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Heyy, isn't that where Volvo is based? One of my sisters works for them (although at a location here in the US).

Anyway, about me:


What is your first name? Jon

Age: 27

Location: North Carolina, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Model railroading, photography, cycling, electronics, computers/internet, and the great outdoors.

Why are you here? To see what other Aspies are like

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): First heard of AS a couple years ago and the more I think about it, the more I feel sure I'm Aspie.

Favorite subjects: Digital circuitry, electronic communications theory (modulation schemes, wireless systems, etc).

Year/Grade: I hold a Bachelor's degree.

Favorite music: A rather eclectic mix ranging from bluegrass to metal, classical to techno.

Books: Used to be really into Bernard Cornwell's war novels, haven't done much leisure reading lately aside from the occasional model railroad magazine.

TV shows/Movies: Ronin, LOTR, Bourne trilogy, Hannibal Lecter trilogy (oh wait, there's a fourth one now!)

Instrument: No, I never aquired any musical talent.

Do you like sports? Not much... tho I do like cycling.

Family: Parents, 3 older sisters.

Clothing: Style varies... mostly casual. I do like earth tones though.

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: I work in a hobby shop right now, looking for something more technical

Plans for the future? Find a better job (hopefully near the mountains of N.C.), find a place to live, build a big model railroad or three, fix up a few old cars, and of course remaining open all the while to finding the one that matches me.

Any comments? I'm sleepy. How rare!

What is your first name? ...

Age: 19.

Location: Finland.

Hobbies and Interests: Music, literature, abnormal psychology, cosmology, religions.

Why are you here? I possibly have Asperger's syndrome - and if I don't, I'm a very AS-like NT. When I found this forum, I felt like coming home; it was good to see I'm not the only one who feels like alien, living in the wrong planet.

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

Favorite subjects: Philosophy and art.

Year/Grade: None.

Favorite music: Progressive rock, classic rock, folk, metal, psytrance, trip-hop.

Books: Too many to list.

TV shows/Movies: Six Feet Under, Fight Club, Donnie Darko etc.

Instrument: None.

Do you like sports? No.

Family: Mother, father, little brother and little sister.

Clothing: Mostly black and earthly shades.

How did you find this website? I googled.

Job: I'm currently unemployed.

Plans for the future? Getting my creativity back, getting into the university, being cured of depression. At least I hope that.

Any comments? ...

Age: 26

Location: NC

Hobbies and Interests: math,computers,physics,engineering,neuroscience

Why are you here? looking for people

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): February 2007

Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade:

Favorite music:

Books:

TV shows/Movies:

Instrument:

Do you like sports? running, weights

Family:

Clothing:

How did you find this website?

Job: Engineering R&D

Plans for the future?

Age:23

Location:Michigan

Hobbies and Interests:computers, drawing, human behavior, video games, DDR

Why are you here? to get away from everywhere else

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

Favorite subjects: computers, math, psychology(as an early science, not medicine), a little bit of everything (information overload)

Year/Grade: College Sophmore

Favorite music: 8-bit, industrial, 80's, reggae, ska, classic rock, beethoven, others I can't think of

Books: the whole non-fiction section

TV shows/Movies: House MD, CSI (any version), Nature shows, Planetary shows, things like that on those learning channels

Instrument: Violin, barely, and Voice (I think i sing pretty good, but I sing like a guy)

Do you like sports? no no no no no, i cannot say no enough times.

Family: awful

Clothing: mostly all black, soft, breathable, and highly non-seductive

How did you find this website? massive internet research

Job: computer lab assistant at my college (very much below my skill level)

Plans for the future? Computer Forensics, Systems Administrator, Ethical Hacker

Any comments? So when does the mother ship come to pick us up?

What is your first name? Pierre

Age: 17

Location: Sweden: Småland: Värnamo: Fjärhult. I hear sweden has more aspergians than the global average.

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, gaming, anime+manga and thinking sums it up good.

