Questions about you
What is your first name? Ali
Age: 19
Location: Glasogw scotland
Hobbies and Interests: insense sticks, oreintal music. musicals, everything gothic, friends, hollyoaks, fairies, acting, singing, dancing, interior design and chinese culture
Why are you here? to meet other ppl wiv aspergers and who think like me.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): aspergers
Favorite subjects: drama
Year/Grade: college
Favorite music: anything mostly musicals
Books: plays of any kinda
TV shows/Movies: hollyoaks, skins, simpsons, family guy, big bang theory, friends, four brothers, dr who, harry potter.
Instrument: dont play any.
Do you like sports? is jogging a sport?
Family: mum, brothers, sister, cousin, aunts, uncles and my two best friends are family. Matt and Steven
Clothing: gothic and hoodies wiv funky designs.
How did you find this website? typed in aspergers help on google.
Job: unemployed student lol
Plans for the future? to become a drama teacher.
Any comments
I am Ann-a 47-yr old single mom with AS, with an adult daughter and a teen son, both with AS. My 6 yr old nephew is AS. It runs in our family!
I live in North Carolina. I am a retired nurse; I became unable to continue my choosen pofessional because of many reasons.
I love to sew and bead. I have 5 cats. I am wiccan.
Age: Late teens
Location: England
Hobbies and Interests: Many things, they include Politics, Mathematics and Computing on the more academic front. Outside of academia I like film, video games, rowing, science documentaries and so on...
Why are you here? Nihilism.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Before school.
Favorite subjects: Maths, Politics
Year/Grade: Degree level
Favorite music: Couldn't really say.
TV shows/Movies: Quality Television when I get a chance. I am up for most movies outside of Disney and its ilk.
Instrument: Nope
Do you like sports? Certain sports. Not that they are recognised as such.
Family:
Clothing:
How did you find this website? By aeroplane
Job: State sponsored binge drinker.
Plans for the future? Nope.
Any comments? Nope.
simmerskan
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: 14 Jan 2009
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Posts: 43
Location: westcoast of southern Sweden
What is your first name? Sanna
Age: Soon 21
Location: Kalmar, Sweden
Hobbies and Interests: Swimming, read books and poetry, culture
Why are you here? To meet other people with the same diagnosis
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I believe I was 7 years old, but my parents suspected that something was "wrong" when I was 1 and hadn´t yet learned to walk.
Favorite subjects: That must be the one I study now - Sociology
Year/Grade: second year at university
Favorite music: Coldplay, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dixie Chicks, Eldkvarn, Eric Clapton, Chris Rea, Johnny Cash, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Peter LeMarc, Richard Hawley etc.
Books: I have many favourite books, but two of them are "Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs" by Linda Olsson and "A Window For One Year" by John Irving
TV shows/Movies: "House", "Tell Me You Love Me", "My Neighbor Totoro", Howl´s Moving Castle, Brokeback Montain and the Return.
Instrument: I played cello, but I did not think I developed musically so I ended it.
Do you like sports? Yes, swimming
Family: My mum and dad, two brothers and one sister
Clothing: shirts, jeans, t-shirt...normal clothing, I think
How did you find this website? On Wikipedia
Job: I haven´t any job yet, but hopefully I´ve got one after I graduated university
Plans for the future? Get a job, I´m not that kind of person who makes magnificent plans.
Any comments? Uhmm...No.
What is your first name? Not telling
Age: 17
Location: Somewhere in the U.S. surrounded by a lot of nothing.
Hobbies and Interests: Currently just Biology, Genetics, Japanese language, and Medicine
Why are you here? Mostly to learn but maybe to make friends…
When were you diagnosed? Not diagnosed but I’ve spent over a year looking for a reason why I don’t have aspergers (not because I think it’s a bad thing but because it seems too easy an explanation) so far everything I’ve read indicates I’m an aspie.
