auntblabby
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31 Mar 2021, 10:47 pm
^^^welcome to our club 
02 Apr 2021, 11:04 am
04 Apr 2021, 12:56 pm
What is your first name? Jodie
Age: 43
Location: South East UK
Hobbies and Interests: Cats and photography
Why are you here? To connect with other autistic people
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): when I was 39 (so 4 years ago)
Favorite subjects: Coins and cats
Year/Grade:
Favorite music: Rock
Books: I quite like historical fiction
TV shows/Movies: Crime
Instrument: I prefer listening to them!
Do you like sports? Watching, yes. I like going to gym bit I guess that isn't sport eh
Family:
Clothing: Comfy, soft and not tight.
How did you find this website? Linked in a FB post
Job: I'm an Expert by Experiance for the Neurodevelopmental service. I help develop and deliver causes to autistic adults, based on my own personal experience
Plans for the future? I am rubbish at planning a future. I go with the flow and see where I end up!
Any comments? 
auntblabby
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06 Apr 2021, 11:45 pm
^^^welcome to our club, you seem to have the great benefit of being in your niche. 
07 Apr 2021, 4:36 am
13 Apr 2021, 11:52 am
auntblabby
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13 Apr 2021, 3:14 pm
^^^welcome to our club, EN 
15 Apr 2021, 8:40 am
What is your first name? Wouldnt you like to know? 
you can just use my screen name
Age: 25
Location: MURICA
Hobbies and Interests:
running hiking camping... currently dipping my toes into free diving
Why are you here?
Wanted to put myself out there a bit and talk with new people
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 7 years old
Favorite subjects: science, math, and lunch
Year/Grade: College
Favorite music: rock, heavy metal but i listen to most types of music
Books: anything written by Dostoevsky, A roadside picnic, and the forgotten highlander
TV shows/Movies: Dr. Who, Heat, you were never really here, too many to list from too many different genres.
Instrument: Triangle! The instrument of choice for someone who has never played an instrument.
Do you like sports? Love them was on the track team and participated in most sports either training players or just participating
Family: ummm cousins nieces and nephews? Also my adoptive father
Clothing: I keep it simple jeans and a T Shirt or I'm in the woods wearing a bunch of old milsurp gear
How did you find this website? Recommended by an autism organization that dealt with me years ago
Job: IT/independent contractor
Plans for the future? Increase my savings do more things I love maybe snatch up a wife at some point.
auntblabby
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16 Apr 2021, 12:47 am
^^^welcome and i wish you luck with the wife bit.
19 Apr 2021, 2:38 am
Age: Twenties
Location: U.S.
Hobbies and Interests: Dog training, paleontology, writing, drawing, music
Why are you here? To be able to communicate with other autistics
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Officially about a year and a half ago or so, but I was self diagnosed years before that
Favorite subjects: Algebra, music, writing, German
Year/Grade: Just starting college
Favorite music: Mostly soundtracks from musicals (top two right now being Hamilton and Hadestown), movies (I love John Powell's work), and some videogames. But lately it's mostly been Hamilton and John Powell.
Books: Fantasy, some favorites - The Inheritance Cycle, the Lunar Chronicles, The Last Olympian and Heroes of Olympus, and of course the usual fantasy standby: Harry Potter. I love rereading comforting, familiar books. Though for new books I'm currently reading Rise of Kyoshi and Underdogs. I can't quite seem to keep my attention on non-fiction, even when I'm interested in the subject, but some other 'favorites' that deserve to be on the list are some dog training books by some of my favorite instructors, I currently have the Training Levels, Awesome Obedience, Control Unleashed, and I'm excitedly awaiting a copy of Enjoying Agility that I nabbed off Amazon.
TV shows/Movies: Last Airbender I think might be the best tv show I've seen, The Office is my usual go-to comfort show, then there's also How I Met Your Mother and MASH. Movies are harder to say, the first things that come to mind are Into the Spiderverse, While You Were Sleeping, How to Train Your Dragon, Pink Panther (with Steve Martin), The Princess Bride, and I don't know. I know I'm forgetting some, but those were the first that popped into my head. I don't watch movies a ton as I find it difficult to stay in place and do one thing for such a long time, so I mostly watch tv shows and YouTube videos.
Instrument: Trumpet is absolutely my heart instrument; I adored playing it and I love hearing a good trumpet in music. I also love the piano - its versatility is unbeatable, in my opinion. I can't think of anything that can't be adapted to the piano and not sound good, if composed right. And it has such a beautiful sound.
Do you like sports? No, I've never liked team activities and the only solo sport I ever really participated in was a fencing class some years ago - that was fun, if not for scheduling and my health I'd love to do that again.
Family: I have an older brother
Clothing: Comfort is the most important thing, if it's not comfortable I will not wear it.
How did you find this website? By a Google search for an autism forum
Job: Student
Plans for the future? Right now I'm learning to live with a recently diagnosed chronic illness, so it's hard to make plans; I'm not sure what my abilities will be a year or even months from now. And then I'm not sure what I want to do, I think being a professor would be a great job - getting to talk about a special interest all day! - but I don't know if it's the best fit for me. I wanted to be a professional dog trainer for a long time, but not anymore - much as I love dog training, I want something regular and stable, and I don't want to own my own business. If I went into animal behavior, then perhaps as a zoo trainer or a researcher (I'm fascinated by studies in animal intelligence and communication).
Any comments? My favorite dinosaurs are archaeopteryx, microraptor...and I'm a little biased towards cockatiels as I live with one 
I also have three small dogs.
19 Apr 2021, 7:04 am
Location: U.S.
Hobbies and Interests: Dog training, paleontology, writing, drawing, music
Why are you here? To be able to communicate with other autistics
Plans for the future? Right now I'm learning to live with a recently diagnosed chronic illness, so it's hard to make plans; I'm not sure what my abilities will be a year or even months from now. And then I'm not sure what I want to do, I think being a professor would be a great job - getting to talk about a special interest all day! - but I don't know if it's the best fit for me. I wanted to be a professional dog trainer for a long time, but not anymore - much as I love dog training, I want something regular and stable, and I don't want to own my own business. If I went into animal behavior, then perhaps as a zoo trainer or a researcher (I'm fascinated by studies in animal intelligence and communication).
Any comments? My favorite dinosaurs are archaeopteryx, microraptor...and I'm a little biased towards cockatiels as I live with one
I also have three small dogs.Do you know if its settled around birds being a living dino? I'm also amazed by any hint on how nature works, my favourite tidbit is the simple but effective rules insects seem to follow. Like ants 'if anyone is trying to walk on your body grab hold of anything wirthin reach with all legs and keep holding until no one walks on top of you'. Its how ants make bridges etc with their bodies. Only a few neurons is needed to do this.
Edit:
Dont let any problem control your life more than necessary, go on do anything you want and can do, until you cant anymore. Then do the next thing you want to do.
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auntblabby
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21 Apr 2021, 4:58 am
^^^great news about your weight loss and welcome to our club 
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