Why are you here? Thought I should check it up. It may be something I'll find useful one of these days.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Well, I certainly have a disorder, I and all who know me somewhat have always known that. No professional diagnosis, however.

Favorite subjects: School-wise? I don't like school. Specificly I don't like being graded. I quite disliked home-economics-stuff, but there is no particular highlight.

Year/Grade: 2nd year gymnasium.

Favorite music: I like most music. Rock a little more, "gangsta" a lot less.

Books: Kawabata Yasunari's "Kyoto", the one and only "Hitchhiker's Guide", and Susana Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel".

TV shows/Movies: House

Instrument: Favourite instrument? I've always liked the harmonica, but my dad got annoyingly enthusiastic when I wanted to learn it, so I've dropped it till further notice. I do whistle not so shabbyly though...

Do you like sports? No, not as such, no. Except maybe racket sports such as badminton. Those kind of excite me. Hate sweating very much, so I keep stillish.

Family: My parents have their competences, and I am quite fond of my cousins and my uncle Antonio who's name I bear. Anton is a gifted electrician and incredibly sharp and well read.

Clothing: Breathable, covering, sturdy. I really like short-shafted working-boots of the highest quality, which I often wear regardless of season. Colors are dark shades and possibly white.

How did you find this website? 1 word: Wikipedia.

Job: Nope.

Plans for the future? Finding constant company, ensuring decent income and taking it easy. Time-consuming careers I will never fully understand.

Any comments? More than my standard nagging line: "I'm lonely"? No.

Hello, all:

First name: Douglas

Age: 43

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Hobbies and interests: Chess, bridge, surfing the Net

Why am I here: Because I'm here, roll the bones (roll the bones)

When diagnosed: September, 1997

Favorite subjects: Sociology, psychology, occupational therapy

Year/Grade: Master of Arts, received from University of Alberta in November, 1997

Favorite music: classic rock, easy listening

Books: Usually non-fiction

TV shoes/movies: mainly sports

Instrument: played clarinet and bass clarinet in school concert bands

Like sports: participate in walking; I like ice hockey, Canadian or American football
(hard to get Aussie Rules this side of the Pacific Ocean), baseball, curling, and so on

Family: Never married, 1 brother, 1 sister

Clothing: Friday casual

How I found this: Internet surfing

Job: Research Resource Person

Future plans: get off welfare if I can

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What is your first name? Chris

Age: 16

Location: North Carolina, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Computers, Video Games, Internet, Racing, Bowling, Golf

Why are you here? To talk to people, and maybe find someone to hang out with IRL

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): So long ago that I can't remember

Favorite subjects: Any computer class

Year/Grade: 9th

Favorite music: Mostly Video Game Music, but just about anything without profanity

Books: Whatever interests me

TV shows/Movies: Cartoons

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? Not really

Family: 2 parents, and 2 younger sisters

Clothing: Whatever I pull out in the morning on weekends, and collared shirts and kakhi pants or jeans on school days (Dress code)

How did you find this website? Referred to me by group home treatment team

Job: None yet

Plans for the future? To go to college and get a degree in Computer Engineering

Any comments? If you live near me, please don't hesitate to PM me saying so. I live in the Cabarrus County area, near Concord and Kannapolis.

First name: MJ

Age: 15

Hobbies and interest: painting, anything creative I guess. And I collect wristbands, scrunchies and I LOVE butterflies

Why are you here?: because I'm diagnosed with Asperger

When where you diagnosed?: A couple of weeks ago

Favorite subjects: Maths, science and English I guess

Favorite music: Evanescence, Lost Prophets, Three Days Grace, Smile Empty Soul, HIM and many more

tv shows/movies: I LOVE Prison Break & The Bourne Supremacy

How did you find the website?: Google!

Plans future: Healing from my depression and getting a fulfilling life.

What is your first name? ID: 2293844 No really, Uric.

Age: 17

Location: Miami, FL.

