01 May 2007, 10:21 pm
howdy.
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts! 
i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)
i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
01 May 2007, 10:23 pm
Welcome to WP. I hope you have fun posting here. 
01 May 2007, 10:29 pm
01 May 2007, 10:30 pm
Starbuline wrote:
Welcome to WP. I hope you have fun posting here.
i'm really nervous about being here, actually.
my therapist suggested it.
01 May 2007, 10:33 pm
48fugues wrote:
Starbuline wrote:
Welcome to WP. I hope you have fun posting here.
i'm really nervous about being here, actually.
my therapist suggested it.
I was nervous too, but it's actually a very nice place to be when you want support.
01 May 2007, 10:33 pm
01 May 2007, 10:36 pm
48fugues wrote:
Starbuline wrote:
Welcome to WP. I hope you have fun posting here.
i'm really nervous about being here, actually.
my therapist suggested it.
Don't be. We're an accepting bunch. Welcome to WP!
01 May 2007, 10:41 pm
blackcat
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01 May 2007, 10:42 pm
48fugues wrote:
howdy.
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts! i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)
i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts!
i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
.syad tsom ssalc ni yaw siht etirw i,AHAH
I'm 15. I like Bach,Beetoven,and Mozart.I have been playing piano since i was four.I am not diagnoesd either.I hate people touching my ears.I can't smell most things during Spring and Summer B/C of allergies.No, I am SO the clumbiest person(we shall have to have a Klutz-off
).I freak out when ppl pop ballons.I love those holographic cards and the sound that comes from scratching them.I also take things very literally(so i am told).I was als hyperlexic(how does one know if one still is???)I speak English(my usual language),parle vous en pur de Francis,and a smidget of Japanese.I draw.
Pleasure to make your aquantince...oh! AND welcome to WrongPlanet.
01 May 2007, 10:48 pm
01 May 2007, 11:00 pm
Juggernaut wrote:
48fugues wrote:
ChrissandraChrissamba wrote:
!olleH
!olleH
.srehcaet ym yonna ot desu ti esuaceb dik a saw I nehw emit eht lla siht ekil sdrawkcab etirw ot desu I
haha, at first I thought that was one of your languages. What other languages do you speak? I love language and my goal is to learn as many as I can. I've had a smattering of spanish and german, both of which I basically pick up. But my main focus (other than english of course) is Arabic.
french, portuguese, a bit of mandarin, spanish, dutch, pig latin...
i would totally LOVE to learn how to speak arabic and russian (for some reason).
01 May 2007, 11:01 pm
blackcat wrote:
48fugues wrote:
howdy.
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts! i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)
i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts!
i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
.syad tsom ssalc ni yaw siht etirw i,AHAH
I'm 15. I like Bach,Beetoven,and Mozart.I have been playing piano since i was four.I am not diagnoesd either.I hate people touching my ears.I can't smell most things during Spring and Summer B/C of allergies.No, I am SO the clumbiest person(we shall have to have a Klutz-off
).I freak out when ppl pop ballons.I love those holographic cards and the sound that comes from scratching them.I also take things very literally(so i am told).I was als hyperlexic(how does one know if one still is???)I speak English(my usual language),parle vous en pur de Francis,and a smidget of Japanese.I draw. Pleasure to make your aquantince...oh! AND welcome to WrongPlanet.
do you ever use a "big" word and then later think "did i use that in the right context?" -- if you do, you're still hyperlexic.
that and having an enormous appetite for reading, but not for speaking - i believe.
i also have hypergraphia - a compulsion to write. i always have notebooks (i'm obsessed with pens and notebooks) with me so that i can write at will.
01 May 2007, 11:09 pm
48fugues wrote:
french, portuguese, a bit of mandarin, spanish, dutch, pig latin...
i would totally LOVE to learn how to speak arabic and russian (for some reason).
Mandarin I think would be awesome as well. I guess I'm interested in the really different languages from English. How difficult is Mandarin? Arabic is a lot of fun and the alphabet is actually surprisingly easy to learn (its an actual alphabet system, not characters). For some reason Russian looks a bit scary to me. Persian is next on my list.
01 May 2007, 11:23 pm
Juggernaut wrote:
48fugues wrote:
french, portuguese, a bit of mandarin, spanish, dutch, pig latin...
i would totally LOVE to learn how to speak arabic and russian (for some reason).
Mandarin I think would be awesome as well. I guess I'm interested in the really different languages from English. How difficult is Mandarin? Arabic is a lot of fun and the alphabet is actually surprisingly easy to learn (its an actual alphabet system, not characters). For some reason Russian looks a bit scary to me. Persian is next on my list.
mandarin... well... it's hard to explain. it's difficult because there is not really emphatic syllables. the syllables are short and timed. it's very difficult to translate from english into mandarin and vice versa because you have to understand the way phrases are composed.
does that make sense?
it's a language that you need to immerse yourself in.
blackcat
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01 May 2007, 11:37 pm
48fugues wrote:
blackcat wrote:
48fugues wrote:
howdy.
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts! i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)
i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
i'm 29, but i look like i'm 16 -- i get along better with people who are younger then me... so it's not a surprise that i'm back in university with kids who are 20 and i fit right in.
some background info...
i'm not diagnosed - unless a self-diagnosis counts!
i don't have close friends - ever. i hate to be touched... which is strange because i let someone close enough to me in order to have 2 kids. (one of which i strongly suspect has AS.)i have crazy sensitivities to smell, sound and light/darkness.
i freak out when i hear or smell balloons, or those holographic surfaces they make for cards etc. that when you run your fingernail over it it makes this awful noise.
i'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet.
i take things very literally. (though i am getting better.)
i'm working hard at making eye contact with people, but it is so uncomfortable - i just avoid people most of the time. (THIS IS WHY I LOVE MIRRORED SUNGLASSES!!)
i am so emotionally messed up, that i often call my therapist and ask her if it's normal when i'm feeling a certain way. i think that is sad.
i'm obsessed with bach... i have been playing piano since i was 3. i speak several languages... english is my primary language. i was (still am a bit) hyperlexic as a kid. i am an artist: photographer, animator, filmmaker... i'm studying film at school. i get all the technical stuff - it's the theory that i have a hard time with.
anything else you want to know?
.syad tsom ssalc ni yaw siht etirw i,AHAH
I'm 15. I like Bach,Beetoven,and Mozart.I have been playing piano since i was four.I am not diagnoesd either.I hate people touching my ears.I can't smell most things during Spring and Summer B/C of allergies.No, I am SO the clumbiest person(we shall have to have a Klutz-off
).I freak out when ppl pop ballons.I love those holographic cards and the sound that comes from scratching them.I also take things very literally(so i am told).I was als hyperlexic(how does one know if one still is???)I speak English(my usual language),parle vous en pur de Francis,and a smidget of Japanese.I draw. Pleasure to make your aquantince...oh! AND welcome to WrongPlanet.
do you ever use a "big" word and then later think "did i use that in the right context?" -- if you do, you're still hyperlexic.
that and having an enormous appetite for reading, but not for speaking - i believe.
i also have hypergraphia - a compulsion to write. i always have notebooks (i'm obsessed with pens and notebooks) with me so that i can write at will.
yes,i do.i love reading, i hate talking(mostly b/c of the blank stares i often get)so i guess i still am.I like to write(although not the physical aspect of it.)
01 May 2007, 11:40 pm
