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What is your first name? Jennifer

Age: 28

Location: Virginia

Hobbies and Interests: Guitars, ancient history, traveling, music

Why are you here? To be around people like me

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Was first brought up in '95 and then in 2005 the psychiatrist I was working for told me he was convinced I had AS.

Favorite subjects: Ancient history and Government

Year/Grade: Graduate Student

Favorite music: Hard Rock/Metal

Books: To Kill a Mockingbird

TV shows/Movies: Waaaay too many to name.

Instrument: Guitar

Do you like sports? Love them! My main sport is volleyball.

Family: Mom, dad, and younger brother

Clothing: Either very casual or business attire

How did you find this website? Link from another website

Job: Don't have one...let me know if you have one for me.

Plans for the future? Other than get a job? Travel around the world and explore.

Any comments? Not right now.

What is your first name? Nate

Age: 20

Location: Cleveland

Hobbies and Interests: WWII, drafting, mecha, general history

Why are you here? I found this site accidently when I was searching wikipedia, and for reasons known only to god, clicked on the asperagers article and for said reasons clicked on the link here. . .life has not been the same since

Favorite subjects: History, ceramics

Year/Grade: sophmore in college

Favorite music: Wagner, starting to look into eletronica now

Books:anything by robert caro, simon schama, some of David McCullogh's books and those neat time-life historys on WWII. . .ALso any reference books on WWII weapons

TV shows/Movies: Simpsons and The EMpire Strikes back

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I wrestle. Heavyweight class.

Family: parents (both of em), a brother in the army and a sister working on her masters. . .

Clothing: red shirts and whatever fits down there.

How did you find this website? Act of God.

Job: Sanitation Engineer.

Plans for the future? I want to be the greatest industrial desinger that ever walked the earth, then I want to spearhead the industrialization of space. After that I'll become a history professor.

What is your first name? ohoh, just call me Silvers

Age: something between 40 and 50

Location: EUrope

Internet, reading, dreaming
AS
not diagnosed, suspected since early 2004
Maths
Nothing in particular, but no Rap and Jazz
Flatland (Abbott), Terry Pratchett
none/Monty Python
none but computer
no

Family: yes
Mostly casual. I dont like to buy new chlothing

Job: everything and nothing

Plans for the future? many - planning a better world
excuse my poor english

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Welcome Silvers!

We have some things in common. I am also a 45 year old mom of two children. I came to the board because my younger child has PDD-NOS.

Please look around and make yourself comfortable.

BeeBee

What is your first name? Liz

Age: 18

Location: Purgatory (a.k.a. Florida)

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, Anime, Video Games, J-rock

Why are you here? I have AS and OCD

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Age 16, 2003


Favorite subjects: Humanities, Theater, Psychology, English

Year/Grade: N/A (I graduated High Shool last year and after Dual Enrolling at the college for three years while in HS I sorta got burnt out and haven't gone back yet. I'm planning my return in the spring.)

Favorite music: Acoustic Guitar, Anything Piano, Classical, J-rock, J-pop, Anime or Game soundtracks

Books: The Elric Saga, Dragon Sword and Wind Child, Harry Potter, The Feast of the Trickster

TV shows/Movies: Concerning tv shows Survivor (I'm a shameless addict), Law & Order, South Park, and sometimes anime that's on tv even if it IS horribly butchered since I can't afford to buy anime all the time (That stuff's expensive dangit!).. As for movies: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Dogma, Something the Lord Made, Ladyhawke, Bladerunner, What Dreams May Come, Spring and Chaos

Instrument: I am learning the Alto Sax and Violin

Do you like sports? Nope, not at all. I can neither play them or watch them since I'm horrible at playing and watching them bores me to death. Unless it's playing a game of Blitzball on FFX. Blitzball is the only game I can tolerate to play or watch.

Family: A mom who also is diagnosed with AS

Clothing: I've got a weird sense of style. Most of the time I just wear t-shirts and jeans but occasionally I get in a renaissance-y victorian-y mode and then I start dressing up in my weird clothes.

How did you find this website? I blundered across it.

Job: None currently, though I want one at the local video game store.

Plans for the future? I would like to be an author, but I really in a way don't know what I want to do..

Any comments? Nope!

