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Nice to meet you, Jonathan.

What is your first name? Francisco

Age: 19

Location: Caguas, PR

Hobbies and Interests: Languages, politics, cities, nature, music, history, literature, hmmm... mostly everything except numbers and maths.

Why are you here? I might be an aspie

When were you diagnosed? Some people have suspected in the past, now I suspect myself

Favorite subjects: Everything except Maths Fav class: French

Year/Grade: 2nd Year in College

Favorite music: Everything, I don't know how to describe what I like

Books: History, history, history, anything that can be nicely read... whatever that means

TV shows/Movies: I don't have any specific interest

Instrument: Guitar

Do you like sports? Not to play them, but I love watching tennis and football (soccer)

Family: Yes I have a father, a mother and 6 siblings... nephews too.

Clothing: Comfortable and light clothing

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Right now none

Plans for the future? Finish with college and maybe continue studying and move someplace nice

Any comments? None for the moment

What is your first name?
Simon

Age:
20

Location:
At the moment Portsmouth, UK at university but have lived all over

Hobbies and Interests:
Politics, travel ,watching TV, eating, the internet

Why are you here?
Looked an interesting website to meet people like

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
1998

Favorite subjects:
Politics

Year/Grade:
2nd year of university

Favorite music:
Don't listen to much music

Books:
Audacity of Hope, Hillary Clinton's memior (forget the name)
TV shows/Movies:

Instrument:
N/A

Do you like sports?
NO!

Family:
Parents split up

Clothing:
Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, levi's, Banana Republic

How did you find this website?
Google

Job:
None, but I should really get one otherwise my Resume will be crap when I leave college
Plans for the future?

Any comments?

What is your first name? André

Age: 29

Location: Leuven, Belgium

Hobbies and Interests: Mathematics, computing, macro-economics, artificial inteligence, medicine, psycology, cooking, movies, music, travel, women.

Why are you here? Diagnosed with ASD (which type is under investigation. Probably AS). Commorbities: migraines, atypical depression/bipolar II, ligamentous laxity, gifted (math/computing).

When were you diagnosed? Yesterday. (29 years old)

Favorite subjects: Anything that can involve complex models.

Year/Grade: Bs. in Electrical Engineering

Favorite music: Classical (romantic/modern), Bossa Nova / MPB, Rock.

Books: Freakonomics

TV shows/Movies: Charlie Kauffman, Woody Allen, etc...

Instrument: none.

Do you like sports? I swim, but I really like sports to play with friends, like basket ball

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: Manager for a multinational company.

Plans for the future? Stop working and travel more. (more a dream than a plan)

Any comments? I want to learn more about what does it mean to have an autistic disorder, why not everybody has all symptoms, what changes in the thinking process between an aspie and a NT... And I also want to meet people in Belgium to chat about that. Everybody is welcome to mail me or add me on MSN.

Name: Brian

Age: 47

Location: Syd, Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Gym

Why are you here? Information and news

When were you diagnosed: Early 2008

Favorite subjects: Modern History

Year/Grade: lol

Favorite music: Nirvana, 50s rock & roll, some classical

Books: learning difficulties- Seeing Behavioural Optomertrist-eye tracking & processing problem

TV shows/Movies: Farscape, Stargate SG1, House, Two & half men, Stars Wars epics, Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, Forrest Gump, Lord of the Rings, Unforgiven(Clint Eastwood)

Instrument: Nil

Do you like sports? Yes

Family: Wife & 2 adult children

Clothing: Designer clothes

How did you find this website? Recommended by a person from another autism site

Job: Police Force until injured on duty.

Plans for the future? Very confused at the moment.

What is your first name? Agata

Age: 18

Location: East Anglia

Hobbies and Interests: Language, of course; and Music&Arts. I suck at science!

Why are you here? To "conversate"

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I am during the process of diagnosis right now

Favorite subjects: ? Biology+Geography?

Year/Grade: A Levels (equivalent) in linguistic (bi-langual)

Favorite music: Rock, Alternative, Indie

Books: Phantoms; The Pariah; Fear Street Series; Through The Eyes Of Aliens

Movies: Star Wars (all six episodes); The Name Of The Rose; Pulp Fiction; Deja Vu; Flight Plan; King Arthur; Don Juan De Marco; Pan's Labirynth...and more

TV shows: Lost; Hex; ReGenesis; Samurai 7; South Park; Happy Tree Frieds; Jackass; Viva La Bam

Instrument: Are You kidding?

