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Welcome to the wrong planet!!

What is your first name? Phillip

Age: 17

Location: Belgium

Hobbies and Interests: writing, ballet, reading

Why are you here?: suspected Asperger Syndrome

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

Favorite subjects: chemistry, history, neuroscience, geography, mythology

Year/Grade: 1st year of Bachelor in Chemistry, University of Antwerp

Favorite music: classical, film, some pop, folk, country

Books: His Dark Materials, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Lord of the Rings, any book by John Grisham

TV shows/Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland, Lord of the Rings,

Instrument: Trumpet and Piano

Do you like sports? karate and ninjutsu

Family: two brothers (one with ADHD) and two sisters (one possibly with Aspergers)

Clothing: jeans, long sleeve t-shirt under a t-shirt

How did you find this website? Wikipedia, where else

Job: student

Plans for the future? writer, businessman, film producer (I've got a lot planned )

Any comments? We aspies are the normal people, everyone else is abnormal

What is your first name? Syd.

Age: 6/27/1993. Do the math.

Location: Minnesota, USA.

Hobbies and Interests: Drawing, writing, roleplaying, watching TV, playing video games, listening to music, etc.
Cartoons, animation, video games, furry, computers and the internet, some puppetry, etc.

Why are you here? To ask questions about my brother who has Aspergers, and to cope with my social awkwardness.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I haven't been diagnosed yet, but I think that I might have Aspergers.

Favorite subjects: Art, English.

Year/Grade: Towards the end of my Junior year in high school.

Favorite music: Alternative, Rock, Pop, Eletronica, some Country and Rap.

Books: Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez).

TV shows/Movies: Flapjack, Chowder, Adventure Time, Camp Lazlo, Foster's, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go, Spongebob, Veggie Tales, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ren And Stimpy, South Park, Pokemon, Digimon, The Simpsons, etc.
WALL.E, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Happy Feet, Juno, The Goonies, The Lion King, 31 Minutos: La Película, South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut, etc.

Instrument: None.

Do you like sports? No.

Family: Mom and Dad (divorced), Step Dad, and a Brother.

Clothing: Cartoon and Band T-Shirts, black or grey pants, rainbow socks, etc.

How did you find this website? I heard about it through another forum.

Job: None, currently.

Plans for the future? I'm going to Comic Con in July 2010.

Any comments? I'm happy to be here! Feel free to IM me if you want to.

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

What is your first name? Jason

Age: 29

Location: Brisbane,Queensland,Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Astronomy,Astro-photography,anime,computer games

Why are you here? Because I have AS and ADD

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have the disorder): February 2003.Diagnosed with AS.

Favourite Subjects: Maths,Science.

Year/Grade: Year 12

Favourite Music: With the exception of Country/Western,Contemporary Pop/R&B,Rap and Death Metal, I'll listen to.

Books: Astronomy books and magazines,Full Metal Alchemist,Macquarie Concise Dictionary,Books about AS/autism.

Tv shows/Movies: ATHF,Curb your Enthusiasm,Big Bang Theory,Full Metal Alchemist,InuYasha,Cowboy Bebop,The Simpsons(Seasons 1-6),Hayao Miyazaki,Star Wars Episodes IV-VI and many more.

Do you like sports? Apart from Australian Rules Football-No!(go Geelong)

Family: Parents are Divorced,have sister,all NT.

Clothing: Mainly T-shirts that are striped,Brown recreational shoes,pants that are not corduoroy and black hat.

how did you find this website? Googled asperger syndrome.

Job: Unemployed since September 2009.

Plans for the future? I wish I was working or a millionaire.

Any comments? Former browser now member.

@ CockneyRebel: Thank you!
@ Jaspie: Welcome to WrongPlanet! I like FullMetal Alchemist, The Simpsons, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force as well.

What is your first name? Mike

Age: 24

Location: Chicago Suburbs

Hobbies and Interests: Being outside, kids, animals, people

Why are you here? I think I'm an Aspie, so to relate with other people who might be like me

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Suspected myself about half a year ago

Favorite subjects: I like all subjects, just not homework

Year/Grade: College grad

Favorite music: Tropical

Books: Don't read books anymore - I read non-fiction self-help types, and spiritual, I still would,
but I've been giving it a rest for a while

TV shows/Movies: Malcolm in the middle, X-Files, Animal planet - but watching those nature shows and seeing animals kill each other
always starts making me feel negative about life, so I only watch it if I'm really bored, also I watch basketball

Instrument: I use software to make hip hop beats - sampling, and used to rap...but both got old to me so I hardly do it anymore..