What is your first name? Adam

Age: 15

Location: Florida

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, Reading, the Internet

Why are you here? I have Asperger's Syndrome

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Of this I am uncertain

Favorite subjects: English and World history

Year/Grade: I am currently nearing the end of Ninth Grade

Favorite music: Pretty much anything that isn't rubbish

Books: Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams, Shadowmarch by Tad Williams, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Sabriel by Garth Nix, and the entire Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

TV shows/Movies: Princess Mononoke, Donnie Darko, Run Lola Run, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Waking Life, Nausicaa, Brazil, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, and Dune.

Instrument: Afraid I'm not all that musically talented and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to play an instrument.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I don't like any sports with the exception of Underwater Basket-Weaving

Family: Mum, dad, and a younger brother whom I don't like to talk about much.

Clothing: Anything that fits and doesn't look ridiculous is fine with me.

How did you find this website? Mum was reading out loud an article that included a link to said website

Job: I am currently a student.

Plans for the future? I am actually uncertain what I'd like to do with the future. I might perhaps become a writer, or perhaps a teacher.

Any comments? I quite enjoy the layout of this website.
That's all I have to say.

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What is your first name? Anne

Age: 26

Location: California

Hobbies and Interests: Science, psychology, cryonics, Star Wars, reading.

Why are you here? It is fairly obvious to me now that I've been an Aspie my whole life but did not figure it out until recently.

When were you diagnosed? Self-diagnosed this month. Seeking formal AS diagnosis for my own peace of mind. Diagnosed, at various times in my life, with ADHD, dysthymia, social anxiety, and nonspecific nonverbal learning disabilities. I'm 99% certain that these diagnoses were haphazardly applied and my underlying issue is really AS. And I'm more than okay with that.

Favorite subjects: Electromagnetic fields and waves.

Year/Grade: I have a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.

Favorite music: Anything that makes me feel shivery.

Books: Too many to list! Though I must mention Harry Potter...

TV shows/Movies: Star Trek / Star Wars / Stargate SG-1 (I'm sensing a trend here...)

Instrument: Some guitar.

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Ugh, no. I have terrible motor skills.

Family: I live with my (NT but geeky-introverted) boyfriend. I have 1 (quirky) father, 1 stepmother, 1 biological brother (quirky-NT), 1 biological sister (scary-normal), 1 stepbrother, and 1 stepsister. My biological mother is deceased.

Clothing: Lots of comfy things. Lots of black things.

How did you find this website? Googling!

Job: Analog engineer specializing in the minimization of electromagnetic interference.

Plans for the future? To live forever. Possibly to become a cyborg. To observe, learn, and understand as much as I possibly can about the Universe.

Any comments? I've been lurking for a while here, and I like it. I'm devouring info about AS at the moment. It's nice to have discovered my "people", so to speak.

Welcome Azalynn

I have a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering too (respectively a German equivalent). Now Im studying safety engineering.

Silvers

Name: Sabra
Age: 42....Ouch!
Location: Frozen tundra...Canada
Hobbies/Interests: nature, biking, staring blankly, wasting time on computer,videotaping, constructing time machine, medical and scientific/conspiracy type stuff
Why are you here: to make your lives miserable and get understanding of myself
Favourite Subjects: people - but at a dis-tance! Nature and medical and mystery. You talking school....hmmm....good at maths and science.
Music: I like country...sorry...also like jazz, moldy oldies,blues...ok everything except hard rock and most rap.
Books: What's a book?
TV shows/movies: Can only think of CSI, family guy, simpsons/Brazil
Family: ex husband NT, daughter NT, son PDDNOS and me undiagnosised - I believe Aspie
Clothing: anything loose/hippy style; uniform at work - coworkers call me "no ass" or "skinny minnie"
Job: city bus driver ie Transit Operator
Future: Plans for world domination almost complete; wouldn't mind cabin in the mountains away from everyone.
Instrument: scalpel
Any comment: "Sounds like a personnal problem"
I like everyone....but don't get to close.....I BITE!

