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What is your first name? Adam

Age: 27

Location: St Louis

Hobbies and Interests: RC cars, astronomy, physics, hunting, wildlife photography, astrophotography.

Why are you here? Was told I have many aspie traits. Confirmed by another friend (worked with autistic kids... I trust her judgment) who suspected for years that I'm aspie.

When were you diagnosed? Not diagnosed. (yet?)

Favorite subjects: anything mechanical, but rc cars and telescopes specifically.

Year/Grade: Graduated highschool in 2003

Favorite music: Aerosmith, G&R, Bon Jovi

Books: Harry Potter, The Dresden Files, Lemony Snicket

TV shows/Movies: anime

Instrument: Played trombone in HS.

Do you like sports? Is hunting considered a sport? If not, NO!

Family: Mom and Dad divorced when I was 6. Two older brothers, 8 and 10 years older.

Clothing: What ever I have :p

How did you find this website? Found it when reading about aspergers

Job: Detailer at a high end dealership

Plans for the future? Haven't thought past a few hours from now.

Any comments?

What is your first name? Danielle

Age: 21 b-day is May 23, 1990

Location: a rural part of southern Indiana

Hobbies and Interests: Singing, amassing knowledge, watching tv, casual gaming, spending waay too much time on the internet.

Why are you here? would like to discuss Asperger's and meet Aspies similar to me.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): asperger's 2002, I have others, see comments at the bottom.

Favorite subjects: Science, particularly biology, Art

Year/Grade:

Favorite music: emotion provoking, stuff I relate to, stuff I can sing. Specific artists are Evanescence, Linkin Park, Skillet, 30 seconds to Mars

Books: Will read anything, I like Harry Potter series, Twilight saga, The Host, Artimis Fowl series and any Original Series Star Trek novel I can get my hands on. Jane Austen novels, particularly Emma.

TV shows/Movies: Star Trek: TOS and Enterprise, House MD, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, the Big Bang Theory, Numb3rs, Pride and Predjudice ( the version w/ Keira Knightly.) Sense and Sensibility, The Matrix Trilogy, all of the movie versions of the books I mentioned earlier. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Stuff made by Mel Brooks, The Princess Bride, The Time Traveler's wife, LOTR. I'm sure I've forgetten lots. Is anyone detecting a special Interest?

Instrument: Just my voice, unless rhythmic tapping stims count.

Do you like sports? I like watching Grand Slam Tennis, otherwise, I hate sports.

Family: Mom, Dad, 2 younger brothers and an even younger sister. I do not get along with my parents, and that is a major understatement.

Clothing: I wear what I want, although I have to make concessions for the sake of modesty. My style is um, revealing esp. in the summer as I am very temp sensitive. I do tend to wear black a lot but also color as well and according to most people my outfit combinations are weird.

How did you find this website? Heard it mentioned on an email list for people with Asperger's

Job: no

Plans for the future? no

Any comments? I have Cyclothimia, Ulcerative Colitis, SAD, anxiety, chronic depression, allergies, and sleep disorder(s?) as well. I am a walking medical encyclopedia. I am also a bitter, cynical complainer, I attribute this (whether it is true or not) to constant psychological abuse. This is my first post.

What is your first name? Kelsey, and yes, I am a male, a 6’8” 300lb male. Kelsey is a male name that has been appropriated inappropriately for use as a girl’s name.

Age: 40

Location: Central Louisiana

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Writing, Hiking

Why are you here? Asperger’s

When were you diagnosed?: Self DX 1/12, looking for official DX, but having trouble finding doctor.

Favorite subjects: Philosophy, EdPsych, English, Speech, Band

Year/Grade: Going for Masters of Education

Favorite music: Most anything except for much of country

Books: Fantasy – Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Terry Goodkind, Robin Hobb, Brent Weeks, etc.

TV shows/Movies: Most cop or lawyer dramas, TNA, Fringe, The River

Instrument: Tuba

Do you like sports? Volleyball, baseball, and like to watch football.

Family: None close. Do not speak to mother without calling the cops, Father lives off, brother only contacts me when he is clean which is almost never, more contact with wife’s family, but that is sparse.