Do you like sports? yup, basketball, football, tennis, swimming in the shallow end or against the wall : ) whatever, just being active

Family: negative day to day family life but I love 'em...I'd like to have a family one day but only with the right girl

Clothing: random t-shirts, jeans, shorts, simple...whenever I wear good looking clothes I feel uncomfortable internally,
and also because I feel like I have to be careful to not get them dirty, it's too much

How did you find this website? went searching the web for asperger's related things once I thought I may have it

Job: I don't have one, I don't want one, but I think I might have to get one

Plans for the future? I'm about to turn off a lot of women - well, at least from the information I've been given this is not an attractive thing what I'm about to say...
I have no plans for the future, I want to travel, have a good girlfriend, do the things I want to do....but because of my current life situation, which I can explain to you
later, that stuff is put off for now (except the girlfriend part I'd welcome that)..but the thing is I think I should be trying to get into the things I like now
instead of waiting.

Any comments? I'm here to talk to people who hopefully we can relate to each other...it would be a blast if I could find a girlfriend, or a girl - friend or guy friend, because I don't have any and I think it starts to suck doing things alone

What is your first name? David

Age: 26 in less than an hour's time...

Location: Oxford, England

Hobbies and Interests: Guitar, singing, the outdoors, video games, history, stonemasonry

Why are you here? Truthfully I suspected something a while ago but I just went to stay with my mum (and couldn't wait to get away to my own space and order again) and she said she thought I was and wished she'd known when I was a kid so she could have made things better for me. I couldn't work out why she was so upset about something so old that can't be changed but apparently that's a classic example, so... so I'm here to learn more, to figure things out, maybe get some advice or ideas or whatever.

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

Favorite subjects: History

Year/Grade: What?

Favorite music: Metal. But not screamy stuff.

Books: Pratchett and Cornwell maybe, and David Gemmell's Lion of Macedon books as well.

TV shows/Movies: The Wire, Family Guy, NCIS, Scrubs, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes...Gladiator, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, and Sharpe

Instrument: Guitar! And keyboard. And vocals.

Do you like sports? No, how dull.

Family: I have one somewhere. I have a son somewhere, which obviously means there's an ex somewhere... in fact there are several exes... and blood relatives dotted around the UK. I think I'm supposed to say I love them, and I suppose I do, inasmuch as I can, but really I feel more like I'm just fond of them.

Clothing: I like to dress well. Middle of the road, really- my dad used to say I dressed like I was 40 when I was 17, and my style hasn't changed since then. It's clean, it's functional, it looks sharp and good, it just isn't 'trendy' in the sense of the trendy kids you see in the street who you think just look absurd.

How did you find this website? went searching the web for asperger's related things once I thought I may have it- I copied this off the last guy, but it's true.

Job: I've just started a new one in a new town where no-one knows my previous social faux-pas. And I'm a manager.

Plans for the future? I live day to day really, so I don't have plans. Rather, I have ideas of what would be nice. A wife and kids, you know, a stable family. A dog. The ability to be able to conventrate on something long enough to be good at it, and then be bloody good at something.

Any comments? Sometimes I think you can't encapsulate a person in a neat little list of questions and answers and bullet points and graphs with pointy bits pointing due odd.
My only real comment is: Isn't it great we've got the internet, so we're not left isolated?

(By the way this is in place of an intro thread because I reckon I'll either get an intro thread wrong or no-one will reply and either way I'll look stupid)

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

What is your first name?
Marcus
Age:
37
Location:
Washington State
Hobbies and Interests:
Reading, writing, running.
Why are you here?
I suspect I have AS, concerned about consequences of an official diagnosis.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):

Favorite subjects:
Math, science
Year/Grade:

Favorite music:
Rock / Pop
Books:
Science fiction, biographies
TV shows/Movies:
Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly / Serenity, Batman: The Animated Series, Jimmy Neutron
Instrument:
Guitar
Do you like sports?
No
Family:
2 sisters, 3 nieces
Clothing:
T-shirts and jeans
How did you find this website?
Google search for Asperger's Syndrome
Job:
Electronics Technician
Plans for the future?
Return to school to get a degree in Computer Science
Any comments?
All my life, people have told me I'm weird and I have never felt as though I fit in anywhere. I read the "Complete guide to Asperger's Syndrome" by Tony Attwood and that is the closest I have come to fitting into any established category.
I am contemplating the pros and cons of an official diagnosis, specifically if it would affect my professional career.

thanks, i'd love to see a bit more of your work. your avatar looks promising
i mainly use acrylics, but I also do oil, I have had a watercolour period and the children drawings are often digitally modified (but not always) Maybe we can continue this conversation in the art thread when you post some of your work (curiously jumping up and down
)

welcome to Wrongplanet! as you can read I'm from Belgium too, Flemish of origin living in Walonia.
I play the trumpet too.

