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Sorry, I didn't post my name coz I'm a newbie and kinda shy.. *bats eyelashes* It's Jess.
Denise/krex:
Haha.. You said exactly what I was thinking when I read that. Except it's the whole damn house..
It appears that you also like making wool critters from felt, too! That's another perseveration of mine (but one that I haven't been doing lately.)
Nice to see so many kindred spirits here.
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28 Oct 2011, 10:30 pm
What is your first name? Lex
Age: 38
Location The untamed hellish wilderness of Indianastan:
Current perseverations: Llamas?
When did you discover AS? When I was diagnosed
Do you have other psych diagnoses? Not so far
Do you have a degree? No
Kids? Lord, no Never never never never never
Favorite music, other than NIN 
Brian Eno, Gary Numan, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Frank Zappa
Job? Author
Relationship with significant other, past or present? Married once, about a dozen live-ins, many others. All bad Single the past 3 years
Plans for the future? Keep selling books, have some of them made into movies, get obscenely wealthy, hire a crew of versatile personal assistants
Anything else you feel is pertinent I like Pepsi
04 Nov 2011, 5:06 pm
What is your first name? Ceorl, unless you happen to be some radical modernist.
Age: As the old song says,
"I was born about 10,000 years ago.
There is nothing in this world I do not know.
I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses
playing ring-around-the-roses,
And I'll lick the man who says it isn't so!"
If you're too young to remember that song, the tune was the same as that of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain."
Location: On my derrière in front of the computer somewhere north of Canada. (That's Detroit area for you geography types.)
Current perseverations: Probably writing, although that can incorporate everything else I'm geeking out on at the moment, such as history, psychic phenomena, and genealogy. I'm writing a science-fiction series that starts in 1700, sort of. And I love genealogy. Of course, since the science-fiction series involves a mutation, it becomes necessary to keep a genealogy database for all of the historical figures I have co-opted and all of the fictional family members. It's fun re-writing history. In what is tentatively to be the seventh novel in the series, set in the 1860's, Marx and Engel show up as the Grand Duke of Prussia's lawyer and field marshal, respectively. Better yet, Marx argues that constitutional monarchies are the logical climax to human political achievement. A keyboard is a dangerous weapon in my hands.
I used to read a lot, at least one book per week. Having become proficient as a writer and having studied writing and novel construction so thoroughly, I now find it difficult to read most books. "Argh! Look what he's doing there! Show, don't tell!" or, "Egad! This she calls writing?" So, I am down to reading and re-reading a very select group of authors and spend much more time writing than reading these days. Among those who are still readable are H. Beam Piper and Victor Gischler.
When did you discover AS? Truth to tell, when I was a young'un, it hadn't made it to the US, yet. If it had, I would have been diagnosed lickety-split, since I was the stereotypical "little professor." The closest thing was autism. I studied that some, but it was what we would today call LFA. I wondered if there might be a milder form. At that time, it was just called being a geek, or a less-pleasing name after one of my many social faux pas.
I think I might have heard of Asperger's as early as the late eighties (and knew I qualified then.) I finally "self-diagnosed" using tools on the Internet a few years ago, such as the AQ (Wait, you only need 30 out of 40 to pass? Hahahaha! 
) and the EQ/SQ. (Average male: 39.0/61.2. Me: 14/134 Extreme Systemizing)
Do you have other psych diagnoses? I have no diagnoses. From an early age, it became evident to me that most people go into psych-related fields to find out what's wrong with them. (Either that or hoping to do better than was done to them by those in the field, as is evidenced by some in this thread.) Have you ever read much about Freud and Jung? After years of separation and feuding, they showed up in the same room. One of them, I think it was Freud, fainted dead away at the shock of being in the same room as his rival. DRAMA QUEEN! 
Oy!
Do you have a degree? I have a BA. It was either in euchre, girl-chasing, or BS. I don't remember which. It's been a very long time ago.
Kids? With the proper sauce, they can be good. It's kind of like lamb with mint sauce. Overall though, I prefer goat cheeses to the actual meat.
Favorite music: As with many on here, I prefer a very wide variety. If I were to name my favourite, it would be Baroque. Everything has gone downhill since 1750, except computers and plumbing. But I also listen to early music and some of that new-fangled stuff, like Mozart and Beethoven. Also been known to listen to folk, preferably of the traditional variety, old country and western, and just about anything else. Naturally, being of the AS sort, I don't really like loud music. Techno can also trigger adverse reactions, or maybe it's that it's usually too loud? I am also not much for dissonance, such as many modern classical and jazz pieces.
And with a wink and a nod to my neighbors south of the border, I really love Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers!
Job? I've always preferred the Book of John, but Job holds interest for me metaphysically, as well.
Oh, wait, do you mean occupation? At one point I had ten of those concurrently: prose writer, poet, editor, publisher, management consultant, systems engineer, process modeler, data modeler, programmer, and semi-professional musician. These days, I am mostly writing fiction, although poetry slips in sometimes. And of course, my novels can be complex and need databases to support them, so I create and maintain those. And then...well, you get the picture. I'll probably be back to management consulting soon, too. I'm never away from it for long, and one of my non-fiction books-in-progress is about corporate governance. When that is finished and published, I'll probably take it on the road and start consulting again.