First name: Emily
Age: 23 (24 in August, 2005)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USofA
Hobbies/Interests: poetry, ASDs, neuropsychology, abnormal psychology, art, paleoanthropology, Garfield, collecting books and movies and basically anything else I feel like collecting, learning computers, internet, chats, photoblog, my cats, my mice, calendars, dabbling in the hard sciences, reading Discovery and Scientific American magazines, and the list goes on and on and on...
Why am I here?: undiagnosed Aspie; will be having my assessment in July, 2005.
When was I diagnosed?: not yet. Hoping soon.
Favorite subjects: I am majoring in Psychology and English and minoring in German.
Year/Grade: One credit from Junior standing in undergraduate.
Favorite music: Frank Sinatra, Jazz, Classical including Opera, Oldies, Musicals, and Alternative.
Books: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, and poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, and Bertolt Brecht among many others.
TV shows/movies: X-Files! and also too many movies to list. I love Shine and Shadowlands. Those are two of my favorites.
Instruments: No instruments.
Sports: I LOVE racquetball and baseball.
Family: Mainly just my mother.
Clothing: Jeans/khakis, a t-shirt, and my Old Navy gray vest.
Wrong Planet: Found it by accident thinking it was Ooops Wrong Planet.
Job: None. On SSDI.
Plans?: To teach English/Creative Writing at a post-secondary level and get my own work published (and win either the Nobel or the Pulitzer--lol)
Any comments?: No comments. No pictures. My lawyer will be issuing a statement to the press by the close of the week. Thank you.

What is your first name? Adam

Age: 21

Location: United States

Hobbies and Interests: Internet, Public Transportation, Livin' the College Life

Why are you here?: I have several friends on the spectrum, and can relate to many of the issues faced by those with AS.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): [skip--never diagnosed]

Favorite subjects: Classwise: Logistics (college courses), and Geography
Year/Grade: College Senior in the fall

Favorite music: Country

Books: Chicken Soup for Soul Series

TV shows/Movies: TV Show = COPS...too many movies liked for too many reasons to pick a favorite.

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Watching my college's football and basketball teams...other than that hockey.

Family: I have a great family, thank you veyr much.

Clothing: T-shirt and jeans (sometimes shorts)...though I find myself (business major) in situations requiring formal attire a lot...

How did you find this website?

Job: Intern in the summer, college student during the year.

Plans for the future?: Hopefully be a rail operations planner someday (dude who writes the schedules, equipment manipulations, etc.).

Any comments? No.

Age: 28

Location: Tucson, AZ

Hobbies and Interests: Photography, music, cooking/foodie-ism, urban exploration, reading (and sometimes writing)

Why are you here? I've been diagnosed with and treated for various disorders throughout the years, but Asperger's seems to come the closest to what's actually "wrong" with me. My half-brother (mom's kid) was diagnosed as autistic as a child, and my father (a programmer/systems analyst) could come straight out of High-Functioning Autism central casting.

I was always a loner, more asocial than antisocial. In school I would get in trouble for wanting to stay behind and read instead of participating in sports (group athletics were and are a tremendous source of anxiety for me; I prefer walking, weight training, yoga, freestyle swimming, etc). At the same time, I was hard to control -- more interested in what was going on in my own mind than whatever activity was going on in the classroom, and when I did pay attention, I thought the lessons were boring and my teachers were stupid. So I'd get in trouble because I didn't know that calling the teachers out on their mistakes/wrongheadedness was a social no-no. (I'm slowly getting the hang of this in adult life too, although all too often my idealism wins out.)

I've had problems as an adult, in finding and keeping jobs, in putting my obsessions aside long enough to prioritize the important things (and I know what I have to do, I just get tunnel-visioned and lose track of time), in being a "team player" when what I really want is to work on my own, in multitasking when what I really want is one engaging project I can throw myself into. I've had to quit jobs because I felt uncomfortable on the phone (what's wrong with e-mail?), and I hated having to knock on co-workers' office doors if I had a question. I guess I just didn't want anyone to pay attention to me, because I didn't want them to figure out that I was weird. I wanted to pass as normal, to fake it, but as they say in the movie "Wargames," "the only way to win is not to play." Also, if people were to pay attention to me, they'd be able to see through my professional facade and tell that I found them shallow, shrill, and toxically banal. And in their eyes that would alienate me from them even more.

I can't really deal with roommates, but so far I haven't been able to afford living on my own. That may change very soon -- a prospect that I'm very excited about. My current roommates aren't bad people, they're just loud and hyperenergetic and they never shut up. Me, I'm quiet. I don't talk much. And while I'm mentally restless (and my physical restlessness is on a more macro-level, meaning i thrive on travel), I can sit still for hours and hours.

Relationships haven't gone well; I keep dating guys who are far too much like me. Recently I've gotten much better at communicating my feelings, but my last couple of boyfriends have had major panic attacks when I tried to get them to communicate theirs (I'd like to think I'm intuitive, but maybe I'm not because "getting a vibe" isn't enough for me; I need to hear the actual words come out so I know for sure). Whatever I get into next, I need to be certain that the person is emotionally mature.


