How "Old-School" are you?

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I've realized that I'm in my early 40s and been around the block several times over.

I grew up being bullied and hassled in the school halls. The best day of my life was high school graduation day.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's before there was an officially recognized diagnosis.

I remember joining a USENET newsgroup for autistics. Then later #asperger on Starlink-irc.org where I met an amazing group of people. Later I joined WrongPlanet just shortly after launch. Then took a hiatus after the William Freund incident.

How old-school are you?

I'm pretty "old school" in some ways. More "modern" in others.

Other than having internet, flat screen HDTV, and CD's/DVD's, everyone tells me I'm still living in 1977.

Old school in terms of how long I've been around specifically Aspie internet situations? Brand new, only the last couple of years. I only heard about Wrong Planet two years ago. I was only diagnosed late last year. When I was growing up nobody had heard of Asperger's and the only autism ever acknowledged was the severe kind impossible to ignore in the child. I think Asperger people like you who were diagnosed a very long time ago are fortunate.

Old school in terms of general stuff in life? A little bit, and a little bit not.

I love most new technology and I think things like the internet, Skype, and other modern things of life make things better. I have friends younger than me who have a knee jerk negative attitude to even getting online, and even to the joys of a good HD TV, and I think they're being ridiculous and missing out.

On the other hand, I AM old school about things like mobile phone etiquette, or the lack of it. I'm appalled that almost everyone and their dog walks around with their entire attention buried in their damn phones. Get off the damn phone and be in the moment, you're missing out on actual life happening right around you.

What is this "internet" thingy the kids are talking about these days?

I'm not familiar with the William Freund Incident, so I guess I'm not very old school.

I'm so old that when I think of "Freund," I think of Christine Freund, who was shot by the Son of Sam.

How did that nice logical Autistic friendly thing called PERSONAL computers where you coded alone in a corner turn into all overload, all the time SOCIAL media?

I was just unique, there was no diagnosis or therapy or support groups in the old school days.

All I had was Amelia Bedelia.

I was inspired by "Dibs: In Search of Self"--an early 1960s Aspergian kid who emerged from a seemingly autistic state.

I don't know how old school I am. I didn't know a thing about autism until ~2007, and apart from getting diagnosed and joining WP, I haven't absorbed much at all from other sources. I've not read many books, because I have trouble reading long things and I don't like taking the risk of paying for something that probably won't change my life much. Most books seem to be 90% woffle. No therapy. Just a personal quest for self-knowledge and useful coping strategies that mostly comes from direct observation of myself in real-life situations, and honest introspection. Is that old-school or new-school?

As for general life stuff, I'm a mixture. I like modern gadgets and the Web. Most other things I like have been around since the 1960s, and I have a vague idea that I'd like the world to go back to the 19th century in some ways.

I don't understand the question.

I have only ever heard the expresion "old school" used in particular contexts where there was some sense of an approach to something changing over time. I don't understand how it is being used here.

OK, I never heard it used that way before...

I am getting old, coming on the big 5-0, but not old fashioned or old school.

I am an early adopter of new technology. My thinking about processes is habitually algorithmic and code oriented. My mind delights in conceptual freedom, invention and exploration. I like new programming languages, 3d printing, and microcontroller projects.

Even though I enjoy a lot of new music, I still like David Bowie, the Clash, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads and Bob Marely, so that taste probably pegs me to an era...maybe in music I am a little old school. I like a punky reggae party (actually, I am not a huge fan of parties of any kind, but I like that song!)