Relationship with significant other, past or present? Married for close to seventeen years.
For those of you looking for an aspie/aspie-compatible mate, might I suggest checking out your local library? Let's face it, librarians tend to be systemizers. Cataloguers even more so. Even if they are not aspies themselves, they tend to like things orderly and in the proper place. Think about it. It's even better if there is a library school or two nearby. The chances just go up and up. And Aspie ladies, there are male librarians, and by the very nature of the beast, it is not unusual for them to become library directors. Not a bad catch, you know?
Plans for the future? Get books published. I've been looking for a victim (publisher) for the science-fiction series, since I have the first volume finished (I think) and the second volume nearly so. I really have to finish the corporate governance book. I also have a detective series I need to get back to. I call it the "Dead Detective" series, since the hero gets killed about a third of the way through the first book. My characters never coöperate and act like normal heroes. No, they do things like getting killed and making me figure out how to finish the book after that problem arises. Good grief!
Anything else you feel is pertinent: Several things. The Aspie-migraine connection: are there studies supporting this? i know there is plenty of anecdotal evidence on the Interwebs. I have both. I suspect my father also has both, although many men do not actually have the headache with a migraine, but they do have the aura and become much more sensitive than usual to sensory input, even for an aspie. That sensitivity can translate to grouchy in men, like my dear old dad. My mother and paternal grandmother were also migraine sufferers. Do we have a few others in the forum?
One poster listed his IQ and said something on the order of, not that that matters to anyone. I disagree. I sometimes suspect that IQ tests were an early form of test for systemizing or an Aspie-detector. We had at least two other posters early on in this thread who spoke of purposefully underperforming for IQ tests, and still having ridiculously-high scores. When I was in fourth grade, I was given a very comprehensive IQ test. The test only registered about six standard deviations out, and I broke it. The school wanted to give me an even more comprehensive test that could register higher, but they would have had to buy ten sets of materials for these tests, and they cost $100 each. They asked my mother to cover the $1,000, since they didn't expect to use any of the other nine copies of test materials anytime soon. She laughed at them, and asked, "If the first test showed he was so unusual, does it matter how much more unusual?" (Also note, this was when gallons of gasoline were measured in cents rather than dollars, so $1,000 was quite a bit more than in our current currency. ) So, my IQ was never thoroughly measured. On the other hand, is the fact that my systemizing score is about twice normal related to that IQ, also about twice normal? Or is that just my imagination?
I would add more, but I see that I've typed the keys right of my keyboard for the day. Other days, other posts!
After all of these years among the neuro-typical, reading this thread brought the thought, "It's good to be home!"
05 Nov 2011, 6:28 pm
What is your first name? Jess
Age: 33
Location: North of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Current perseverations: Gardening and self-reliance, books, cats, kids, comparative religion, AS in general and co-existence with the world in particular
When did you discover AS? Self diagnosed 1997. Officially diagnosed 2011.
Do you have other psych diagnoses? Major depressive disorder, PTSD.
Do you have a degree? BA in English Lit with a specialization in Creative Writing. Almost got a second specialization in Native American Studies.
Kids? Three. 10-year-old and 2-year-old daughters and a 4-year-old son. Suspect my son is on the spectrum but I neither know for sure nor really care. We'll figure it out as we go along.
Favorite music, other than NIN Bluegrass. Folk. Metallica. Pink Floyd. Les Miserables. Anything but gangsta rap, and I'd probably like it if I listened to it long enough.
Job? Being a homemaker IS a job.
Relationship with significant other, past or present? Married, legally for 10 years but practically for 13. NT. It's... interesting. He's a good man.
Plans for the future? Continue trying to survive. Might go to trade school when the baby starts kindergarten.
Anything else you feel is pertinent: I inherited AS either from my dad or from my maternal grandfather. I'm pretty sure they both had it. Daddy didn't care-- he was just himself, and he was happy. There were a lot of coal miners passing flasks in the parking lot at his funeral. Grandpa cared a lot-- he worried constantly about acting normal and what people would think. He had three nervous breakdowns and was never a very happy man. There were a lot of church people standing around with no idea of what to say at his funeral. Grandpa was well thought of in the community, but I think I'd rather be like Daddy.
28 Nov 2011, 2:00 pm
A short bio of Spruce
Age 42
When I was diagnosed with AS: When I was 4, confirmed in 2008
Where I live: Indiana and the Internet
Relationship: Married to a NT/Bipolar RN for almost 20 years three adolescent kids
A little about me: I write for a living and surf the net...a budding Android geek in the making 
10 Dec 2011, 5:10 pm
Of couse you may leave any question blank
What is your first name? chris
Age: 48
Location: yorkshire uk
Current perseverations:
When did you discover AS? 2007
Do you have other psych diagnoses? aspies and bi polar
Do you have a degree? no
Kids? no thanks ive already eaten
Favorite music, other than NIN
northern soul,Job? not at moment
Relationship with significant other, past or present? tried it many times,duz,nt work
Plans for the future? try and be happy
Anything else you feel is pertinent:
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