Do you like sports? Are You kidding?

Family: I hate my family

Clothing: Only black and white and grey clothes

How did you find this website? I can't remember

Job: Escapist

Plans for the future? No plans. I am going nowhere.

Any comments? No comments. I'm not that inteligent.

What is your first name? Shane

Age: 17

Location: Around Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Baking, computers, video games

Why are you here? I like people who I can relate to

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Diagnosed with panic disorder in 2002 and possibility of apsergers in 2004 (left psych after that diagnosis)

Favorite subjects: Math, programming, science

Year/Grade: Grd 11

Favorite music: Nine Inch Nails, mostly

Books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll), and Anthem (Any Rand)

TV shows/Movies: House MD, South park, Simspons, Family Guy, Depserate Housewives

Instrument: Can't play

Do you like sports? No; I like splashing in the water though...

Family: Mom and dad. Half sister from my dad (never met her)

Clothing: Black pants, t-shirt, hoodie, and flipflops/converse

How did you find this website?

Job: None

Plans for the future? I'm not a psychic

Any comments? BLEH!

What is your first name?
-- Dino.

Age:
-- 32.

Location:
--southeast Norway, where the forests are deep
and easy to hide and play in.

Hobbies and Interests:
--oh god...to much to start listing things -
the big ones; nature/plants/animals.

Why are you here?
--Many good people writing many good posts here -
i`m here to supply the counterpart to that.
nah, j/k - i hope.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
-- Soon i hope, still trying to get it done, found out a little late.

Favorite subjects:
-- I`m very random.

Year/Grade:
--...em..what..? if you mean school,
i dropped out of it way to soon.

Favorite music:
-- well..alot of different things. Some claim i have
a "weird" thing with music going on.

Books:
--Yes please.

TV shows/Movies:
Documentaries and such - but i`m very random
sometimes.

Instrument:
--Give it to me and leave me alone for a while
and i`ll learn it. But you have to leave me alone.

Do you like sports?
--Some of them, like drunken boxing, boxing,
running, swimming- i like to move. But get
that fotball away from me dammit! I dont
handle grown men running around playing
with their balls.

Family:
--One mom, one sister, one dead dad.

Clothing:
--Oh god yes, thats a must, i`m so shy.
Preferably something black or blue.
No logos or stripes or shiny things.

How did you find this website?
--Google search.

Job:
--Yes - and i made it myself, after working hard and long.

Plans for the future?
--Ideal, dreamy plans: Continue my work,
meet someone special, blahblahblah, happily
ever after. Realisitic plans: Try to find motivation
to continue to work and get used to being alone.

Any comments?
--No, not really.. not much to say.

What is your first name?

Andrew

Age:

20

Location:

UK

Hobbies and Interests:

Going out with friends, Arts and Crafts, Long walks

Why are you here?

I need a fourm where I can fit in among others and speak my mind as much as I would like to without the fear of being bullied, this looks like the place for me. I also feel that it could help me with any issues related to my aspergers when I need it, plus if theres something I can help with I'll try. Confidence boost is a bonus

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

4 Years old

Favorite subjects:

Many kinds

Year/Grade:

1st year on National Diploma in uniformed public services, I've also done the first diploma.

Favorite music:

Listen to almost anything

Books:

Dune

TV shows/Movies:

Simpsons, south park, road wars, casualty, the bill, random history programes, scrapheap challenge, channel 4 news, Hollyoaks, Dispatches, Howls moving castle, Laputa castle in the sky, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Robocop 1 to 3, Akira, Ghost in the shell, the ring (japanese version), Battle royale, city of god, Can't remember anymore than those.

Instrument:

None

Do you like sports?

Basketball, low ropes course.

Family:

Father and mother (divorced), living with my father and a brother.

Clothing:

Always black clothes, black trench coat, army boots. (If you you're wondering that I am either a goth or an emo, i'm not ><. I get this alot)

How did you find this website?

Searched for aspergers via internet, atfer carefully looking around this website I feel that it could be very useful to me and to help out others if needs be.

Job:

None at this current time, I do have plans to join the special constables (voluntary police officers) while on my course.

Plans for the future?

Joining the police force as a full time PSCO (Police Communtiy Support Officer) and then on to Police Constable, helping out others for my town.

Any comments?

I'm very shy at times, but with the way the communtiy here looks I think we'll get along just fine ^^

What is your first name? Edward, but only my grandfather calls me that.