Clothing: Classic slacks and button up

How did you find this website? Autcast

Job: Student

Plans for the future? Plan to teach either high school Speech, Debate, English or college Philosophy. Also working on a fantasy novel and a new take on Vampire novel.

Any comments?

What is your first name?
William.

Age:
21.

Location:
Portland, OR.

Hobbies and Interests:
Journalism, writing graphic novels, drugs, video games, literature, boating, and guns.

Why are you here?
Because I'm sick of feeling like a freak, as inevitably happens when I'm among normal people.

When were you diagnosed?
When I was about 16, I got sent to "Second Nature Cascade," a wilderness program for troubled teenagers; I was genuinely uncooperative because the staff were pricks who wouldn't stop playing mindgames on all the kids, and eventually they brought in a therapist to figure out wtf was wrong with me. Turns out it's aspergers, surprise!

Favorite subjects:
In school? Writing, English Lit, Journalism (natch), computer programming.

Year/Grade:
Second year of college, but my GPA's all screwed up and I don't have very many credits.

Favorite music:
The Stooges, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Thunders, The Misfits, and The Velvet Underground.

Books:
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, Watership Down, and anything by Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, or William S. Burroughs. Currently reading "VALIS" (Dick) and "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson for an English Comp class. I also absolutely love Homestuck on "MS Paint Adventures," although I'm not sure if it counts as a book.

TV shows:
Doctor Who, Top Gear, Black Lagoon, FullMetal Alchemist (2003 version), and Mobile Suit Gundam/Zeta Gundam.

Movies:
Naked Lunch, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Trainspotting, The Man With the Golden Arm, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, All the President's Men, The Warriors, and Scott Pilgrim.

Instrument:
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Do you like sports?
Soccer's all right, I guess. I love pro wrestling half-ironically and half-genuinely, but that's not really a sport.

How did you find this website?
My mom told me about it years ago when I first got diagnosed. Didn't really care at the time since I didn't consider AS to be a problem for me, but it really is.

Job:
I'm an I/T guy at this company that manages assisted living centers across the US. I don't actually work in any of the nursing homes, I just help keep the computers at the main office running.

Plans for the future?
I wanna be a hotshot journalist, either for a newspaper or a website.

yeah hi

What is your first name? Hannie

Age: 13

Location: UK

Hobbies and Interests: Sherlock Holmes (to the point of obsession), rowing, music, murder mysteries, rainbows, bunnies, foxes, hedgehogs, art, and netball.

Why are you here? I like being in a place where I'm not the only Aspie.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Asperger's Syndrome, Depression, General Anxiety Disorder, AS diagnosed at 13, Depression and GAD at 11.

Favorite subjects: Not keen on school, but I quite like RS, Spanish, Geography, Maths and English, because they have the better teachers.

Year/Grade: Year 9

Favorite music: Don McLean, Ed Sheeran, Scouting for Girls, KT Tunstall, Paolo Nutini, The Beatles, Mumford and Sons, Florence + the Machine

Books: Sherlock Holmes, The Picture of Dorian Gray, crime thrillers and classics

TV shows/Movies: BBC show Sherlock, old Granada Sherlock Holmes, Midsomer Murders, Suits, Misfits. Movies: Dumbo, The Great Escape, Third Star

Instrument: Saxophone. Sort of.

Do you like sports? Some. Rounders. Not swimming. Rowing. Not lacrosse. Hockey (not ice hockey).

Family: Nuclear. Parents, siblings. The norm, but in an adopted family.

Clothing: Hats and capes. Converses. T-shirts. Coloured denim.

How did you find this website? Google search.

Job: At school.

Plans for the future? Run a military convalescent home.

Any comments? Wherever I go, I try to bring my own sunshine.

What is your first name? I won't give you my first first name but I will give you my second first name. Jasmina

Age: 22

Location: QLD, Australia

Hobbies and Interests: motorbikes, horses, reading, learning random crap just because I can, cooking, taking stuff apart for fun, my animals, gardening and see further down for more.

Why are you here? It's nice not to be the only one who has a rather interesting way of thinking

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): September 2011 with AS

Favorite subjects: Modern History

Year/Grade: Ummm I'm past high school and I don't wanna go back. Uni is a different matter

Favorite music: Latin music of all kinds, too many to list. Anything with a clave or a decent rhythm is cool.

