Its a Star Destroyer, not a Cat Stevens song (aka my intro)

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I guess this is my introduction thread. I'm a 28 year old male who was diagnosed with Aspergers two years ago. And yes, I get asked a bit too often If I'm a Cat Stevens fan, never heard of him until I had to clarify my nickname's meaning. I'm a fan of the X-Wing series and there's a Star Destroyer Moonshadow that's in the series.

Anyway, My interest are surprisingly broad for an Aspie, lol.

I'm a Sci-Fi geek, Roller Coaster Nut, Car Freak, Computer Nerd, Gun Collector, Mountain Biker( when I can find time these days), Model Builder, as well as a few other hobbies I'm too tired to type ( its 4:17am, anyone else get the slight insomnia to go with the Aspergers?)

Currently unemployed, normally I'm in retail. Though I'm a highly skilled computer tech, my region, plus the advent of the $300 computer, kinda keeps me out of that job field. Computer techs are becoming somewhat unneeded these days so I work in the Asperger unfriendly field of retail, mostly because I have 5 years experience there. Anyway, this is my intro, so now I'm going to bed before I wind up with the imprint of my keyboard on my forehead from falling asleep at the comp........ again.

Welcome to Wrong Planet, Moonshadow!
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Welcome.

You have my sympathy for the retail thing.

Welcome greetings, Moonshadow, to the Wrong Planet.

Welcome, Moonshadow!

There's a comic book entitled "P.S. 238", by Aaron Williams (also responsible for "Nodwick", and the online comics "Full Frontal Nerdity" and "Backward Compatible"). It deals with a school set up for children of superhumans, or "metahumans", and staffed by members of the former Union of Justice (Dr. Positron teaches science, Rockslide is the gym coach, and so on). One of the students, Tyler, is the son of two of the most prominent metas in the world - they have enrolled him at PS 238 because they're certain he's going to develop incredible superpowers any time now. Tyler, however, is showing no sign of meta changes whatsoever. The principal, a telepath, arranges for Tyler to work with the area's most prominent non-meta hero, the Revenant. (Think Batman without the flying-mammal fetish.) After their second training session, the Revenant had Tyler select his own equipment from a list of available items (among other things, he took shoulder pads, a football helmet, and a magnetic grapple), and took the boy along on a patrol. They stumbled into a minor villain plot; at one point, it became necessary for the Revenant to come up with a secret identity for Tyler on the fly. He dubbed the boy "Moonshadow".

"Moonshadow?"

"I've been listening to a lot of Cat Stevens lately."

"Who?"

"Never mind."

No one at the school (aside from the principal) knows that Tyler is Moonshadow; however, Moonshadow has become a sort of folk hero to the students, since saving the kids in the Rainmaker Program (the ones with seemingly-useless powers) from a twenty-year-old cyborg that wanted to use their powers to make himself an invulnerable body. (It proved to be somewhat vulnerable to being crushed between a car and Revenant's helicopter, then burned.)

Welcome to WP!