Autism

When were you diagnosed?: Independent psychiatrist diagnosis when I was 3, and again by the Autistic Association when I was 12.

Favorite subjects: Mathematics, Accounting, Physics

Favorite music: Pop and dance music. Most anything with lyrics that I can reel off.
Bands: AQUA, Dandy Warhols, BeeGees, Blink 182, Ben Lee

Books: War in Heaven, Dark Moon, Ender's Game, Lightning, The Last Legends of Earth, The Dragon and the Unicorn, Centuries, Master of Whitestorm (lead character almost definately aspie)
Authors: Orson Scott Card, David Gemmell, Dean Koontz, David Zindell, Ian Irvine, Raymond Feist, David Eddings, Douglas Adams (42!), A A Attanasio.

TV shows/Movies: CSI, Stargate, Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Mutant X, Fight Club, Myth Busters, Queer as Folk, Spongebob, DragonBall Z

Instrument: Organ, would like to play the Shakuhachi

Do you like sports? Tennis, Squash

Family: My mother, 5 brothers and 2 sisters, all of whom are NT. My father has some AS traits, basically just social awkwardness.

Clothing: As little as possible. I wear the same clothes until I'm forced to throw them in the wash (parents, heh). Only 1 layer of clothing, several layers are tortuously uncomfortable. Cotton only.

How did you find this website? Link from Jypsy's website.

Job: Pizza driver

Plans for the future?: Looking for an opening into the administrative side of computer IT. Maybe go back to university and finish my Computer Science degree.

Name: Marie

Age: 15

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Why am I here?: I think I am an aspie, and I want to meet other people who are like me. I am afraid to ask to seek a clinical diagnosis because my mother will laugh at me.

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Writing...Learning (anything...I read textbooks).

When were you diagnosed?: I am undiagnosed as of this point...

Favorite subjects: Mathematics, Science, History, Languages

Favorite music: Anything...No preference

Bands: Linkin Park, Our Lady Peace, Green Day, The Black Eyed Peas

Books: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Chyrsalids, The Third Book in the Wheel of Time (can't remember its name), The Da Vinci Code, Matilda, The Body Theif
Authors: Ronald Dahl, Robert Jordan, Anne Rice

TV shows/Movies: The Simpsons, Family Guy, Law and Order (normal and SVU), any program about the ancient world or about science, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings (all three), Hero, Robots, Mulan, The Lion King, The Emperor's New Groove, Star Wars "One" and "Two" (I am still yet to see the original three...)

Instrument: Piano

Do you like sports? Yes...but I have some trouble with them...I love Basketball though

Family: Mom, Dad (very likely an apsie), sister, grandma (maternal...probable aspie)

Clothing: 'Hip Hop'...and anything comfortable...

How did you find this website? Wikipedia....I was looking up aspergers syndrome

Job: Paper delievery...

Plans for the future?: Camp Counsellor this summer...hopefully...Distant future: go to a university far away and only come home on holidays, get a PhD and become a professor in something...

What is your first name? Joanna

Age: 21

Location: Georgia, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Art, computers, philosophy, psychology

Why are you here? Perspective and exploration

Favorite subjects: Procedural shader programming

Year/Grade: Senior graduating college with a BFA in May

Favorite music: At the moment, Nightwish, but it varies

Books: Ender's Game, Fire in the Mist, Wolf's Bane, His Dark Materials, RanVan: Magic Nation

TV shows/Movies: LotR series, Spirited Away, What Dreams May Come, The Sixth Sense, The Messenger

Instrument: piano

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: rock climbing and laser tag, do they count?

Family: Parents, a brother, the usual

Clothing: Anything in fire colors or dark green

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Freelance computer art

Plans for the future? Break into the gaming industry as a 3D modeler or texture artist

Welcome to WrongPlanet pyraxis!

I used to play laser tag all the time when I was a teenager. I was fairly good at it.

Oh, really? We should get a couple of teams together and have a match sometime...