Any Native American Aspies?

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I am not fully native but I am méti.

i am an equal mix of native-american, Aztec, and viking.
i was born and raised with native-American and aztech religious paradigms.
my family is a long line of road-chiefs, which i guess is kinda like medicine man and chief from the way they explained it to me.
my middle/native American name is totonametle, which means flaming-arrow.
so far Ive earned my hawk feathers and am working on my eagle feathers.
eagle feathers are earned by having children, getting married, or graduating college.

i have aspergers syndrome.
my obsessions are art, music, social psychiatry , philosophy,
and understanding the significance of all subjects,
inconveniently even the irrelevant subjects.

did you know the physical world only acts the way it dose when your looking at it?
this fascinates me to no end.

Yup, I'm an Alaskan native and swedish mix (but mostly all native as my Swedish ancestors came here a while ago so they don't take up a lot of my gene pool). Aspergers seems to run in both the Swedish and alaskan native part of my family. It's interesting I found this thread because I was just thinking about how it seems like so much of the Alaskan native community have aspergers. I don't know about you but from my experience I'm beginning to think aspergers/HFA is extremely common in a lot of native American tribes/communities.

My dads great great grandmother was full blood Cherokee (he is guessing on that part, no one ever told him about that part of the family) on his fathers side. Her son was half. Family story with him. When he died and the doctor did the autopsy, he found my great great grandfather didn't have a stomach! Drank too much moonshine. I always thought that was a good family story.

I want to learn the Cherokee language someday, it is a very beautiful (looking) language and apparently the easiest to learn.

[quote="Spankadelic"]i am an equal mix of native-american, Aztec, and viking.

Anybody who has any European blood is also viking. Viking isn't even the proper term. They came from Denmark and Sweden. But they settled everywhere in Europe, and tried to in America (but they were kicked out by the Natives:) They probably settled a little in Russia too.

Basically it goes without saying if your white that you have some viking ancestors.

I am 1/8 Blackfoot (My dad was 1/4), but most people don't believe me since I am so pale and I burn easily. My brother, on the other hand, can tan in a freaking garage. I also found out two years ago that I have a Cherokee ancestor on my mom's side by the name of Trueblood who lived in the mountains of North Carolina.

Im in that weird gray area of being far more native american than most whites who say "Oh im 1/10th Cherokee" but im still mostly white.

That's so cool I was imagining the same at random once, native americans with Asperger's Syndrome. How interesting that would be. I thought perhaps if they were focused on culture they wouldn't be stuck up about their NT family members like some others are (not implying that most autistics do such a thing). I'm not autistic but I have native american heritage and I've been told it's evident in my face although only by one person. I don't really identify with native american culture much (I don't even know which tribes I have descended from...) but I don't forget it's there.

That sounds like a jump to conclusions.

My great grandmother was half native american and half black. But she looked more native than black. So i don't know what that makes me....

My family are from the Silure Tribe of South Wales (Glywysing). We used to have a relationship with North American tribes in pre-history and in the middle ages with Prince Madoc. Many of our customs and animal medicine is identical.
I am still discovering more about this, that is why I thought I would comment. I have been studying your peoples animal medicine and it is almost the same as ours.

We were invaded and many said we were wiped out but it is not true. I know a lot of Maori people and some other indigenous peoples. I think there could be a connection between 'Aspergers' and Indigenous bloodlines but I'm not sure.

Wow. So I was curious to see if there were other Native Americans with this condition and instead I felt blindsided with hurtful musings. A bit sad. No factual answers.


Please Educate yourselves before I throw up in my mouth. The REAL story is sad, not romantic in any way.
Both "Pocahontas" I use that name loosely and her son DIED of disease very early on, so your magical fantasy of somehow being related is extremely low and would have to be through a relative of hers who DID survive and were able to have successful offspring who also procreated and so forth. An aunt or another of her female relations (clans are traced through matriarchal line) would be logical. However a direct strait from Pocahontas herself sort of bloodline would be a complete fallacy. Sorry to rain on your parade.

You want to help Native First Peoples? End the myths that chase Native People like ghosts; there are No Native "Princesses" Chiefs were elected type officials not born into some royal line like Europeans, not all natives look the way Hollywood presents them, Native are NOT "savages" nor are all of them "stoic" quiet, strong loner types. Don't dress like them on Halloween or everytime flipping Thanksgiving rolls around. Protest Columbus Day. Boycott racist sports mascots and team names. Join A.I.M. or N.A.R.F. Or at the very very least please educate yourselves before blabbing on forums, etc.

Just please. Make it stop.

I agree with all which you've stated.

But I have one question:

Why not try Road Runner?

Coyote chasing Deer - I completely agree. I am mostly Lakotah. My personal story is complicated and personal and I don't talk much online, but I had to say I agree with you on this.

I am 1/8th Algonquin ( from Quebec ) and possibly Susquehanock and Sakonnet, though the documentation of that particular side of my family is weak when it comes to women and children (U.S. Census records).

....I think Coyote chasing deer is their name.

Yeah I find people musing about the romanticism of being Native American to not be a good thing. Especially the mound builder myths that persisted for so long. The history of the Americas is drenched in blood and conquest. My first college major that I tried to go for was North American Archaeology. I only left the major because I realized that as someone with ASD I wouldn't do well in a field that requires lot of academic socializing. I could potentially have a few Native American ancestors, but I really don't know, only a genetic test could reveal that and it wouldn't really mean much. I bet it's a lot harder getting access to proper care like seeing a psychologist if you live on a reservation.