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Brendan
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27 Jan 2007, 7:46 pm

renaeden: Hi!

I'm from QLD. What did your search for Pyroluria turn up? The best place to look for info is the internet, although there have been one or two books written on the subject. It's relatively common, just little-known. I'm 99% sure that my Grandmother has it, but getting her to have a test etc etc would be another thing altogether as she's very stubborn lol :roll: My father and bro have it also; nobody on my mother's side has it, as far as I am aware. Ask your doctor for a "KP" or KryptoPyrrole urine test. I usually don't tell people I have it, as a lot of people are stupid and would say: "Pyro-what??" and would erroneously believe that it has something to do with lighting fires :D :roll:



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27 Jan 2007, 7:48 pm

omg. A NZ'er who likes australians....are you sure you have asperger's and not some other more strange affliction :wink: lol.



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27 Jan 2007, 7:52 pm

I'm an Aussie too. :)



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27 Jan 2007, 7:54 pm

BTW RedMage: I had to ask my bro what a Mage is, as I believed that it sounded medievil-ish, and he is an expert on all such matters. He informs me that a mage is a kind of sorcerer, and that a mage that is "white" or "red" (as in your dreams) is politically (or otherwise) aligned in a certain way. At least, I believe that is what he said; I can't exactly remember.

Also- do you find you have vivid dreams very often? I approach bed-time with a kind of excited trepidation; I find my dreams more exciting than my actual life, as well as infinitely more interesting. Although....no less confusing, but I think that comes with the AS territory :? lol.



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27 Jan 2007, 7:56 pm

Oh? Well, I must admit I am very surprised! I didn't realise that Invalice was in Australia; whereabouts is it, roughly?



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27 Jan 2007, 8:05 pm

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Oh? Well, I must admit I am very surprised! I didn't realise that Invalice was in Australia; whereabouts is it, roughly?

Ivalice isn't real mate! It's a location in the Final Fantasy universe!

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27 Jan 2007, 8:11 pm

Oh I see. Right there between "Linberry" and "Lesalia"......how absolutely ridiculous that I should not have known :lol: :wink: :roll:



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27 Jan 2007, 8:20 pm

Oh- something else I forgot to add to my original post. A thing that I do that everyone else (non-AS) thinks is bizarre: Inventing new words and assigning meanings to them. For instance, "Googer", meaning "person whom you do not know, for which you have fairly neutral feelings" (the Australian slang-equivalent would probably be "old-mate....for all you aussies out there :D )

From "Googer" (pronounced goo-jerr), is derived "el-goojo" (pronounced as if it is a spanish word: el-goo-jo), meaning "person whose identity is unkown to you, toward whome you have feelings bordering on contempt, and who is engaged in some sort of suspicious activity.

You would be surprised how often I need to use these words....people these days!! ! :roll:

So; does anyone else have a quirk similar to this one, or shall I continue to feel odd about it? 8O lol.

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27 Jan 2007, 10:19 pm

I made up the phrase 'wicked cool'. :)



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27 Jan 2007, 10:38 pm

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Hey mate. Good to see ya. I like Australians.


me too..and i envy y'all right now 'cause it's summer down under, and i hate the cold



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28 Jan 2007, 12:38 am

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I ALSO collect vinyl records -- I have over 100 in my collection!



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28 Jan 2007, 2:10 am

Believe me MrMeaner, you dont want to be in Australia when its 40 deg C :D

And welcome to WP Brendan, I'm 23.



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28 Jan 2007, 5:53 am

Hello Mr Meaner, Tennis Fantastic and Blue Bean! Welcome to my little welcome thread :P

(Tennis Fantastic will no doubt be watching Federer V Gonzales for some tips :D ) Go Federer.
*BTW, Federer looks exactly like me. In fact, I have been mistaken for him several times! :?

Blue Bean: under occupation, you have written "Book-Keeper". What does this particular position entail? As in, accounting book-keeping? Also, your profile indicates that you are unsure as to your diagnosis; is this still the case? (I would be very interested to hear from you on this matter :D )

Re: The Weather....for those that are interested, there has been very little rain in the southeastern corner of Queensland; the drought continues unabated :cry: The temperature of late has also been quite high.......not quite 40 though, thank god for that :lol: I have a close friend who is relocating to central Australia, so I feel quite sorry for her!

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28 Jan 2007, 5:56 am

Red Mage: your location is now noted as "South Australia"......just when I was getting used to the idea of Invalice!! ! :P :lol:



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28 Jan 2007, 6:08 am

Brendan wrote:
Hello everyone,

I just joined the site today (although I have "visited" in the past) and thought I'd post a message to say g'day to everyone. :-)

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome about 4 years ago. The reason that I was diagnosed so late is that I have another condition called Pyroluria, which shares some of the symptoms of AS. Pyroluria, for those that are interested, is a metabolic disorder that results in a shortage of B vitamins in the body. Apparently, many people with Austism-spectrum disorders have Pyroluria and don't know it.....does anybody else here have Pyroluria? I would be interested to know. :)

Things that I like doing:
-Photography
-Hiking
-listening to classical music
-Dreaming
-Studying people with other expressions of AS. I find AS fascinating.
-Collecting vinyl records
-Obsessively correcting errors in print publications. ie; the local paper. (the editor should be shot! lol :roll: )

Ummm... I can't think of anything else to write at the mo; I'll probably be thinking about it later and say "well geez, why didn't I write that down!".

So keep posted lol :wink:

Anyway; I'm really looking forward to talking to other people with AS....particularly young women of about my own age (not just in a romantic sense...although that would be great! I have never met a girl/woman with Asperger's Syndrome before, and so I am very intrigued by the prospect :D )


Bye all (for now).


Brendan



There are a fair few ausies here, G-Day mate me names Zombie AKA Lucas



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28 Jan 2007, 8:20 am

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renaeden: Hi!
I'm from QLD. What did your search for Pyroluria turn up?

I was in Queensland last year for about three months, in Toowoomba to be exact.

Yes, Polyuria is very interesting. I shall ask my doctor about it. One piece of information that I noticed was the advice to avoid fish oil. A lot of people with ADHD take fish oil, I wonder if they are inadvertently doing themselves harm.