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What is your first name? Ashley

Age: 18

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Hobbies and Interests: Coffee, tea (origin, nuance, aroma, roast, steeping / brewing methods; I'm sort of obsessed), Coney Island, Veganism / Macro-Vegetarianism / Raw-foodism (I don't practice any of these anymore), Emergency Medicine & Services

Why are you here? I'm here because I suspect I have Asperger's.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): My mother is a physician - her psychologist friends suggested I see a specialist when I was 12. I never pursued it. Six years later, I am now in the diagnostic process. Let's see what the doctors say...

Favorite subjects: Back in high school? Chemistry, Biology, Astrophysics, Logic (Math) - sort of a sub-subject, but I was bonkers about it.

Year / Grade: I haven't been in school in over a year and a half.

Favorite music: Anti-folk, Folk, Baroque Pop, Trip-Hop

Books: Hesse, Pessoa, Sartre, Zinsser, Salter, Safran Foer

TV shows/Movies: I was never one for television, but these three caught my interest in strikingly different ways: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Twin Peaks and House

Instrument: I've fooled around with a classical guitar

Do you like sports? No. I can run distance.

Family: Two moms (yes, they're gay), two sisters - bio mom and bio sister probably both have AS

Clothing: Blouses and clogs because I'm trying to finally grow up

How did you find this website? Oh, I'm sure WP popped up at some point during my AS research... I frequented this site for months before joining in on the discussion.

Job: bookstore clerk & non-profit work

Plans for the future? EMS, college, friendship

Any comments?

Name: Will not give due to privacy reasons.

Age: 16

Location: Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Sport, seaching the internet.

Why are you here. To gain more perspective and insight into my condition.

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

Favorite subjects: Science

Year/Grade: Grade 11.

Favorite music: None.

Books: Science related magazines and books.

TV shows/Movies: Adventures of Merlin, Doctor Who, and the invaders.

Instrument: None.

Do you like sports? Yes, cricket, touch, soccer.

Family: One younger sister and one younger brother.

Clothing: Generally shorts with a t shirt, nothing too fancy.

How did you find this website? By searching on the web one day.

Job: None

Plans for the future? Not sure at the moment

Any comments? Not much, althrough looking forward to participating on this website.

Name: Catherine

Age: 17

Location: United Kingdom

Hobbies and Interests: Trains (mostly diesel), transport, industry, history, philosophy, politics, music...

Why are you here? I'd like to make new friends.

When were you diagnosed?Referred at six, diagnosed at seven.

Favorite subjects: At school? History.

Year/Grade: I would be in S6/Y13 if I was still at school. I'll be starting a college course after the summer.

Favorite music: Jazz of all kinds, ambient/electronica, prog/Krautrock, prog/psych folk, post-rock, post-punk, most variants of Western 'classical', traditional Hindustani music, traditional Mali music.

Books: Non-fiction books, usually concerning the interests I listed above. I like to keep my ABC Rail Guide and Trucker's Atlas close for comfort-related reasons.

TV shows: The Thick of It, The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge, The Office (BBC version), Monty Python's Flying Circus...

Movies: Kubrick, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Gilliam, Scorsese, Tarantino and Lynch are my favourite directors. I also have a slight obsession with the film Withnail and I.

Instrument: Piano.

Do you like sports? I hate them. I don't even like to watch the big sporting events like Wimbledon and the Olympics.

Family: I live with both of my parents. I don't have any siblings.

Clothing: Jeans, t-shirt, my trusty cagoule.

How did you find this website? T'internet.

Job: None.

Plans for the future? None.

Any comments?

Age: 25

Location: The Midwestern US

Hobbies and Interests: Chess and other board games, traveling, watching baseball

Favorite music: Rock and alternative, but I can enjoy just about anything other than gangster rap and mainstream country.


Do you like sports? I love sports, especially basketball and baseball, and I follow the Kansas City Royals.

What is your first name?
Sarah

Age:
27

Location:
Adelaide in South Australia

Hobbies and Interests:
I love to read, LOVE my PS3, adore music-it takes me to places I can be truly be happy. I love to do crafts, love to watch AFL (Aussie Rules Football), love animals, love watching documentaries-especially ones on WW2 and world history.

Why are you here?
ASD, my 5 year old daughter is ASD also. I just want to 'be around' people who understand why I don't like answering the phone, and who get that I feel like an alien.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
I was misdiagnosed as depression and bipolar for years but finally am on the way to getting the truth. We are positive of an ASD diagnoses but just waiting on that final report now.