Books: History, Politics, Social Issues, Economics, Environmental Issues, Sustainability, International Relations, Development Studies, Latin America and the Caribbean. Too many good ones to list.

TV shows/Movies: Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, Simpsons, Big Bang Theory, House, Q&A, Four Corners, Insight and Documentaries. Blood Diamond, City of God, Rabbit Proof Fence, Life and Debt, Blue Eyed, Spanglish etc etc etc

Instrument: Congas and Sax

Do you like sports? Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, Surfing, Dancing, Pilates, Horse Riding.

Family: I have a father but he doesn't live in this country, I see him once a year and didn't meet him until I was 16.

Clothing: Love bright colours. Dresses or summer clothing. My taste varies, usually more afro-latino influenced.

How did you find this website? A friend gave it to me.

Job: Psychologist

Plans for the future? Go back to Uni and study political science with international relations / development studies. Go do something useful that makes a difference where it needs it. Try do actually achieve it without falling into the bureaucratic crap, falling into the easy life, avoiding the power plays or getting myself killed doing it.

Any comments?: BBMP

What is your first name?
Dion
Age:
20
Location:
UK
Hobbies and Interests:
science, philosophy , video games computers ,photography, anime-manga, reading

Why are you here?
originally because I thought I had aspergers how I am certain that I do.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
may 2011(official diagnosis ) 2006-7 (self diagnosis)
Favorite subjects:
science, photography and ICT
Year/Grade:
well I'm 20..
Favorite music:
green day, muse , queen, elo most other rock..

Books:
most fantasy, sci-fi some historical fiction.. and a few non fiction
TV shows/Movies:
satire, sketch shows, science documentaries
Instrument:
none
Do you like sports
nope
Family:
A brother a 4 sisters- mother
Clothing:
T-shirt and trousers..
How did you find this website?
Google
Job:
Perpetual Student
Plans for the future?
video games developer I hope.
Any comments?
none

What is your first name? Matthew, or Matt. Whichever suites the person talking to me.

Age: 17

Location: South Carolina

Hobbies and Interests: Video Games, TV, Drawing, Music, Karate, Walking, Creating.

Why are you here? I have Aspergers, I like to talk to other people with Aspergers.

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

Favorite subjects: In school? Uh, I hate school ^_^, but I like History and Science a lot. :3

Year/Grade: 11th

Favorite music: Punk, Alternative Rock, Christian, Musical Scores/Orchestral, and Techno.

Books: Jumper series by Steven Charles Ghould. I hate Harry Potter, btw .

TV shows/Movies: Supernatural, Doctor Who, Parenthood, Grimm, Buffy, Angel, Bones, The Finder, etc.

Instrument: I don't play anything.

Do you like sports? Yes?

How did you find this website? Google

Plans for the future? I plan to live on Mars. o.O

Any comments? No

What is your first name? Simon

Age: 17

Location: Delsbo, County of Gävleborg, Sweden

Hobbies and Interests: Computing, languages, music, cooking, cartoons, video games

Why are you here? To get in touch with other aspies

When were you diagnosed? I was diagnosed when I was around 4-5 years old, but I wasn't told about it until I was 9

Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade: Second year of high school

Favorite music: Oldies and dansband (Swedish dance music. Look it up on Youtube)

Books: Grammar books mostly. Also recipe books and books about my interests. Comedy novels too

TV shows/Movies:
Swedish: Most of our sitcoms.
American sitcoms: Two and a Half Men (the seasons with Charlie Sheen), According to Jim and iCarly
Cartoons: Animaniacs, South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Spongebob Squarepants, most of the classic Cartoon Network cartoons, some anime series, etc.

Instrument: I can play the guitar and the piano well. I'm also decent at playing bass and drums

Do you like sports? Not looking at them, but I enjoy engaging in basketball and tennis

Family: Two parents

Clothing: I usually wear a sweater and jeans with a belt. Sometimes I wear sweatpants. When it's hot outside I wear a T-shirt

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: I write a little for a newspaper as a part of a high school course and I make money from it, if that counts

Plans for the future? Being a professional actor, director, singer and/or musician. I would also like to have an occupation where I get to use my language knowledge

Any comments? I don't know

What is your first name? - Zack

Age: 17

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Hobbies and Interests: Games (board, card, and video), taking walks, writing, technology, snowboarding.