Year/Grade: College Sophomore
Favorite Music: I have no idea because I just listen to whatever sounds good and 90% of the time I have no idea what it’s called.
Books: Battlefield Earth, Ringworld, old college textbooks (only if they are related to my interests though), and numerous manga series…
TV shows/Movies: Serenity (movie), star wars, startrek, nova, animal planet (I think that’s what its called anyways), and history channel.
Instrument: None.
Do you like sports? Watching sports no. Playing sports… sometimes.
Family: Mom, Dad, one younger sister and one younger brother. Whether any of them have Aspergers or not… I don’t know.
Clothing: t-shirt, jeans, anything simple. I hate shopping.
How did you find this website? My parents found it…
Job: Full time student
Plans for the future? Medical school hopefully and at least a real boyfriend.
Any comments? Nope
What is your first name? Erich
Age: 15
Location: Somewhere in North America
Hobbies and Interests: videogames, science, computers, reading, and other things of an intellectual nature
Why are you here? This place is a community for people like me, and I used to be a member on here anyway (I forgot my username and password for my other account...which I believe happened almost a year ago maybe? =\ )
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): In 2004 or 2005 if I remember correctly
Favorite subjects: Science, mathematics, and world history
Year/Grade: 10th grade
Favorite music: Heavy Metal, Classical, Trance
Books: Red Storm Rising, the Dune series (at least, the books that I've read)
TV shows/Movies: The Office, Chuck, Good Eats, Saving Private Ryan.
Instrument: Euphonium
Do you like sports? I like to watch hockey, I don't like to play any sports though
Family: Mother, two cats, a dog, sister, two nephews, grandparents, brother-in-law
Clothing: Jeans along with a t-shirt that has a videogame reference or something witty/sarcastic on the front. A sweater and khaki pants or jeans on Sundays.
How did you find this website? Wikipedia
Job: Getting A's in high school
Plans for the future? Go to college, hopefully succeed socially, get a job that's science/computer related. Basically just try to succeed in life I suppose.
Any comments? I used to be a member (as stated previously in this post) but I forgot my username and password. I've been lurking since I forgot it. I look forward to being on the site again.
What is your first name? Tawanyh, Taw for short. There's a story behind how I got such an unusual name: My mother was a flying attendant and she traveled to Persia, she found a perfume named "Tawanyh", which means "Desired" in Persian. She loved the perfume so much and the name and the meaning of it that she named her first and only child after it.
Age: 15, turning 16 in less than 50 hours, though!
Location: Mexico City, Mexico.
Hobbies and Interests: Filmmaking and watching films, writing and reading, composing and listening to music, painting and admiring paintings, photography and looking at others' work, philosophy, activism, languages and more!
Why are you? Because I wouldn't be anywhere else.
When were you diagnosed? I'm on the process of that, it all began with my mother's suspicions a few years ago, we went to see the doctor and we're waiting for the results.
Favorite subjects: Oooh, I love to study so much. I love everything that has to do with any art, I love Math, medical teachings, Sociology, Psychology, History, so many interesting things out there.
Year/Grade: I'm an independent student since 2003.
Favorite music: I don't like to fit music under categories invented by others. These are some musicians/bands I love:
The Beatles, Roy Orbison, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Spooky Tooth, The Animals, Jimi Hendrix, Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Iggy Pop, the 13th Floor Elevators, Beethoven, Mozart, Berlioz, Chopin, Stravinsky, Bach, Debussy, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Ravel, Big Brother & the Holding Company with and without Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Cauterize, R.E.M., U2, 10000 Maniacs, The Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Aimee Mann, The Ataris, Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Kurt Bestor, the soundtrack and score from films and plays, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright, Darren Hayes, Butch Walker, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Donnas, Skip James, Billie Holliday, Django Reinhardt, The Doors, Yann Tiersen, The Beta Band, Suzanne Vega, Cat Power, Cheap Trick, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Van Morrison, Nick Drake, Velvet Underground, April Wine, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, KISS, Nick Cave, Snow Patrol, Travis, John Mayer, The Cure, Paula Cole, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, Katy Rose, Incubus, Goo Goo Dolls, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Green Day, Joy Division, MXPX, NOFX, Oasis, Tonic, Jimmy Eat World, Eric Clapton, INXS, The Ramones, The Smiths, XTC, Radiohead, James, The Verve, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Meatloaf, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Kate Bush, Hombres G, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Soda Stereo, Chico Buarque, Rita Lee, Paralamas, Toquinho, Vinicius, Caetano Veloso.