Favorite subjects:
I'm not in school anymore, but my favourite subjects to research and bore people with are World War 2 and the Nazi regime, World history-in particular Roman history and Ancient Egypt and the data statistics and percentages of the AFL ladder.

Year/Grade:
I'm 27, my last year at school was 2002, so I've been out of school for 10 years lol

Favorite music:
It would be truly impossible for me to pick only 1 or 2 genres.
At the moment my fave band is The Fray, loving Newton Faulkner, have a soft spot for Italian opera.
Clair de Lune carries me out of my own mind for a fraction of time.
Music and animals are the only 2 things in life that make me feel like everything is ok.

Books:
Loving the 50 Shades of Grey series at the moment
Love The Hunger Games and Harry Potter.
Stephen King and Patricia Cornwell fan.

TV shows/Movies:
Don't watch a lot of TV, but when I do I enjoy 'Escape to the Country', 'Hoarders' and NCIS.

Instrument:
I can play trumpet reasonably well, little bit of piano and I sing.
I spent many years training in trumpet and singing.

Do you like sports?
I love sports. Part of my tomboy personality. AFL, soccer, ice hockey, and UFC.

Family:
I'm a single parent to 3 children-
A 9 year old girl, 7 year old boy and 5 year old girl who is also ASD.

Clothing:
I have a penchant for Adidas trackpants, hoodies from the mens section and sneakers.
I hate skirts and dresses and only wear them to things like weddings.
Comfort and functionality is my utmost priority.
I remove all tags before wearing anything lol.

How did you find this website?
'Googling 'I feel like I'm from another planet or something'.....

Job:
I don't work however I do volunteer 32hrs a week at my childrens school.

Plans for the future?
I just don't know.

Any comments?
I'm new here. Hi!

What is your first name? Randy

Age: 54

Location: York PA

Hobbies and Interests: music reading

Why are you here? Suffer from Asperger's

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2012-6-7

Favorite subjects: music, history

Year/Grade: master's degree +

Favorite music: opera, oratorio

Books: grout--a history of western music

TV shows/Movies: n/a

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First name: Shane

Age:23

Location:Great Bend,( well, nine miles outside the 'city' limit)

Hobbies and Interests:chemistry, reading, writing, strategy, martial arts, pole weapons, animals,irony, Ancient Egypt, Geography, Writing systems, video games, Chinese history, Star Wars

Why are you here? To meet and interact with other people have Asperger' Syndrome

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
I was diagnosed between second and fourth grades.
Favorite subjects:
Chemistry, English, Biology,
Year/Grade: I haven't gone to school in at least three years

Favorite music: Rock, old Country, Acid Trance, Ambient Trance, also trying to broaden my musical tastes.

Books:Harry Potter series, Halo Series, Star Wars: Republic Commando (series) , several other fictions, various non-fiction in my interests.

TV shows/Movies:Young Justice, Star Wars episodes 1-6, N.C.I.S, Bones, Through The Wormhole, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Halo Origins, various others.

Instrument:none

Do you like sports?Mini-golf, pool, darts.

Family:A mom, a stepmother, a father a sister, 4 dogs, and several cats

Clothing: Generally , casual, whatever feels the most comfortable.

How did you find this website? A link on a different website

Job: Currently looking for one

Plans for the future? Become an author, start a family, own a house with many hidden rooms, secret passage-ways, land on an exosolar planet, or maybe just discover a new one and name it.

Any comments? For some reason the most memerable quote I've read was "When the game is over, both the king and the pawn go in the same box"- Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey's mother, after she faced her daughter and won for the first and last time, the other quotes that stick out in my mind are very poetic and very distubing ( due to several refernces to the grave).

What is your first name? Pass.

Age: Early twenties.

Location: Southern U.S.A.

Hobbies and Interests: Music, computers, the Internet, tech, TV series, marketing, business news, political ideology, U.S. culture and geography, comedy, traveling, writing, daydreaming, etc.

Why are you here? I think I might have Asperger's, but have yet to talk to my therapist about it.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Clinical depression in 2006, panic syndrome in 2007, and ADHD in 2012.

Favorite subjects: When I was still in school it used to be English, my native language, and the social sciences.

Year/Grade: High school graduate, no college.

Favorite music: Hip-hop, electronic, and folk. But I can enjoy almost any type of music. Sometimes naturally, sometimes if I put my mind to it.

Books: I don't read nearly as many books as I'd like to. I have a hard time concentrating and dedicating to it. Therefore, most of my reading is done online.

TV shows/Movies: TV Shows would be Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 30 Rock, Gilmore Girls, Breaking Bad, Freaks and Geeks, Futurama, Family Guy, Workaholics, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show , The Colbert Report, How I Met Your Mother, Weeds, and Community. Movies would be The Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Office Space, Magnolia, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, Kill Bill 1&2, Stranger Than Fiction, My Own Private Idaho, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, City of God, and The Ten.