Why are you here? To make an attempt at becoming more social.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 9, but was unaware until I was 15.

Favorite subjects: History, English.

Year/Grade: 11

Favorite music: Rock music, but generally open to any genre generally.

Books: Sci-fi mostly or fiction.

TV shows/Movies: The Big Bang Theory. Not much of a TV watching person, but I like to casually watch movies.

Instrument: Used to play Tenor Saxophone in Middle School.

Do you like sports? I have some interest in sports.

Family: Two younger fraternal twin brothers (one looks like me the other doesn't neither have AS either)

Clothing: American Eagle and Aeropostale.

How did you find this website? Browsing around on the internet.

Plans for the future? To become a psychologist and be in the research field.

Any comments? Feel free to send me a PM, I'll talk with anybody.

What is your first name? Kent
Age: 59
Location: Westminster, CO
Hobbies and Interests: Virtual worlds building and textures making, using DAZ and Filterforge and other graphics tools, reading, drawing, sketching, acrylic painting, quantum physics, Magic which is viewed as just unexplained physics. Paralel realities possibilties based on physics, Whatever catches my interest will side track me.

Why are you here? Asperger perspective and find a way to some answers

When were you diagnosed?: Self diagnosed after it was suggested by half sister whom has dyslexia and gave me bio family history. oddly enough my youngest half sister 30 years younger then i is who i connect strongest with though didnt meet till 5 years ago. She is trained as cultural anthropologist and just from our intteractions and conversations suggested my social problem was AS and though i had broused around AS i hadnt come to focus on it because i did not know father history

Favorite music: Everything except hip hop, jub jub or rap which to me is worse the traffic noise. But i love things like Apotheosis-O Fortuna techno remix to Fantasy on theme of Thomas Talus by Ralph Von Williams to Evenesence open door to pink floyd. And i just may play Tentacles on the roof for fun and laugh, then read some lovecraft

Books: Mostly sci fi and fantasy including urban fantasies mostly. The Alien series of Gini Koch,
And I am good reads librarian lost track after reading a lot, only have about 4k posted, got tired of waiting for internet for each book but mostly its fun. For serious scientific american, nat geo and anything catches my eye

TV shows/Movies: Lost Girl, Sanctuary, Face Off, DIY crasher series, The Doctors, since John Carter is coming out i reread the books burroughs took from of Arnold in 1905 whom created the concept burroughs expanded on and the name John Carter as fictional character, Re Reading entire barsoom series of 11 books, Just put Tentacles on the Roof on of the lovecraft society. As joke i put a Miskotonic U alumni sticker on car, under vulcan science academy in window

Instrument: I used to play piano, harpsichord, synthesizers, organ, pedal steedl guitar, banjo, clarinet, guitar. i plink the banjo and do some harmonica. What i do best though is sing, though i have some sythesizer dee sounds in mind

Do you like sports? yes, just not mainstream for some
skiing, sailing, ocean sailing races, race mtn climbing [though cant do anymore]

Family: 7 half brother and sister half of have dyslexia, its thought bio father had AS of some varient

Clothing: Slightly ragged bottom Khaki Cargo pants, slouch hat, leather jacket and except for being bald i do look a bit like indiana jones and i do know how to use a 12ft bullwhip but never did his tricks. and drive a SUV

How did you find this website? Link from another AS site

Job: Disabled from MS, though its apparent other factors contribute

Plans for the future? Live -maybe find a real soul relationship before much older

Any comments? Hope at least for some people to talk too, i am tired of being an older hermit, i let people in the gates to my castle to show it off but toget to my inner keep takes a bit of work lookng. Some say i have twisted sense of humor along with other things. I dont live in just another world, its another univers up to gee 59 galaxies but the TV show Warehouse 13 describes my mind better, some ideas are best kept in the warehouse but the whole concept of my mental function is that show, mixed in with a bunch of things making me a pot pourie of thoughts, ideas, crazy ideas.

Age: 44

Location: Tasmania

Hobbies and Interests: Interests include practical combatives, magic/illusions, bioregional animistic polytheistic etc religions, coming decline of civilisation and die-off, tracking. Developing interests in sewing, carpentry, leatherwork, horticulture.