Favorite music: Don't ask unless you're prepared for a very long, complicated, tiresome answer. I'm not a snob about my tastes though.


Books: Non-fiction. Reference books. Atlases and maps (esp. route maps for buses and trains). Cookbooks. Photography books (artistic photography, social documentary, mundane stock-photo clip art).


TV shows/Movies: Back when I had digital cable my favorites included "Good Eats," "The Daily Show," the Discovery Channel(s), HGTV shows on home design, VH1 Classic, old movies on TCM and the Fox Movie Channel. Favorite movies: Anything Bud Cort is in. Or Walter Matthau. I love '60s/'70s black comedies.


Instrument: Some piano (a year and a half of lessons), a bit of guitar. I studied voice formally.


Family: Small and relatively nuclear. My extended family is all dead or in Florida.


Clothing: Black, by force of habit. (I'm not goth, I'm just a native New Yorker.) I'm trying to change this now that I'm in a desert climate in summertime.

Since I'm new here, I'm glad I found this because I didn't know how to go about introducing myself.


What is your first name? Tosc

Age: early 40's

Location: United States

Hobbies and Interests: Playing cards and board games.

Why are you here? I have a special needs son.

Favorite music: Dean Martin and Roy Orbison

Books: Philosophy books

TV shows/Movies: Mary Tyler Moore and All in the Family
Casablanca

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: I like baseball

Family: Parents and I have two older siblings (brothers). I have two sons.

Clothing: very casual. T-shirts and 501 jeans

How did you find this website? By doing a search on Aspergers.

Job: Casino games dealer

Plans for the future? LOL. That was funny. I'm just glad that I wake up in the mornings.

Any comments? Do you ever feel like this is the day that you're going to really wake up and that all this has just been a dream.

What is your first name? : Lucía

Age: 17

Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia

Hobbies and Interests: Singing!! !! internet, writing, reading, history, piano, languages

Why are you here?: I have Asperger Syndrome, I have bipolar disorder

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): haven't been diagnosed yet, bipolar 5 days ago Edit: I was diagnosed 3 weeks ago.

Favorite subjects: Music, History, geography, geopolitics

Year/Grade: I finished High school 2 years ago (in 2003)

Favorite music: Gothic, rock, retro rock (White Stripes, The Vines), symphonic rock/metal, brit pop, and more...

Books: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Harry Potter!! !, The Stranger (el extranjero), The divine comedy

TV shows/Movies: Ranma 1/2!! !, American Idol, La saga (colombian soap-opera), music programs

Instrument: Soprano singer 8if that counts), I'm learning piano

Do you like sports? If so, which ones?: Used to like chess, don't know if that counts but I like dancing a lot!! !

Family: Mom, dad, two half sisters who are 30 and more years old, and two younger siblings: sister, 16 and brother, 11. None of them have any disorder.

Clothing: very comfortable, or very special. What I look and say "wow, I love this", so I buy it. And it has to be in certain fabrics (cotton specifically, or jeans) and cold or dark colors (that means, never yellow or orange).

How did you find this website?: It's a long story...

Job: unemployed.

Plans for the future:? I will be a famous singer.

Any comments?: this is cool...

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Isn't that almost the same thing?

What is your first name?: Madeleine

Age: 16 on June 21st

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Hobbies and Interests: reading, politics, supernatural, cleaning
(seriously)

Why are you here?: My brothers were diagnosed last month, and I'm trying to learn all I can.

Favorite subjects: English, history, math (pre-calc)

Year/Grade: 11th in the fall

Books: Harry Potter (45 days to go!), Georgia Nicolson books, currently reading Angels & Demons

TV shows/Movies: 24!!, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order: SVU, ER, Will & Grace, eagerly awaiting Goblet of Fire movie, and STAR WARS!

Instrument: Guitar for 4 years

Do you like sports?: Not group sports; I like to swim and work out at the gym.

Family: Parents, 2 younger brothers (identical twins), grandmother (lives with us), dog (Lola), cat (Mary), and bunny (Oreo).

Clothing: "Classic"-ish...typically, jeans, top, and Converse...although a recent skirt-convert

How did you find this website?: My mom found it.

Job: High School student

Plans for the future?: thinking about going down the medical path...or the law path...or the political path...

Any comments?: I've only been at this site for a few days, but I really like it and am glad to be here![/i]