Age: 18

Location: Canada

Hobbies and Interests: Airsoft, fencing, computer modding/gaming (Mostly RTS, and 4X), hockey, wargaming and modeling, writing, research and politics

Why are you here: I am a late diagnosis, so I have had trouble adjusting. I am hoping to learn some stuff, meet some people I guess.

When were you diagnosed? Last year of high school

Favorite subjects: Physics>Chemistry>Biology, mostly micro scale where they interrelate. Philosophy, political science, economics as well.

Year/Grade: Finished 1st year

Favorite music: I never really listened to any at all. This random band of hobos called 5 oclock people has some cool stuff I guess.

Books: A lot. Mostly non fiction. Lately my time is into research papers, though.

TV shows/Movies: Gladiator, Waltz with Bashir, In the Loop, LOTR, Kingdom of heaven (extended), Iron Man. Random stuff I guess. I don't really watch any TV.

Instrument: nope

Do you like sports? Yes, very, but I can't watch them.

Family: Um, 4 people? Boring white suburbian

Clothing: Semi professional at any social event.

How did you find this website? Internetz

Job: Student researcher

Plans for the future? Research

Any comments: Nothing to comment on as of yet.

What is your first name? John

Age: 14

Location: Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Computers

Why are you here? I'm not good with philosophy.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I THINK when I was 7.

Favorite subjects: IT

Year/Grade: Dunno. I think 10?

Favorite music: Steriogram, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Gorillaz, Battles, Crystal Castles and Pistol Youth.

Books: Artemis Fowl

TV shows/Movies: Doctor Who, House, Life On Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

Instrument: I don't play music, but if I had to choose an instrument to learn, it'd be the flute.

Do you like sports? No. I'm unfit.

Family: Brother with tourettes and high functioning Autism, brother with Asperger's, divorced father with bipolar (we're still close and I see him and talk to him often and my mum is good friends with him).

Clothing: Anything that I can find. Right now I'm wearing a gray shirt with white sleeves that go halfway down the area between elbow and wrist and are ended with 1cm black cuffs. My collar has a 1cm black outline and there's a sewn 'X' under it. I'm wearing gray sweatpants with it and black socks.

How did you find this website? The Google search engine.

Job: Child.

Plans for the future? Get IT degree.

Any comments? No.

What is your first name? Blake

Age: 13. (14 in 2 days.)

Location: Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Computers, IT.

Why are you here? Talk to other people like me and make friends.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): About 6-7.

Favorite subjects: IT, Music

Year/Grade: 8

Favorite Music: Scooter Techno, Linkin Park, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin

Books: I don't read much.

TV shows/Movies: Adam 2009, I am Legend, Chuck, SG1, ST Voyager, Men Of A Certain Age, The Big Bang Theory.

Instrument: Flute, Guitar, Keyboard. (Focus is Guitar.)

Do you like sports? No.

Family: 1 Younger Sister, 1 Older Brother, Mother and Father

Clothing: What ever I find, Though I will say on school holidays and weekends I basically live in my PJs. When I go out I tend to wear fairly good looking clothes.

How did you find this website? Father suggested it.

Job: Child, School.

Plans for the future? I don't know.

Any comments? None.

What is your first name? Lizzy

Age: 30

Location: Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Hobbies and Interests: Spending time with my boys - age 4 and 5, Body Attack classes, running, cardmaking, makind DVDs

Why are you here? My son Jack, age 5, was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in March 2010 and my ex husband is now also seeking a diagnosis of ASD.

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

Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade:

Favorite music: I have a very eclectic taste in music

Books: Twilight series and autobiographies

TV shows/Movies: Moulin Rouge, Twilight, New Moon and all the usual chick flicks like Dirty Dancing...

Instrument: I play keyboard

Do you like sports? I like to try to keep fit

Family: My ex husband is Andy and we have two beautiful little boys, Jack (age 5) and Tom (age 4) and two little Jack Russells, Adam and Joe

Clothing:

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Specialist Occupational Therapist

Plans for the future? Not sure, but want my boys to grow into happy confident individuals

Any comments?