Books: "The Catcher in the rye", "Franny and Zooey" and everything else J.D. Salinger has ever written. "The perks of being a wallflower" by Steven Chbosky, many works by the Brontë sisters, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "To kill a Mockingbird" by Lee Harper, "Don Quixote" by Cervantes, The Harry Potter series for being a childhood favorite, "The Little Prince" by Antoine Saint-Exupery for being another favorite since early childhood, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman and "Psicomagia" by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
TV Shows/Movies: "Ghost World", "Across the Universe", "Down in the Valley", "Pretty Persuasion", "Thirteen", "Speak", "The Chumscrubber", "Billy Elliot", "Dear Wendy", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "The Painted Veil", "American History X", "High Fidelity", "Say Anything", "Lost and Delirious", "My life without me", "Amelie", "Un longue dimache de fiancailles", "El Laberinto del Fauno", "Big Fish", "Edward Scissorhands", "The United States of Leland", "The Believer", "Pieces of April", "Once and Again", "Seinfeld", "Blood Ties", "Eli Stone", "Reaper", "Pushing Daisies", "Wonderfalls", "Curb your Enthusiasm", "Arrested Development", "Grounded for Life", "Joan of Arcadia".
Instrument: Guitar, though I can also play the piano, violin, drums, and bass.
Do you like sports? Not my forte but I can enjoy them every now and then. I'm terrible at team sports and my favorite sport to play is Wallball.
Family: The only person I really consider family is my mother. Sure, I also have a father and half-siblings but I am not that close to them.
Clothing: I much prefer being naked.
How did you find this website? Google search.
Plans for the future? I'll worry about my future when it becomes my present.
Any comments? I am inspired today and I hope to meet humans that I'll get along with in here:)
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What I do with my life, is to live it.
What is your first name? Tawanyh, Taw for short. There's a story behind how I got such an unusual name: My mother was a flying attendant and she traveled to Persia, she found a perfume named "Tawanyh", which means "Desired" in Persian. She loved the perfume so much and the name and the meaning of it that she named her first and only child after it.
Age: 15, turning 16 in less than 50 hours, though!
Location: Mexico City, Mexico.
Hobbies and Interests: Filmmaking and watching films, writing and reading, composing and listening to music, painting and admiring paintings, photography and looking at others' work, philosophy, activism, languages and more!
Why are you? Because I wouldn't be anywhere else.
When were you diagnosed? I'm on the process of that, it all began with my mother's suspicions a few years ago, we went to see the doctor and we're waiting for the results.
Favorite subjects: Oooh, I love to study so much. I love everything that has to do with any art, I love Math, medical teachings, Sociology, Psychology, History, so many interesting things out there.
Year/Grade: I'm an independent student since 2003.
