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I started to put "New troll here" (warcraft quote) for the title but I know just enough about forums to realize that sends the wrong message.

Anyway, I don't know if I have Asperger's or not (there's actually check box for that lol) and I'm too poor to afford to get looked at. I have several of the symptoms and have epilepsy (very mild and extremely rare seizure wise). I read some where that epilepsy cohabitates with autism in somewhere around 1/3 of the cases.

Anyway, epilepsy and probably apserger's was from my father. My mother used to get mad at me and say I was just like my father whenever I would start rambling on about some odd topic. My father left when I was 3 so the epilepsy and his rambling are about all I know of him.

I found out about apserger's a few years ago from a youtube vid and it was the first time I had heard all the strange things I do summed up under one name. After that I wandered the net doing research and found WrongPlanet. I'm not really here looking for someone confirm my suspicions or anything. Honestly, my plan was to lurk around a bit, gather some info and move on to the next source, but I keep wanting to respond to posts here. For me its kinda weird since I'm not a chatter or a forum type of guy (or even communicative).

Anyway, I hope its ok to wander in here and attempt the whole interactive thing, I don't really have a clue to the etiquette of forums. Also, forgive me if this post is a bit rambling (and forgive the excessive use of the word Anyway), Ive been up for about 20 hour.

Welcome to WrongPlanet, Mazeut!

Hi Mazeut, welcome, and enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

To WrongPlanet!! !

"I got ax for you"
"What'chu wanna kill?"

Nah, I suppose using either of those "Troll quotes" wouldn't work so well either (Warcraft ref, same unit for those thinking I've gone nuts suddenly)

Welcome aboard! How did you deal with epilepsy in the face of being a gamer? Aren't there a lot of twitchy/glitzy triggers in most of today's games?

Thanks for the replies.

As for the epilepsy, its very mild. No one even knows I have it. Flashing lights don't effect me or anything. I've only ever passed out from seizures 3 times, once when I was 5, 16 and 28. I wake up feeling like I'm drunk and shot up with adrenaline. The regular seizures just make me feel like I'm gonna hyperventilate.

Wow, though, I never thought about the flashing lights in games. I'm glad it doesn't effect me, I'd go nuts if I couldn't blow something up once a day (pixels I mean).

Hey Mazeut,

Welcome to Wrongplanet !

Feel free to post and make yourself feel comfortable glad you joined, this is a good site to find out if you really have aspergers or not.....

**You know if you get world of warcraft, do you have to pay for the online gaming or do you actually get it free?**

Thanks, much appreciated.

WoW (world of warcraft) cost 15 a month but you have to by the game separately. Its a bit on the carebear side (ie not challenging) but a good time sink. Decent intro to mmo's too. They were offering a 15 day trial a while back, not sure if its still there. I gave it up a while back myself, its a group oriented game and I mostly soloed.

WoW...most epic game EVER!

"Hello," Mazeut - welcome aboard the Wrong Planet.

Welcome aboard, comrade.

Welcome to WP!

I got a mild form of epilepsy as well, just seizured out 4 times so far and fainted a couple of times , *high five* and welcome to WP.