Why are you here? Ah, the eternal question. Mostly to gain perspective.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): A little over a year ago.

Favorite music: Flower power, new wave, goth, country, some classical, Queen, Madness, DAAS, sountracks from some 80s movies.

Books: My personal library has more books than the nearest public library. Most important book: The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered by John Michael Greer.

TV shows/Movies: Martial arts, dystopian sci-fi, historical and period, comedy.

Instrument: dvd player

Do you like sports? Used to be a martial artist. Now I just watch sports on tv. Sumo, snooker, lawn bowls.

Family: Wife. Kids.

Clothing: Sure. Better than getting arrested. Did goth for a while. Teaching myself to sew and hope to make my own clothes along dystopic punk neo-Victorian lines.

How did you find this website? General research into Aspieanity

Job: aaarrrgghhhhhhh!! !! !! ! Gotta find a job while I still haven't found myself, so I guess I'll hate my next job, which will probably be in a factory.

Plans for the future? Mostly just want the wife and kids to survive what's coming. If I can ride it through with them... well, that'll be a bonus.

Any comments? Wrongplanet rocks!! !

What is your first name? Jareth
Age: 16
Location: Manchester NH
Hobbies and Interests: Math and Video Games
Why are you here? Asperger
When was I diagnosed? to be honest, i was diagnosed when i was 7 years old but never figured it out till i was 14, and i dont seem 2 click well with anybody its like i am the guy nobody ever wants 2 b seen talking with or seen with or something like that.
Favorite music: I hate Music but like select few songs.
Instrument: Never played 1 b4
Do I like Sports? Yes some including hockey and football
Family: A brother, a sister, my mother, and my father
Clothing: depends on the mood
Job: None held thus far
How did i find this site? My therapist reccomended this 4 me
Plans 4 the future? Go 2 college and find a job in game design as well as having a wife and kids
Any Comments? Yes, if there's any Aspy girls that have a love and passion 4 gaming, plz oh plz send me a message and i'm tired of being the guy who has 2 b avoided at all costs and not having been given a decent chance
Books: Lord of the Rings and many others

What is your first name? Jack

Age: 17 and a half

Location: Washington DC

Hobbies and Interests: Listening to music, going to concerts, playing music, record engineering and production.

Why are you here? I have asperger's and ADHD. Im hoping to meet more people like me and interact with the autistic community.

When were you diagnosed? Officially 2 years ago, but my parents had known for much longer.

Favorite subjects: History, music, and the history of music.

Year/Grade: 11th

Favorite music: A lot! Mostly alternative, punk, 60s and early 70s rock, anything thats unique and not in the top 40.
The cure, Jet, the joy formidable, OLD weezer, gruff rhys, devendra banhart, the vines, tame impala, trail of dead, theresa andersson, pink floyd, nirvana, the subways, joy division, and a million others.

Books: Catcher in the rye, here there & everywhere, when i was younger i really got into cs lewis's space trilogy.

TV shows/Movies: Simpsons, south park, rj berger, 300 days of summer, lovely bones

Instrument: Guitar, drums, bass, i sing, and I've tried playing the piano before but never bothered to get good.

Do you like sports? NO!! ! Although i do enjoy biking occasionally.

Family: Dad, mom, younger brother and sister.

Clothing: T shirt and jeans

How did you find this website? When i was researching aspergers

Job: I don't have a real one. I guess playing music, I get paid sometimes.

Plans for the future? Get a job involving music or at a studio, play with other people, and hopefully get to travel. Live independently in a few years with somebody or a group of musicians.

I hope to make a few friends with aspergers so send me a pm if you get the chance.

Any comments? No.

What is your first name? Mike

Age: 25

Location: Chicago

Hobbies and Interests: Jesus, music, basketball, working out

Why are you here? to relate to others with Aspergers

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

Favorite subjects: math

Year/Grade: college grad

Favorite music: hip hop

Books: bible

TV shows/Movies: oblongs, 10,000 black men named George

Instrument: Digital music software

Do you like sports? yes, basketball, football

Family: 1 mom

Clothing: comfy

How did you find this website? searching for aspergers forums

Job: none

Plans for the future? gym teacher

Any comments? nice to be with everyone here, I am here for your support, and may need yours too : )