Favorite music: I don't like to fit music under categories invented by others. These are some musicians/bands I love:
The Beatles, Roy Orbison, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Spooky Tooth, The Animals, Jimi Hendrix, Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Iggy Pop, the 13th Floor Elevators, Beethoven, Mozart, Berlioz, Chopin, Stravinsky, Bach, Debussy, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Ravel, Big Brother & the Holding Company with and without Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Cauterize, R.E.M., U2, 10000 Maniacs, The Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Aimee Mann, The Ataris, Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Kurt Bestor, the soundtrack and score from films and plays, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright, Darren Hayes, Butch Walker, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Donnas, Skip James, Billie Holliday, Django Reinhardt, The Doors, Yann Tiersen, The Beta Band, Suzanne Vega, Cat Power, Cheap Trick, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Van Morrison, Nick Drake, Velvet Underground, April Wine, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, KISS, Nick Cave, Snow Patrol, Travis, John Mayer, The Cure, Paula Cole, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, Katy Rose, Incubus, Goo Goo Dolls, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Green Day, Joy Division, MXPX, NOFX, Oasis, Tonic, Jimmy Eat World, Eric Clapton, INXS, The Ramones, The Smiths, XTC, Radiohead, James, The Verve, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Meatloaf, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Kate Bush, Hombres G, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Soda Stereo, Chico Buarque, Rita Lee, Paralamas, Toquinho, Vinicius, Caetano Veloso.
Books: "The Catcher in the rye", "Franny and Zooey" and everything else J.D. Salinger has ever written. "The perks of being a wallflower" by Steven Chbosky, many works by the Brontë sisters, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "To kill a Mockingbird" by Lee Harper, "Don Quixote" by Cervantes, The Harry Potter series for being a childhood favorite, "The Little Prince" by Antoine Saint-Exupery for being another favorite since early childhood, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman and "Psicomagia" by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
TV Shows/Movies: "Ghost World", "Across the Universe", "Down in the Valley", "Pretty Persuasion", "Thirteen", "Speak", "The Chumscrubber", "Billy Elliot", "Dear Wendy", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "The Painted Veil", "American History X", "High Fidelity", "Say Anything", "Lost and Delirious", "My life without me", "Amelie", "Un longue dimache de fiancailles", "El Laberinto del Fauno", "Big Fish", "Edward Scissorhands", "The United States of Leland", "The Believer", "Pieces of April", "Once and Again", "Seinfeld", "Blood Ties", "Eli Stone", "Reaper", "Pushing Daisies", "Wonderfalls", "Curb your Enthusiasm", "Arrested Development", "Grounded for Life", "Joan of Arcadia".
Instrument: Guitar, though I can also play the piano, violin, drums, and bass.
Do you like sports? Not my forte but I can enjoy them every now and then. I'm terrible at team sports and my favorite sport to play is Wallball.
Family: The only person I really consider family is my mother. Sure, I also have a father and half-siblings but I am not that close to them.
Clothing: I much prefer being naked.
How did you find this website? Google search.
Plans for the future? I'll worry about my future when it becomes my present.
Any comments? I am inspired today and I hope to meet humans that I'll get along with in here:)
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What I do with my life, is to live it.
Age: 46
Location: Northern Wisconsin, USA
Hobbies and Interests: Figure drawing, action dolls, computer programming, Sudoku/Logic Grid Puzzles/Cryptograms (more on back... j/k)
Why are you here? Just to network.
When were you diagnosed? 2007, AS
Favorite subjects: Etymology/neology/onomastics, Math/Physics (as far as I have gone), animal taxonomy, cryptography, phonetics
Favorite music: Techno/Electronica, Disco (esp. when it was just instrumental), Rock-a-billy, Boogy-woogy, Ragtime and many songs from genres not named
TV shows/Movies: All Law & Order; All CSI; NCIS; Numb3rs; Terminator, the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Instrument: Melodica, by ear, but extremely amateur; cabasa
Do you like sports? Not particularly
Family: DW, 3 DDs (1 LFA, 1 possible AS), 7 DSs (1 HFA), 1 DGS
Clothing: Usually
How did you find this website? Many conversations are Google hits.
Job: Freelance programmer & technical support analyst; looking for more steady employment; My resume' is at (see profile).
Plans for the future? I wish.
Any comments? When I grow up, I would really like to be a mathematician, like the guys on Numb3rs. My "Holey" (not to be mistaken for Holy) Grail is trisecting an angle with straightedge & compass.
My homepage is at (see profile).
Nice to meet you, Larry.
