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Hey geeks and freaks! FleaCircus here, I'm 16 years old and a die hard internet junkie with no life!
*ahem*
A have a zillion interesting facts about me, but I will abridge it to a dozen.
So.. one of the many things you should know about me is that I don't like people knowing too much about me.
I am double jointed.. have a bad case of arachnaphobia and would rather eat a whole pack of moldy bread than eat bacon.

Hello, I am almost 36, ADHD/Asp.

Did not talk until I was 4, but was reading and writing before I was 5.
Have a facination with interactions of people, one to another. Able to use this to analyse people and adapt these things to be able to communicate but that went only so far, sort of superficially, not that personal, with most people anyways.

Too many interest.... Do not like having my picture taken, nor do I like photographs of people looking at me, weither it is something out of a book or a picture on a wall.

I am quite eccentric, sort of like someone with the mind of a 50 year old and the raw emotions of a 8 year old. Not an immature emotion but rather like a simpleness, innocent like emotional goofiness i suppose is a better way of describing it.
It is like one minute, I am goofing off, hyperactive, and in my own world, and the next, I am serious, exerting a lot of control, aware and sharp... Like a sudden change....

I tought myelf to play the violin. Bought it one day and after figuring out how to use the bow, was able to play a few simple songs but it did not sound that good... Takes practice to get better though.

Mechanically inclined, as well as being able to write poetry, draw and good with numbers. If you beleive in the left/right brain stuff, I am sort of a 50/50. Ambidexterious in many things, as well as some things I am left and others I am right. I write with both hands, bat in baseball both ways, I can throw both ways in baseball but not in American football. Yet going to the bathroom, I am a lefty.

I am stressed when some things are out of place. Other times it does not bother me. Crowds of people are stressful. I react to loud sudden noises with a sudden aggressiveness that passes within a second or two. I do not like bright lights and do not like sunny days. Prefer ovecast days, especially when there is a light drizzle.

6'7", 235, strong as an ox, agile as a cat, some martial arts training as well as wrestling and boxing. Just did not hold my intrest for any length of time to continue those persuits. Like history, sciences, reading, gardening, inventor, music, some literature if I can get away from this distraction called the internet... Interested in other people and their personalities and obsrving them interacting and the sorts... I have problems at times with staring at people. It is as if some parts of their face is facinating like as I see some sort of geometrical pattern in their facial structure...

Being an introvert around people I do not know or not know well, I appear normal and not as eccentric, but others that know me and when I am an extrovert, I am 'eccentric'.

Well, theres a bit about me.

Hello everybody

i just got to point out that my english sucks so bear with me.

i am 21 year old from Norway. I i just got my Diagnose 2 months ago, its weird as i dont like the consept that i have a disorder becaurse its not a Disorder its the natural development of the brain. It Evolution I tell you

When i was little i liked to destroy everything i could, i destoyed alot of things that belonged to my brother He liked to make stuff out off lego and i liked to destoy everything he built it was quite fun. i still like to destoy stuff but its only my stuff know.

When i was 9 year old i tried to imagine where God came from but the only thing i could imagine was nothingness so i guess i have been depressed ever since that. I began to read everything i could about diffrent religions and when i was 12 years old i got into drugs. Especially Benzodiazepines for they helped me with anxiety, depression, in generall it help me fit in in sosial situations and it took away the feeling i had off beeing diffrent. The
I have tried most of whats out there. Now i have stayed clean for 3 month and still going strong. The End result of my Drug use is that my anxiety and depression are worse much worse.

Its weird becaurse after i got the Diagnose i felt many questions was answered and i dindt have to look anymore to find who i am. I am what i am and thats a trouble man

My hobbies are painting, drawing, fishing, computer, reading (i read alot of everything), llisten to music ( listen to all kind of music )and to go on long trips with my dog:).

Thats all folks

Hi everyone. I'm a graduate student at UCLA, just coming to understand AS and find this community of people. i'm so glad i can identify with what you have written.

AS has been on my mind for a long time, it's a relief to finally come to terms with it. i have a great therapist and a great insurance policy that allows me any number of sessions i want.
my family knew i was shy as a kid, but they never made excuses for me in front of people. i was left to figure things out myself or depended on my older sister to part the waters and invite me onto her social turf. i figure my parents' approach has something ot do with making it this far, despite having little sense of feeling most of the time

AS is exhausting. I've figured out how to "fake it," which has its advantages, but prevents me from revealing my true colors or my true expression. The way I imagine I look to the outside world is blank, but beautiful. It is ironic, and not ironic, that people with AS tend to have flat expressions, when there are so many colorful visions and brilliant ideas behind those eyes.

I'm Texas Arcane.

Was clinically diagnosed three years ago. Everything but social skills runs at above par.

I don't think I'm a natural, rather like Wolverine in X-men. I think I was manufactured by a chemical accident with sodium lye when I was 18 months old and drank some Drano left out in a Coca-Cola bottle. Like Wolverine, though, I'm still an X-man irregardless.

Married with two children to a neurotypical. Learned to fake it so well over the years was very good at passing for a neurotypical except a few eccentricities that would surface despite my best efforts. Still managed to hold down jobs in IT over the years and keep food on the table. I honestly thought I was from another planet until a few short years ago - all my life I often experienced the "aspie" panic around the clock that others would discover I was only faking being human. Always scared people would point to me suddenly and do that Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body Snatchers thing with the howling.

