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Dan, married
32 and recently diagnosed with AS
Born and raised in Mexico. I presently live in California, but I've lived in italy and Spain too. I have a BA in Fine Art, never sold a piece yet, I have exhibited in the above countries tough.
I travel whenever I can, 22 countries so far, but it's actually 20 cause Mex and USA don't count.
my fav country is Nicaragua, Why? I won't ever forget what I saw there. A child asking for help with big eyes that were screaming malnutrition, and I didn't do anything to help.
don't pay me attention I'm drunk anyways

I'm Goche, I was diagnosed four years ago with a very mild form of aspergers, to tell the truth I believe I was misdiagnosed. My social skills are a little off, but I moved a lot as a small child and was taken out of social situations like recess in elementary school to help correct a lisp I had. Other than that, I don't see any symptoms of autism in myself, I came here to try to understand it a little better.

As for me as a person, I'm 18, married and an expecting mother. Due to a situation out of my control I was forced to leave high school and now I'm pursuing my GED, but I'm worried about the English section. I played the Bass Clarinet in high school, and love history and biology.

Hi I'm 37yr but look an act younger never really grow up have made a total mess of my life so far spent most of my life hidding indoors hardly talking to anyone expect my girlfiend who has been the only friend Ive had since leaving school.
Found out only a week ago from my shrink that I may have AS been checking this out all week an found out I have most of symptoms not sure myself though.
Love wrong planet have learned a lot about my disorder already nice not to feel alone an share my thoughts an feelings with like minded people.
Hope with my shrinks help an meds to turn my life around an start living it Ive wasted so much of it already.
Hobbies are mainly messing about with computers I'm always on my pc sometimes 12 hrs a day my girlfiend is from Spain, Barcelona she is amazing to put up with living with me for over 11yrs shes been my life.

Hi, I'm a 20 year old female from Germany. I always knew I was different and I got bullied a lot in school when I just wanted to be laft alone. How I found out about Asperger's was a really strange coincidence. I was reading a Monk fanfiction and in it someone told him that he probably has Asperger's Syndrome. I had no idea what that was so I looked it up... and as they say, the rest is history That was more than 2 years ago. I'm still not sure about getting an official diagnose, but at least knowing that there are others like me out there is kind of comforting
I'm currently on a 3-year traineeship as an IT specialist and I'm going to college at the same time now, studying Information Systems. (I'm a half-time student, instead of going to vocational school I go to college so I can do the 1. and 2. semester in the last 2 years of my traineeship).
I love anything that has to do with computers (hm, that's kinda obvious, isn't it?). I read a lot (mostly sci-fi/fantasy/mystery stuff... and fanfiction) and I couldn't live without music (I'm learning how to play the guitar right now).

Hm, that's it. If anything sounds strange or is wrong let me know so I can improve my English

I'm an American college freshman who, up until a couple years ago, was afraid just to look into the possibility of autism. You see, my teachers had been acting for years like there was something seriously wrong with me (I even got held back a year for being "socially maladaptive") and the first person who tried to categorize me was my second grade teacher, who gave my mom a book about dealing with autism and this whole song and dance about how every single problem I was having in that class stemmed from it. (Not true, by the way. I was having trouble with my friend, but the teacher was a screaming authoritarian...) Then years later, I read a Princess Diaries book where Mia had to do a report on Asperger's. I didn't put it all together right away, but when we were assigned a similar project and my friend was having difficulty finding something to research, I suggested Asperger's... and then slowly started realizing I fit a lot of the criteria.
Anyway... I love computers, especially playing PC games. I've recently gotten into playing PS2 games as well. I like reading genre fiction, fanfics, and the occasional comic book (and write poetry, fanfiction and original fiction). I have a tendency to rant about things I care about (just don't get me started on the whole "modern video games are rubbish and/or sexist" and you'll probably be fine). Minor obsession... I've loved Star Wars since I was six. I don't like the movies that much and I make merciless fun of the Skywalkers, but I can't get enough of the books and games, and I'm of a Star Wars trivia queen...

Hi Ya'll,
I'm a 46-yr-old guy, single, living with 3 of the finest feline critters imaginable. I have been considering the AS diagnosis for some time, given the fact that I have about 80% of the characteristics of AS that I have read about. I have been in psychiatric treatment for 28 years, and I have been (mis)diagnosed with about half of the disorders in the DSM at one time or another. Currently, I am supposedly Dissociative Disorder NOS. There is a great deal of mental illness on both sides of my family, including a nephew with PDD. I have always felt different, even though I have always had at least a few close friends who accepted me. Over the last 10 years or so, my feeling has been that I was born on the wrong planet, and I feel a desperate longing to go home, wherever that is. One of the worst things that ever happened to me was at the age of 16, when my father (who worked for a defense contracter), moved the family from our home in Texas, to Tehran, Iran. That was in 1977 and we witnessed the Islamic Revlolution against the Shah in 1978. While my social and other difficulties began showing up at a very early age, the move to Iran totally shattered me. That was when I started feeling like an observer in my own life, among other problems. I won't bore everyone with the details, but right now I just feel sad, hopeless, lost, and I want to find where 'home' is. Ya'll sound like some pretty cool folks and I would like to hang on this board as long as you will have me.
Cheers,
Marty