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"You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory."- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Age: Soon 21
Location: Kalmar, Sweden
Hobbies and Interests: Swimming, read books and poetry, culture
Why are you here? To meet other people with the same diagnosis
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I believe I was 7 years old, but my parents suspected that something was "wrong" when I was 1 and hadn´t yet learned to walk.
Favorite subjects: That must be the one I study now - Sociology
Year/Grade: second year at university
Favorite music: Coldplay, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dixie Chicks, Eldkvarn, Eric Clapton, Chris Rea, Johnny Cash, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Peter LeMarc, Richard Hawley etc.
Books: I have many favourite books, but two of them are "Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs" by Linda Olsson and "A Window For One Year" by John Irving
TV shows/Movies: "House", "Tell Me You Love Me", "My Neighbor Totoro", Howl´s Moving Castle, Brokeback Montain and the Return.
Instrument: I played cello, but I did not think I developed musically so I ended it.
Do you like sports? Yes, swimming
Family: My mum and dad, two brothers and one sister
Clothing: shirts, jeans, t-shirt...normal clothing, I think
How did you find this website? On Wikipedia
Job: I haven´t any job yet, but hopefully I´ve got one after I graduated university
Plans for the future? Get a job, I´m not that kind of person who makes magnificent plans.
Any comments? Uhmm...No.
Nice to meet you, Sanna.
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"You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory."- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Age: 17
Location: Somewhere in the U.S. surrounded by a lot of nothing.
Hobbies and Interests: Currently just Biology, Genetics, Japanese language, and Medicine
Why are you here? Mostly to learn but maybe to make friends…
When were you diagnosed? Not diagnosed but I’ve spent over a year looking for a reason why I don’t have aspergers (not because I think it’s a bad thing but because it seems too easy an explanation) so far everything I’ve read indicates I’m an aspie.
Year/Grade: College Sophomore
Favorite Music: I have no idea because I just listen to whatever sounds good and 90% of the time I have no idea what it’s called.
Books: Battlefield Earth, Ringworld, old college textbooks (only if they are related to my interests though), and numerous manga series…
TV shows/Movies: Serenity (movie), star wars, startrek, nova, animal planet (I think that’s what its called anyways), and history channel.
Instrument: None.
Do you like sports? Watching sports no. Playing sports… sometimes.
Family: Mom, Dad, one younger sister and one younger brother. Whether any of them have Aspergers or not… I don’t know.
Clothing: t-shirt, jeans, anything simple. I hate shopping.
How did you find this website? My parents found it…
Job: Full time student
Plans for the future? Medical school hopefully and at least a real boyfriend.
Any comments? Nope
Nice to meet you, SolarShadow.
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"You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory."- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
What is your first name? Jenna
Age: 19
Location: Pennsylvania
Hobbies and Interests: Animals, singing, reading, having fun, etc.
Why are you here? recomendation from a family friend
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): lack of common social skills/not great in school
Favorite subjects: Chorus, psychology, and sciences
Year/Grade: 2nd semester freshman, college
Favorite music: country, showtunes, classical, oldies, anything but pop/rap/hip hop
Books: all Shakespeare, historical diaries, all Gregory MaGuire, the Twilight series, etc.
TV shows/Movies: Touched by an Angel, 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Family Guy, Chelsea Lately, etc. Horror, musicals, comedy, etc.
Instrument: voice
Do you like sports? I like crew, and all other outdoor sports
Family: dog, mother, father, brother, me
Clothing: anything warm, especially "Under Armour"
How did you find this website? recommendation from a family friend
Job: full time student, during summer work for local zoo, someday (hopefully) local humane society
Plans for the future? be a researcher for a documentary like Discovery's "Planet Earth" or be an animal rescuer for a humane society
Any comments? If you can't tell, I love Love, LOve, LOVe, LOVE, LOVE, LOVe, LOve, Love, love animal!! !! : ) : ) : ) : )
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Loads O' Hearts,
Jenna Smith