Age: 19

Location: In bed, in my brothers room, in Wellington, in New Zealand.

Hobbies and Interests: Sports, writing, being outdoors, excercise, trouble

Why are you here? Well, when a mummy and a daddy love each other veeeeeeery much... Kidding, its cos I ahve ADHD.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2002, when I was 13.

Favorite subjects: English, P.E., Science

Year/Grade: 2nd year of university

Favorite music: Rock!

Books: Stuff by Rumer Godden or Bernard Beckett.

TV shows/Movies: Prison Break, Pulp Sport, the Matrix, Requiem for a Dream.

Instrument: My guitar and I make sweet sweet sounds. And I sing.

Do you like sports? Love them. All of them. Even american football.

Family: One brother, on sister, both older. A mum.

Clothing: I wear it! Jean and t-shirts and hoodies.

How did you find this website? An Aspie blog pointed the way

Job: Sorting high school exams for fun and profit. Only not much fun and not enough profit.

Plans for the future? I want to finish my degree in English and become a journalist. Or write a book. Or something.

Any comments? People in glass houses should get dressed with the lights off.

What is your first name? Greg

Age: 17

Location: ottawa canada

Hobbies and Interests: anime video games skateboading bmxing hnaging out with freinds manga girls eating chllin

Why are you here? I have AS and OCD!

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 8 years old feb 2000
Favorite subjects: At High School; gym ,drama , computior design,Year/Grade: grade 12
Favorite music: linkin park, sum 41 , three days grace, 50 cent, justin timbelake , timbaland, 360 maifia, lil ty, usher, chris brown, tkaing bakc sunday , ill scarlet, less then jake, escape the fate, mest ,mxpx, ameciean head chsrge syistem of a down , the down, senses fail ,silverstein, cute is hwat we aim for, ice t ,vanlela ice ,bakc hiilside gangstas, tupuac, emneim, ledz ulpin , pinkfllyod ,neil young ,nirvanna, soundgardan, sonic youth, the whoo ,genieaes, peral jam ,green day, the offspring ,eve 6 ,avanged 7 fold ,slipknot , no effects, disturbed ,kilswitch engage, drowning pool, metlcia, slayer ,iron madien ,mega death ,billy talent, foo figheters , deepb purple , black sabath, aerosmith ,acdc, gun and roses an of cousre the beetles

books: manga and lots of it
TV shows/Movies: . CSI, Criminal Intent, Law and Order, SVU.
lost, 24 ,temitnnaot sarh conour choclies as well as the teminaotrr movies matrix trilogy star wars lodrd of the rings and anime such as one piece, naruto ,bleach, pokemon, yugioh/ 5d /gx /r, jo jo jo's bizare adventure,shaman king death note, mar , prince of tenies, eye sheld 21 ,slum dunk, claymore, hunter x hunter, busou renkin, sonic x, zleda shows, star wars anime clone wars or something, final fnastaty mvoies , dragon quest show, dragon ball trilogy ,blue dragon ,zatch bell, bo bo bo bo bo, fairey tial, reborn, gin tama , rosiraro + vnapire, inuyahsa, full metal almcismit, gjost in the shell series and of cousrs my fave horror ones hellsing , berzerk and black lagoon































































Instrument: air guitar lol

Do you like sports? yes love socar , baseball , bmxing and skateboading

Family: Mom and dad, nad no siblings
Clothing: skate nad bmx clothes such as circa, quicksilver, dc, ripzone ,sims, billabong, hurley, west 49, fox , rider biking and the ood time I wil war prepy clothes like hollister and aeropostle and amercan eagle.

How did you find this website? google.

Job: none

Plans for the future? flim maker
Any comments? Yes

...rock you like a hurricane


What is your first name? Mason

Age: 30

Location: Manitowoc, WI

Hobbies and Interests: philosophy, anthropology, psychology, physics, electronics, recreation

Why are you here? I JUST figured out that I have Asperger's. Now I'm exploring it.

When were you diagnosed? I haven't been "officially" diagnosed. But the information I found on wikipedia a few days ago could almost entirely compose my "about me" section.

Favorite subjects: Science, Economics, accounting

Year/Grade: some college

Favorite music: Rock!

Books: Books about my interests and favorite subjects. I've recently read a few books by Chuck Palinuk. They were awesome!

TV shows/Movies: I only watch public television, or cartoons. I'm very particualr about movies too.