Instrument: Voice.

Do you like sports? No.

Family: Separated parents, one younger sister. They live overseas and I don't see them very much.

Clothing: Sometimes urban/hip-hop, sometimes plain as day, and sometimes weird attempts at "hip" and well-matched clothes. But I have no idea what I'm doing, and the one consistency in my style would be that I almost never dress my age.

How did you find this website? A thread was linked from another message board.

Job: I work in an office.

Plans for the future? Yes.

Any comments? Nope.

What is your first name? Jasmine

Age: 21

Location: New Zealand

Hobbies and Interests: Movies, gaming, writing, reading

Why are you here? I wanted to find a place where I could be myself.

When were you diagnosed? 7 Years old for Asperger's, 11 years old for Tourettes, 17 years old for OCD and Social Anxiety.

Favorite subjects: English, Science/ Physics

Favorite music: Enter Shikari, Daft Punk

Books: A Door Into Ocean, Citizen of the Galaxy, Beyond The Veil of Stars, Pet Cemetary

TV shows/Movies: 24, Heroes, X-Files, Babylon 5, Space 1999, The Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek

Instrument: Piano, Guitar

Do you like sports? Martial Arts

Clothing: Jeans and a sweatshirt

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Video Store clerk

Plans for the future? I would love to be a writer one day.

Any comments? Didn't want to start a new thread, this seems like a good enough intro.

Hi, n00b here. I missed the instructions and already posted elsewhere first because doing things wrong is how I roll. :/

What is your first name? I've been stalked and therefore no longer have a first name in places like this.

Age: 33

Location: New York

Hobbies and Interests: gardening/urban homesteading, architecture, digital painting, camping, politics (anarchist), philosophy, psychology, biomimicry, mythology, World of Warcraft

Why are you here? at this point I'm sure I have ASD, so: support, information, comparing notes, etc.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I can't seek a diagnosis at this time

Favorite subjects: art & art history, literature, math, psych, philosophy

Year/Grade: Have a master's, working on my second bachelor's.

Favorite music: alternative and post-rock

Books: sci-fi and fantasy, especially Tolkien.

TV shows/Movies: I don't watch many.

Instrument: Guitar, piano, viola.

Do you like sports? Nope, unless swimming counts.

Family: Married with kids. My husband and oldest child have AS traits.

Clothing: jeans, long skirts, knit tops, sandals

How did you find this website? I don't remember, I've been lurking for a long time

Job: substitute teacher

Plans for the future? Get a job that requires less socializing while studying architecture and art.

Any comments? *awkward silence*

What is your first name? Elisabeth

Age: 22

Location: Georgia

Hobbies and interest: My hobbies are collecting dolls, crocheting, reading, writing, and shopping. My interests are biology, chemistry, astrophysics, stars, astronomy, criminology, food chemistry, psychology, and etc. As you can see I have great deal of interests

Why are you here? I am here because I wanted to meet other people with Asperger's so that I won't so alone in the world.

When were you diagnosed? May 23

Favorite subjects: Biology, French, and Art

Family: I have a mom, dad, and a younger brother non of them have Asperger's.

Year/grade: senior in college

Favorite music: traditional gospel, contemporary gospel and Korean music.

My favorite book is Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

My favorite television programs are The Big Bang theory, Arthur, I Love Lucy, the Jack Benny program, Are You Being Served?, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, and The Twilight Zone.

What is your first name? No, don't think so.

Age: Twenties.

Location: South Canada

Hobbies and Interests: travelling, pop sci, journalling, self-help, recovery, painting, running, yoga, ballet, theatre, social justice, decolonization....

Why are you here? I have lots of Asperger's symptoms, but I haven't been diagnosed... here for support. Apparently I also have depression. I have to keep telling it things and people have to tell me things so that it goes away for a while...

Favorite subjects: literary theory, psychology, philosophy, sociology, disability studies, art history

Year/Grade: Working on second degree.

Favorite music: anything, really: indie, industrial, classical, jazz, klezmer, opera, rap, pop, latin, and of course, metal...

Books: Some I've read several times:The English Patient, Anna Karenina, The Passion, Rent Girl, Steppenwolf... Currently reading Infinite Jest which feels like 100 books in one. Thought I should mention it because I'm proud: this book is so big and heavy, and yo my arms are totally getting ripped just holding the damn thing.

TV shows/Movies: TV Shows: Freaks and Geeks, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, Whose line is it anyway, Flight of the Conchords, The I.T. Crowd, Drawn Together, etc. etc.

