Hi, I'm new to Wrong Planet.

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I just found out that I am an Aspie too. Still a little confused about the whole thing, but my wife is on it like white on rice.
O.K.- I'm a 59 year old male white, retired, but own a newspaper, and I just want to connect with people that have been dealing with this longer than I have and are more in tune with what I can expect to go through.
Steve

Welcome to Wrong Planet, Reptiguy. I'm RedMage, one of the younger members here.

...."like white on rice"....I love that expression.

Welcome,there are a few older aspies on here but we are outnumbered(and the kids are always trying to play on my lawn,dang whipper-snappers).

Hope you enjoy the web site,it can be a bit addictive(a least if it ends up being your new obsession).

Im not sure exactly how to reply, is this right?

Hi, I hope I am replying right. If not, let me know what I am doing wrong. Then I will talk at you more.





="RedMage"]Welcome to Wrong Planet, Reptiguy. I'm RedMage, one of the younger members here.[/quote]

reptiguy, I take it you are into reptiles? I am. It was my obsession for quite some time and I've kept many lizards over the years.

Hey, that's great. I have been into reptiles for over 20 years. I had them all... snakes, lizards, frogs, torts, you name it. I'm licensed by CA Fish & Game to breed native and endangered CA snakes. Do you have anything now?

Frogs are amphibians, not reptiles.

Had some Dumpy frogs and Tiger salamanders, thats about it. Right now I have one Bearded Dragon and 16 snakes.

Welcome to WP!

I'm SamuraiSaxen, the Samurai Gundam Pilot. Nice to meet you!

I love reptiles.

Welcome to WP!

Tim

Reptiguy,

I just hit 60, publish books and prints. I was sure I was the only one, then this place.

To start with you are Dino, pre-identity, treatment, words, which most of us call the good old days.

60s and 70s were a period of advancing psycobabble, all fairly meaningless from my point of view.

80s 90s were a pill for everything, and when it did not work, two pills.

The new crop are happy and well adjusted, mostly babble and drug free, except they are teenagers.

As has no cause, treatment, cure, but I am discovering a culture. In science, Newton, Tesla, Bill Gates, In music most first chairs, in technology NASA, Redmond, Silicon Valley, Round Rock (Dell), the creators of the personal computer, operating systems, the Internet. Video games, Pokemon, anima, visual arts. Writers, Kurt Vonnegut, Hitchikers Guide to the Universe. They do not just understand math, they enjoy it.

The Disability of Art, Science, Technology, which produced the modern era. The strongest effects are on the very young, who take a while longer to develop, understandable with a mid point 140 IQ, and more socially awkward teen years. But now Geek means cool, so they blend in better. They are still somewhere else, but the world is moving in their direction quickly. They used to be bullied in school, but now even bullies need someone who can repair computers.

Self defining is new, and progressing. AS has many positive aspects.

Near 10,000 here and no matching pairs. AS is a dumping ground.

People with high IQs and Bright People Quirks, BPQs. My humor on defineing with letters.

High skills and held in uneven ways. When the cards were dealt some got all hearts and diamonds, others eleven clubs. No consistancy in skills, but a common sense of self.

Whatever your mix, your special interests, there are more here as deeply involved with some of it.

In Getting to know each other is a thread, You might be an aspie if.. It struck home many times.

What hit me was the tribal nature, there is a unity, it crosses gender and age. Grandparents play like children, for they were always alone, and finding their kind, they open up. We are Dinos, and the experts are often fourteen, they have the latest information, the most up to date information, and the least baggage.

What excluded us from life now joins us.

nothing now, don't have the time being in college, but my primary interest has been lizards, though as for other cold blooded creatures I've had an interest in from nature, having grown up catching all manner of herps. As a kid, the excitment of family vacations to Florida was obtained from catching animals more than anything else. Last lizard I had was a bearded dragon. I've had lots of smaller ones too. The most unique one I've had was a Russian Glass Lizard. I'm planning on getting back into herps once I'm out of school. I'd like to get a monitor lizard, though I'm not sure what species.

I resemble that remark! (To uncomfortably use an expression that Michael Winner has almost spoilt for me).

I'm beginning to feel positively youthful here. Only 58, versus all these "oldies".

Welcome Reptiguy.

(Curiously, you're the first person I've noticed here doing the "put reply before what's being replied to" thing. I can't (won't? ) do that.)

Next, in standard non-standard AS fashion, I've had to research "I resemble that remark!". A thread on Tivo suggests Groucho Marx as the author, then Norm Cosby. However, a thread on everything2 attributes it at least to the three (six) stooges, if not Amos 'n Andy. I guess the chances are that it goes back even further?

welcome! i hope you enjoy your stay here

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