Out of the blue in 1997 I turned into an underground tunneling machine and built a gigantic subterranean fortress here in Australia for fear of changes occurring in the world. At the time I felt I was the only person who could see them but lately I've got more company. Usually passions like this would have burned out a while back but continue my shelter building with great gusto after briefs rests now and then. Always adding to my systems and coming up with new twists for things.

As I entered middle age I think a lot of my symptoms began to self-regulate and I believe I have grown much better naturally without any intervention of any kind. I tend to be far more empathic with others than when I was younger and even a bit more so lately, whether neurotypicals or anybody else. I am not as angry as I was when younger and also seem to manage this much better as well.

Never been on any medication, even my depression was always pretty well managed relatively speaking. It was truly black at times but I always kept a poker face irregardless. I think my children have been an enormous comfort to me and given me a sense of purpose I may have lacked.

welcome to WP, pardner.


you're gonna love it here.

hello

well i am new to all this, i am 32 female and live in london england, i was told when i was 18 that i showed a lot of autistic responses and that it was very likey that i had aspergers but at the time i would not listen i preferred to think i was just a little strange, i have felt like an alien my whole life, but after lots of failed relationships i finally found someone who could put up with me, she has pushed me to get help for my sociaphobia and other problems, so far i have seen two psychologists, the first hated me because i was more intelligent than her and i asked too many questions, the second said that i definately have some traits but i need to see a specialist and so i am on a waiting list to get a formal diagnoses so i hope that i am ok here even though i still have only been told that it is highly likely.

well my special interest is quantum theory at the moment, since being with my girlfriend i have learned to control my outbursts and no longer get overly aggresive, i am also trying to overcome my sociaphobia but eye contact is still really difficult and i have a tendency to interrupt peoples' conversations with totally inapropriate comments which i am really trying hard to stop, but then i am just quiet and people just ignore me so i really do not understand social interaction. and i really hate all that fake hug, cheek kiss thing that women seem to find so necessary.
i like all kinds of music but really like heavy metal and techno, i like anything with a good strong beat, i like watching patterns and helping my friend in his gardens .


sorry if i have rambled on too much
madz

Wat up, my names Adam and im 20 years old. ive known that i have aspergers since i was bout 13 though i passed it off as nuttin and pretended it didnt exist until now. All the 'special' teachers in school made me feel like a loser so i f****d them off wit a foul mouth and made it perfectly clear i didnt want them near me. as a result i know virtually nuttin bout wat ive been livin wit these past years. only now after readin up a bit do i realize that this is the reason ive felt so alone and different from evry1 else i know.

im short, brown hair and i got pretty blue eyes lol. i will put a pic up soon as i get one. i love my music and i would be lost without it. i listen to mostly rap/hip hop but have been known to throw on the beegees from time 2 time. newayz if any1 wants to know any more i would appreciate a msg. i dont know any aspies and most ppl i do know dont even know wat it is. Add me on msn [email protected] or AdamA13 on Bebo. preferably girls though ill chat 2 dudes wit similar interests.

I am 30 years old, female, on my way for the first time to a psyquiatrist.

I graduated and I have a more or less job but apart from that, you know ALL THE THINGS that are not and never felt right? Well "autism" never occurred to me until some casual newspaper reading about Bit Torrent. "Hey this asperg- aesperger- spaghetti stuff fits hell in me!"

Anyway even if the shrink states that I have something else I just would like to say that I loved Wrong Planet and I am reading all the articles and forum posts avidly. Thanks for the great work and good luck to you all!

Name: Kim

Location: San Antonio, TX. Born in Palo Alto, CA. Raised in Baltimore, MD.

Education: BA in Writing from Hampshire College, currently working on MS in Library and Information Science

Job: student, recently quit library page job in order to take more classes at once

Pets: Dog named Sonic after Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5

Diagnoses: auditory processing disorder, AS (self-diagnosed thus far), panic disorder

Interests: music (listening, collecting, playing and writing), biology, psychology

Instruments: guitar, bass, bagpipes, harmonica

Languages: some French, some Spanish

Age: 28

Religion: No thanks, I'm an athiest.

Music: stuff that defies categorization, punk, metal, hardcore, and lots of other stuff except for jazz and classical

Movies: This Is Spinal Tap, documentaries pertaining to my interests, some horror

TV: non-fiction pertaining to my interests

Books: non-fiction pertaining to my interests

Favorite Biological Sciences: neuroscience, zoology, medecine, pathology, entomology

Favorite Animals: anteaters, bats, hippos, rhinos, hyenas, walruses, pigs, rats, snakes, dogs, cats, lemurs and other prosimians, jaguarundis, spiders, moths, insects in general

Tattoos: about 8 so far

I'm 51 years old. Just dx'ed this year. Born in Detroit, lived a large part of my life in Michigan and now residing in Kentucky. I'm married with a set of twins. ( The light's of my life...)
I've lived in California, Wyoming, Connecticut, New Zealand and Japan ( My wife's Japanese ).

My work history is a wee bit varied. I've planted trees, picked fruit, sorted potatoes, managed a used and rare book shop ( my best and longest gig ) and am now working in a co-op.

After years and years of tolerating my eccentricity's, my wife finally insisted that I find help for my many and varied mood disorders.

My daughter takes after me, including many of my old learning disabilities and behaviours.
After investigating her problems, I found the reason for mine. Took one of those on-line tests. Took another...lucked out in having a psychiatrist who would be willing to look at developmental rather than behavioural causes for my state of being...

And now I'm here.