Hobbies and Interests: They fluctuate and fleet, as of now my hobbies are- WoW ((I might leave, I've exhausted all my endgame guilds on the server, I get kicked from everyone without a rational reason. It's either, 'You don't fit in the guild' or, 'it's the age difference'.)) I rant a lot, probably could tell, most ranting people like to elaborate on things because a simple vague answer could be taken in a plethora of ways. It's not my style to be overly verbose, I like to use words I deem that are the best to convey the meaning I'm trying to express. More hobbies: Piano, Poetry... Reading.

Why are you here? I don't know, my friend with auspies figured since I've never been diagnosed and we're so alike, that I try out this forum and see if I could get a consensus from you guys. Also, I wouldn't mind joining a forum, I don't have anyone else to talk to, by choice and isolation... Most people are so intolerable.

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

Favorite subjects: Math, English, Science... Computers, Programming.

Year/Grade: 11th

Favorite music: There's no genre I like inparticular more so than any other, it's really the artist. If I list artists, people automatically assume I condone every single piece of work they did, since I described that, don't assume so. A Perfect Circle, Slipknot, MIDIs, Placebo...

Books: Snow Crash..

TV shows/Movies: Don't remember.

Instrument: Piano

Do you like sports? Not really, though I do enjoy working out.. Well, being fit anyways.

Family: Me, myself, and I.

Clothing: Uh, I like tight clothes. I like the feel against my skin, usually cotton. Things with witty quotes generally..

How did you find this website? Friend.

Job: Not yet.

Plans for the future? Still introspecting.

Any comments? Send me a private message if you think of anything to say...

What is your first name? Lynn

Age: 33

Location: South Carolina

Hobbies and Interests: Scrapbooking, sports, cooking

Why are you here? ds 6, is autistic

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

Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade:

Favorite music: Rock, Country

Books: Novels, suspense

TV shows/Movies: Gray's Anatomy, American Idol, Days of our lives

Instrument: played clarinet in HS

Do you like sports? yes, college baseball and football

Family: two sons, 6 and 4 months and dh

Clothing: comfey in tshirt and shorts with flip flops

How did you find this website? google

Job: Social Worker

Plans for the future? living day by day

Any comments?

What is your first name? Phillip

Age: 18

Location: South Wales

Hobbies and Interests: Music

Why are you here? So that i can chat with other people who have AS

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I think i was about 8 years old

Favorite subjects: I'm not a school person

Year/Grade: In College

Favorite music: I love all kinds of music. I'm not close minded about any style of music

Books: Atlantas found

TV shows/Movies: The Simpsons

Instrument: Keyboards and Guitar

Do you like sports? I like Basketball

Family: Mother, Father, Grandmother, loads of cousions, aunts and uncles

Clothing: Jeans and T.shirt

How did you find this website? Searched on google about info on AS and i found it by accident really

Job: Work part time at a supermarker

Plans for the future? To hopefully do something with music

Any comments? Yeah. Thank you to those people who work to make the world a better place

What is your first name? Ginny.

Age: Fifteen.

Location: Holland at the moment. Draggg.

Hobbies and Interests: My interests are mostly music/musician-related. Other than that, London, Edgar Allen Poe, The Moors Murderers (I'm no lunatic, just quite interested in true crime stories and that.) Old horror/sf films. Carry On Films.

Why are you here? To talk to people.

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

Favorite subjects: I violently dislike school.

Year/Grade: Year 10.

Favorite music: Punk/New wave/post-punk made between 1976-1979. Electronic music. Bowie. Velvets. T.Rex. Roxy Music. Adam and the Ants. Screaming Lord Sutch.

Books: Poe. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

TV shows/Movies: Only Fools and Horses. A Clockwork Orange. Carry On...Up The Khyber.

Instrument: Bass guitar. I would kill for a synthesizer, too.

Do you like sports? Absolutely bloody not.

Family: Mum, dad, dog.