Heyy, My name is Lacie. I have an autistic brother named Jayson. And Well i pretty much just joined. well not really but this is the first time i have really been on. Hmm I love doing crazy things that if you drove by and saw you would probley break you kneck trying to figure out what the heck i was doing. Im out going and i love to have friends i have so many friends just because i think its better to be loud and outgoing and to be liked and hated by few then to be quiet and shy and be hated or misunderstood by all. I like anytype of music EXCEPT some county. i mean i like the normal stuff no weird honkey tonk stuff. i think im pretty weird. but very down to earth. so if you wanna talk just send me something i love to chit chat. =]]]

Well, I'm Rednal... 17 years old, male, and probably the biggest faker I know in real life. Or online, come to think of it. I have been formally diagnosed with AS, and I've known this for a large part of my life. When it comes to dealing with people, I tend to be either very, very good or outright awful about it. For the most part, this is because I have become adept at mimicry (hence being a faker). In social situations, I've made a habit of imitating the people around me to act relatively "normal". This ability seems to be deteriorating, though, because I find myself increasingly vexed with the people I know and consequently feel less inclined to care about how I act around them. I also have the habit of finding the strange people everywhere I go. Life is very interesting that way.

So, uh, hi. ^^

I am from a third world country called Nepal which is in turmoil these days because of political reasons. The politicians and the people in power in our country are liability for the people. They have misguided our country more often then not. Thats it about my country.

I have never been diagnosed officially. I have visited couple of them but none have even suspected me of AS because they think I am suffering from depression. Its difficult to survive in a NT dominated society, to survive in a third world country with AS is like visiting hell before death. There is no opportunity for achieving and leading a healthy life because people in my country are not educated enough to understand what is different about me. I've read enough about AS which has helped me recognize myself as an aspie. The following are the reasons:
1. Everyday is a new story of survival.
2. Even completing the morning chores is like someone is pinching me with needles all the time. It does not hurt too much but it hurts enough to imbalance my focus.
3. Eating breakfast is boring. Eating the same kind of food everyday is really bad experience.
4. I have to assure myself everyday about going to office, telling myself that office is not devils home. At work I've to meet lot of strangers so its very tiring and needs lot of focus. My clients sometimes ask me stupid questions which I cannot tolerate. Its like testing my nerves all the time. Now I have enough experience to keep myself cool and go about it as if it is in my blood but still once in a while the 'no eye contact' thing haunts me.
5. My bosses like me because I am honest and hard working but sometimes they expect me to cross the line which I cannot tolerate.
6. When I come back home my wife (yes I'm married and going to be father soon) asks about the day, I tell her "as usual". Its in our culture to stay with parents so I don't have to face the problems which aspies in America have to face. I'm lucky that my wife is very loving and knows enough about me (we've been together since 7 years and now its our third year of marriage). Yes, ofcourse she gets angry with me once in a while because we don't communicate in the same bandwidth a lot of times. I love her a lot and she loves me more than I do and is very very possessive about me. I have built good impression on them so they are OK with me as I'm careful not to talk too much or not act smart before them. Mostly I keep quite among strangers or not so close people which helps my cause a lot. They think I'm intelligent enough and a straight person not to chit chat about rubbish things. On the contrary some think I'm arrogant as I don't seem to be so friendly and don't get along instantly.
7. I'm shy with girls. Most girls don't dare to come and speak with me because they think I'm of the serious type but if i like someone I just go and talk so the girls who are close to me know me what I'm like. For me it was like girls chasing me. There was always girls who wanted my love. Anyway as soon as I met my wife she started treating me so specially that I have forced myself to love her and care for her.
8. My mother does not like me much, she likes by brothers more because I always talk back. My father and I have this inner connection but we don't agree in most of the things.
9. As I have grown up I am more and more assured of myself. When I was a teenager everyday was like hell. My grades were going down. I nearly dropped out of high school. High school was the peak of my suffering. I was able to complete it after 2 years of layoff. I dropped out of college after 3 years. I was good in studies but exams made me cringe. Everyone knew me as an intelligent person but they used to be surprised when they knew my scores. Sitting in the classroom for a long time made me allergic literally. My eyes and ears used to go red. I used to be nervous and fee sleepy all the time. So its like my body was present but my mind was absent in the classroom. I hated assignments and open book exams. I hated lot of things about studying as everything seem to be spoon-feeded. In our part if someone does not complete college he/she is doomed. So I'm still struggling, have not been able to achieve what I'm capable of. I'm in debt even though people of lesser capability have achieved a lot because they finished college/university often by cheating. I'm not discouraged. I'll keep on going. Let's see what future has in store for me.

This is more than enough for this time. I'll certainly write more when I feel like.