Movies: Bladerunner, Wings of Desire, The Big Lebowski, The English Patient, 500 Days of Summer, Seven Samurai, Desperate Living, pretty much anything written, directed or produced by Judd Apatow & Co. Really, really likes Sam Peckinpah and Fassbinder. Enjoys French films of beautiful women being insane with a great accent.

Instrument: Used to play piano, now I suck at it. I sing in the shower now, and I'm awesome at that.

Do you like sports? I don't do well with organized competitive sports, but I'm not adverse to kicking balls for fun. Like, soccer balls.

Family: "alive" and "well". Could be better, but that's family.

Clothing: Varies. Described as goth, artsy, classic, or that I look like a dancer, or a teacher for an alternative high school, whatever that means. I think I know what that means.

How did you find this website? Google search, looking for other people who had issues with social skills.

Job: Recently unemployed, currently attending uni.

Plans for the future? Yes, watch out world.

Any comments? Glad to be here!

What is your first name? Christina

Age: 39

Location: Virginia Beach, VA

Hobbies and Interests: Psychology, Special Education, Nutrition

Why are you here? To relate, to learn, to find comfort in the thoughts of others.

Year/Grade: Starting my master's degree

Favorite music: Nothing with too much chaos

TV shows/Movies: I watch way too much tv.

Do you like sports? Love sports!! ! I was a gymnast for years

Family: husband to be, mom (special ed teacher), dad (business owner), sister (hates me most of the time)

Clothing: Used to be fashionable. Now I wear whatever is comfy.

How did you find this website? google

Job: Tutor for children with various neurological conditions.

Plans for the future? Finish master's degree and help families with children with ASD understand each other and the needs and wants of the child.

Any comments? I want to learn how to help the kids I work with communicate and have a voice. I want them to be the individuals that they are and feel comfortable in their own skin. I also want to understand myself, my quirks, my pain, and my differences. I feel so lucky to have found this website!

What is your first name? Dominique

Age: 36

Location: California

Hobbies and Interests: Film, Art, Music, Medicine, Languages, Books

Why are you here? I have Asperger's Syndrome

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

Favorite subjects: Microbiology, Physiology, Pathophysiology, any language, art

Year/Grade: DONE with school

Favorite music: Right now I am really into Vampire Weekend, but my eternal favorites are PJ Harvey and Nick Cave

Books: Any text book on medicine/diseases, The Merck Manual, Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine (copywrite: 1896!) etc. etc. etc. ...aside from all the medical stuff I like the diaries of Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Milan Kundera, and Marguerite Duras

TV shows/Movies: I don't watch TV. I am obsessed with any movie starring (or co-starring) Portugese actress Maria de Medeiros, many of you may know her as the part of "Fabienne" in Pulp Fiction. Me and You and Everyone We Know, Ghost World, We Need to Talk about Kevin (I probably capitalized incorrectly), I Think We're Alone Now, documentaries, Amelie, foreign fims...etc. etc. etc.

Instrument: When I was a child I used to play the violin. When I was a teenager I played the guitar. Now I am kind of a loser and don't play anything.

Do you like sports? No. Except running. I like ballet too (is that a sport?) it has helped tremendously in my posture and coordination (I took private lessons-at my mom's urging- as a teenager because I couldn't deal with the thought of a class with other people. I hated it at the time, but it has been invaluable to me in improving my overall clumsiness/dorkiness)

Family: They are pretty much all dead now.

Clothing: I wear the same thing most of the time. I buy ten of the same color and type of shirt(s). I like very plain, uniform-ish looking clothes. I love the colors black, navy blue, khaki, burgundy, and grey. I will only ever wear dark socks

How did you find this website? I typed "Asperger's support" in google

Job: I work in a laboratory at a hospital

Plans for the future? I have several degrees in other disciplines (I'm a Registered Nurse, Bachelors in Anthropology/Archaeology, Make-up Artist)...I want to figure out some way to utilize my accomplishments (ie. WORK) with having the least amount of contact with other people as possible

Any comments? Not really.

What is your first name? Anthony

Age: 22

Location: California

Hobbies and Interests: Math, Libertarianism, Entrepreneurship, Video games

Why are you here? Support

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2012

Favorite subjects: Math, Finance

Year/Grade: Senior in College

Favorite music: All

Books: Don't feel like sharing

TV shows/Movies: None really

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? Playing sports, yes, but not watching team sports.

Family: A sister and a brother

Clothing: Casual but I like preppy too

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Student

Plans for the future? Graduate college and get a job

Any comments? No, but I guess this is a comment in itself.