Clothing: Why, yes.

How did you find this website? Was looking up AS.

Job: Paper round.

Plans for the future? Move back to London.

First name: Christian (true name)

Age: 29

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Hobbies and Interests: computers, books, aviation (did I say transports?)

Why are you here? This is the most interesting nontechnical and nonscientific website I could find. Socially it must be the most appealing site ever.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Social phobia in 2002, AS in 2005

Favorite subjects: In school: mathematics and physics, at university: machine learning, algorithmics, data mining

Year/Grade: Finishing MS in computer sciences this year

Favorite music: classical music, espcially Chopin, Liszt and others, some Russian composers, especially Prokovjev, the early Rachmaninov and others, any music where instruments are played by people's hands

Books: Tolkien, the Harry Potter books, John le Carre, history fact books, aviation books (add a whole lot of nonfictional literature here)

TV shows/Movies: Star Trek (but no TNG), Lord of the Rings, Emergency Room, Scrubs, Dr. House and others

Instrument: wanted to play piano but had to play guitar in school

Do you like sports? No team sports and not competitive, never. Not for money. Mountainbiking is great. There might be others I yet failed to try.

Family: yes, two parents (not going into detail here) and grandparents, no siblings (never missed them)


Clothing: jeans (black or blue) and shirts, T- shirts are okay too but not at the job or at university

How did you find this website? It did not hide very well from Google.

Job: Graduate assistant at an AI research institute, software engineer

Plans for the future? Either going for a PhD or making a lot of money. Since I am going to be 30 this year I might decide for the latter.

Any comments? Who finds spelling mistakes can keep them. PMs and emails(not about said mistakes) welcome.

What is your first name? Not here... Quirk will do fine for now.

Age: 34

Location: Toronto, Canada

Hobbies and Interests: World travel, hiking, gardening, exotic food, scuba, guitar, skiing, etymology, flora & fauna, lots of outdoor stuff

Why are you here? self-discovery/learn more about AS

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

Favorite subjects: My loyal ones... I mean geography

Year/Grade: 2007... duh!

Favorite music: Tons! Beatles (later stuff), Grateful Dead, Wilco, velvet Underground, Radiohead, Beck and so on (mostly classic rock but I like off-beat modern stuff an some retro 80s). Also like Reggae/Dub, Blues and late 50's/early 60's jazz

Books: Brave new World, Anything by Vonnegut, East of Eden, any fiction that takes place in foreign countries (especially with a historical bent)

TV shows/Movies: TV:Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Law & Order, Pilot Guides, Jeopardy, Hockey Night in Canada. Movies: Star Wars, The Shining (lots of other horror), Good Fellas (and lots of other mafia movies), anything that takes place somewhere exotic especially based on foriegn politics (Last King of Scotland, Salvador, etc.)

Instrument: Guitar and drums

Do you like sports? Not playing but I love hockey

Family: Mother, 2 brothers, a neice and 2 nephews

Clothing: jeans (or shorts) and t-shirt. very casual. I'm koumpounophobic (look it up)

How did you find this website? Wikipedia

Job: Admin.

Plans for the future? Diagnosis and more travel!

Any comments? Hi, Mom!! !

What is your first name? Ophelia, of course (Maybe...

Age: 25

Location: The Savage Garden

Hobbies and Interests: Various things, travel & outdoors, fine art, literature & music

Why are you here? I have Asperger's

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

Favorite subjects: Animals, Music, Travel

Year/Grade: 2007 Med School

Favorite music: Jazz

Books: Works of literary art

TV shows/Movies: Old movies & History

Instrument: Piano- 22 years, Trumpet- 15 years, Bari Sax- on occasion, Bass (Upright or Electric) - 12 years

Do you like sports? Yes

Family: Mostly alright ;P

Clothing: Leather... (J/K)

How did you find this website? I can't remember!

Job: Med School

Plans for the future? See the world

Any comments? Not really