Instrument: not very musical.

Do you like sports? I don't like/follow any sports or teams.

Family: Mom, Dad, 1 Brother, 1 Sister, wife, daughter, in-laws- the usual.

Clothing: I tend to over-dress just a bit, nothing unusual though.

How did you find this website? I think it was on Wikipedia.

Job: Drafter/Designer. I work for a company that makes Laboratory furniture.

Plans for the future? moving and switching careers

Any comments? I've been so much more at peace with my symptoms since discovering what they are called when grouped together as a whole. It has also given me something to concentate on and funnel lots of energy into.

What is your first name? Caitlin

Age: 18

Location: New Mexico

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, dancing, and working special needs students at my school.

Why are you here? Because I highly suspect that I have AS. I am 90% sure.

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

Favorite subjects: History. Government.

Year/Grade: 12.

Favorite music: I listen to almost everything. I really dig on new wave right now. I love Depeche Mode and Gary Numan. Right now, I really enjoy TV on the Radio.

Books: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Anything by Stephen King. Grapes of Wrath by john Steinbeck. Basically anything with some sort of historical context.

TV shows/Movies: X-Files. (tv show and movies) Charlie Chaplin short films and movies. David Lynch films.

Instrument: Vocal chords.

Do you like sports? Baseball is nice.

Family: One step-dad. One mother. No siblings. My biological father is a magician who I haven't heard from since '94.

Clothing: is optional. jk. I prefer Edwardian style clothes. But on myself, I just throw on whatever looks good at that moment.

How did you find this website? I researched Asperger's and there was a link to this site.

Job: Intern with special needs program at my school.

Plans for the future? I plan on being a special-ed. teacher. High school level.

Any comments? No, thank you.

What is your first name? Amelia
Age: 20
Location: Michigan
Hobbies and Interests: Watching surfing, reading, spending time with family
Why are you here: I need to be with people who are suffering from the same thing i am
When were you diagnosed: third grade
Favorite subjects: History
Year/Grade: Freshman in college
Favorite music: Frank Sinarta
Books: Just One More Thin by Peter Falk, anything John Grisham
Instrument: Piano
Tv shows/Movies: M*A*S*H*, Walker Texas Ranger
Family: One mom one dad
Clothing: Anything i'm comfortable in
How did you find this website: Search engine
Job: Student
Plans for the future: I plan on becoming a vet tech
Any comments? No

What is your first name? Jen

Age: 22

Location: Connecticut

Hobbies and Interests: Figure Skating, stretched ears, dreadlocks, monkeys, languages

Why are you here? Almost certain I have Asperger's. I also have Lyme Disease and Diabetes and am having problems coping. I've tried reaching out to people with just Lyme, or just Diabetes and none seem to deal with what I deal with. I've always felt there was something else there and the moment I read about Asperger's it fit.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I haven't been officially diagnosed.

Favorite music: Sigur Ros, M83, The Arcade Fire, Tv on the Radio, Animal Collective

Books: Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar Series

TV shows/Movies: Reboot, Touching Evil, Doctor Who, British Mysteries, Japanese Dramas, Farscape

Instrument: French Horn

Job: Haven't been able to work.

Plans for the future? Get better and go to college or work.

What is your first name? Charlie

Age: 19

Location: Leeds, UK

Hobbies and Interests: (must I list them all?) My interests right now are law and philosophy

Why are you here? Because I'm an Aspie (duh)

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): roughly a couple of months ago, if that.

Favorite subjects: Philosophy and Law

Year/Grade: I'm in my 3rd year of A levels in a sixth form college.

Favorite music: Symphonic metal/power metal and classical mostly. I also love soundtracks and world music.

Books: Philosophy books, books about mental health, law, writing, etc

TV shows/Movies: Casualty, the news, outnumbered. Films= Lion King, Batman, A beautiful Mind, Sweeny Todd

Instrument: I wish I knew how to play the piano I like singing and my own voice... but only in private... I'd hate to be compared to a drowning cat!

Do you like sports? no! lol

Family: mother, father, sister, bro-in-law, dog and cat ... oh and me.

Clothing:whateve's comfortable. Jeans and T shirt mostly

How did you find this website? Can't really remember.. must have googled 'Aspie forums' or something

Job: Part time on checkouts in a supermarket (it's awful)

Plans for the future? to become a legal Academic or solicitor

Any comments? not really.