The first time you knowingly met another Aspie

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I just thought I'd make this thread, cuz I've never met another Aspie and knowing it or at least suspecting it.

What did you think when you did? Did it seem really cool?

My experience? I was at work today, (I'm a courtesy-clerk in a grocery store) and there was an elderly man in maybe his late 70's, or late 60's at least, and he came though the checklane sitting on one of those electric carts, and I helped him out to his car (we are required to help out people who are riding those). All along the way, he is telling me all about The Lone Ranger, a really deep monologue, as if he has been obsessed with the show.

Not being stereotypical of Aspies, but I just thought this was a big deal to me as perseverations are a common symptom.

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Well, two of my three friends up here at my college are Aspies (one diagnosed, one not officially diagnosed but obviously has it), but the diagnosed friend didn't tell me he had it until after I was diagnosed, and I also didn't put two-and-two together about the other friend (one of my professors) until after my diagnosis. I think it's pretty cool. I tend to only get along with other Aspies. It just makes a lot of sense why I clicked with both of them.
-OddDuckNash99-

My good friend here at college has asperger's. He's the one that told me about it and suspected that I had it too.

i've never meet another aspie

I’ve meet a lot of ADD/ADHD ppl and a few dyslexics but never another aspie : (

i've never knowing met aspie ppl... though i've known some weird ones, whom if i ponder long enough... i'm sure i could convince myself they were...

a big reason i stopped talking with this AS specialist was because (she knew i can't afford $/time for serious DX stuff, so...) she wanted me to start attending these local meetings with AS ppl for support and information, blah blah blah...

and the thought terrified me.

so i can't really say i've ever met any

i can't remember the first time but one time i was browsing wrongplanet at a restaurant and a guy came up to me and told me he used the site too.

I haven't before.

And he didn't recognize you!? Did you tell him you were THE alex? If so, how did he react?

BTW I once went a LONG way to meet one, that I met on this board. She did kind of want her own space, which I happily complied with. I was a little disappointed that the there was only one other aspie in the group. There was one I thought was an aspie, but sometimes a serious college student involved with the subject can appear to be aspie in some ways. 8(

I have ALWAYS felt a little alien. But we generally seem so normal, etc.... And HECK, I have acted and thought like I do for SO long that even I don't know how I would have reacted in some cases. Still, I would LOVE to find some people I felt were from the same planet.

Steve

Unfortunately, it has not happened yet. But I'm wishing it will sometime.

The first one I met was in 1979 so I think we can safely say that neither one of us realized it at the time. I was in my dorm room writing (per usual) and she was in her room next door to mine (this was when everyone was coming in for the fall semester). Anyway, she was playing the soundtrack for the King and I over and over and over. It was "Shall We Dance." I finally couldn't write because of this incessant racket, so I went over to her room and started to scream at her about the noise. She was in her room painting to this music. That's when I realized that I would often write to the same music over and over in order to drown out all other noise and have only background noise I could white out in my head. We became instant friends.

We used to sit for hours and hours, days on end writing together or she would paint while I wrote. We called each other Foo and I don't remember why. Both of our first names are the same, but for some reason, we came up with this nickname and we still refer to each other that way and address our emails that way. (This had to be confusing to the mailman in the old days of real mail.)

Anyway, we are still friends and still act the same way. We like our high brow, intellectual pursuits and we are both from the alien world, but that's ok. We like each other and that's all that matters.


I would say most of my friends are either Aspies or Aspieish. I have some NT friends and that's cool, but the ones like me are special.

One of my dearest friends has AS. A bunch of other kids at my group has it,too.


-SpaceCase

1 of my friends, who i didnt even suspect at first, has it. his behaviour just seemed fine to me, but after i found out, i started realizing it wasnt normal.
and the other day i was at block busters, and the guy working there seemed kind of like he had it. i only talked w/ him a few min so im not really sure.

Honestly, I do not know whether I have met another Aspie. The unpopular, the freaks, the geeks, the cheerleaders, the jocks, the preps, the goths: I've met them, and I can tell if they belong to one of those groups.

My former best friend. Neither of us were dx'd at the time, but after seeing the Dr. about my issues, I realized my old friend would have answered every question the same way. It made perfect sense, as we were such friends due to the similarities in our personalities, although neither of us had ever heard of AS at the time.

About a year ago, we were both a bit overwhelmed at the same time, so we weren't very good company to each other. We both needed to be alone, but didn't understand it, so we had an arguement. I thought he was being a jerk, and I'm sure he thought the same about me. Again, this was before I even knew about AS, so it's not like we could understand what was REALLY going on. We haven't talked since, and in the meantime, I now know why I am the way I am, and I strongly suspect why he is the way he is.

It's funny, we had the same interests (mostly--we both love classical music, and play guitar, we even had a duo that played weddings and stuff) and basically lived identical lives, but now I lost my only good friend. Maybe if I had gone to the Dr. earlier it would be cool, although it was the inability to maintain friendships like that one that sent me to the Dr. in the first place...

So, yeah, I know an Aspie, although neither one of us knew it at the time.

The first aspie I met is the one who got me interested in researching it and later getting a DX.This was all in the past year but I strongly suspect that 2 of my ex boyfriends are AS and my current one has many traits but it may just be OCD and MS.

There is one female I work with that has some form of cognitive issues and poor social skills and bad hand writting but she also appears intellectually void and has a horrid work ethic,so I suspect "something" else but dont know her well enough.My latest issue is when meeting someone who you think might be AS....not asking them and then going into long monologue(since it is current interest....I long to talk about it and it takes max self-control not to do so.I am starting a job working with animals and I suspect a higher then average percentage of aspie traits in this field.During my job interview I had to suppress the desire to ask my new manager if her son has AS because of the way she described him,I thought......Aspie.Must suppress this new obsession and my natural inclination to "share all".I really dont want to alienate a whole new group of people I am just getting to know.It is inevitable that I will eventually talk about it....I have very little self-control in not talking about interests.

I have never met an aspie in person though I hope to someday soon.