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What is your first name? Katie

Age: 18, 19 in november

Location: southeastern massachusetts

Hobbies and Interests: reading, writing, crossword puzzles, scrabble, cacti and succulents, fungi, fish (especially betta fish and sharks)

Why are you here? I am trying to understand my aspergers better and learn how to express its difficulties to others. I also want to talk to others who have it and find support

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): when I was 17, though I suspected it and tried to see a professional about it for years before that

Favorite subjects: english and art

Year/Grade: I don't go to school

Favorite music: the mountain goats, screaming females, los campesinos!, fall out boy, r.e.m., radiohead, pavement, rilo kiley, the hold steady, weezer, jets to brazil, the beatles, the cure, rihanna

Books: all books by chuck klosterman, good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett, the millennium trilogy by steig larsson, a farewell to arms by hemingway, extremely loud and incredibly close by jonathan safran foer

TV shows/Movies: lost, parks and recreation, rupaul's drag race, whose line is it anyway, strangers with candy, bbc sherlock

Instrument: I know how to play guitar and clarinet but I haven't played either in a while. I am trying to learn how to play drums

Do you like sports? I enjoy watching gymnastics, cycling, and swimming, but I do not like to play

Family: I do not live with my family but I am close to my mom and fairly close to my sister

Clothing: I like stripes, flowers, polka dots, and plain colors.

How did you find this website? my therapist

Job: I write for spare change but do not have an actual job

Plans for the future? I am trying to get on disability/SSI and find a place in the country where I can live comfortably

Any comments? I am happy to be a member here and hopefully will meet some good new acquaintances

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Hello. I'm Brian Finally someone else on here from New England. I'm new too and i've been looking for people in New England. I just found out I have AS as well. Still doing the same thing you are. Just trying to learn more about it. Just by realizing it though it's already helped me take a huge step in the right direction. Hope you like it here. Send me a message sometime if you want to talk some more.

hi brian! I am originally from hawaii, but this year I have moved out on my own and been shuffled around the country quite a bit (pennsylvania, new mexico, now massachusetts). this is the longest I have stayed in one place since I left my parents and I have only been here since june! I know what you mean about just knowing you have AS helping. I suspected for years that I had it but it was always brushed off as something that I would "grow out of". it wasn't taken seriously until I started seeing a psychiatrist for other reasons (depression, anxiety, possible bipolar) that I was diagnosed. I talked to a couple of my old teachers recently and they said that they had always suspected I had AS but had never said anything for whatever reason... I wish they had because then I would have started getting help for it in middle school and growing up wouldn't have been as difficult! but things are how they are and now that I am diagnosed I feel more comfortable talking about it and can finally get help learning how to function.