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Hello - Hope you have a nice time on WP.
We have something in common, I listen to
everything there is when it comes to music.
Good to hear there are more, I dont quite get
how some "hate" one type of music.

Take care.

Yo, everybody!

My name is Donna and I just registered today. I am 23 years old and I live in the Philippines. I had ADHD as a child and was misdiagnosed with an autism disorder that my doctor dismissed telling my mom I was just going through some phases. By the time I was in my teens, I had bipolar episodes and ticks.

I grew up with no support (regarding my psychological struggles) at all from my parents (they were ignorant that a disorder exists and my mom even sent me away to my dad who lived in another region three times because she can’t handle my tantrums). There were times I was sent to the psychiatrist for sessions, though. I was bullied all the way from grade school until the early years of high school by my siblings and classmates. I didn’t have a lot of friends except for Pippi Longstocking (my hero, the strongest girl in the world).

I always felt different and I tried so hard to fit in (cliché). Anyway, it wasn’t until I met my boyfriend that I realized there was really something wrong with me. The only emotions I was familiar with were love and anger, so if I felt like I didn’t love him, I was mad at him and if I wasn’t mad at him I was so sweet and clingy. After 2 years of dating, he told me that his patience with me is wearing off. That hit me and that’s when I started researching my “disorder” and I came across Asperger’s. When I was reading what Asperger was, I felt like I was looking at myself and I started to understand the things I cannot comprehend about myself. That was four years ago. My boyfriend and I are still together and he’s been helping me a lot with social training, etcetera. But I still can’t get the hang of socializing.

I am an ex-Christian who is torn between being a maltheist or a deist but I’m leaning more on the maltheistic point of view. I love crafting – paper crafts, soap making, baking and cooking, sewing and reconstructing clothes. I am a big fan of street fashion and my favorite fashion accessories are socks and stockings. I love collecting school supplies, especially those made by Maped. I love ballpens with 0.3-0.5mm tips (Pilot is my favorite brand). I love reading, anything from philosophy to religion to instruction manuals (the ones from China I read for gloomy days). My favorite authors include Umberto Eco and Alan Lightman. My favorite philosophers are Soren Kierkegaard and Jean Paul Sartre and my favorite scientist is Nikola Tesla.

I have a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy and was enrolled for a semester in an MS degree program in Chemistry but I quit. I thought I loved Chemistry but I found out it was too boring for me. I want to study Microbiology instead. But I need to get out of my country because I feel it’s so small and limiting to what I want to do with my life. I have great passion for research and technical writing. And I think I want to do that for a living.

Hope to find friends here. Not the "normal" needy ones, though.
(^^)/”

Nice to meet you, Donna.

I'm Spymunk.

I'm into horror movies, Naruto and The Chipmunks and chipmunks in general.

Hello, my name is Marc, I have twin ten year old girls, one of which has Apergers. Unfortunately, they live far away and I see them in the summer and on holidays. My daughter was diagnosed just recently and I really don't know much about it. I just want to learn as much as I can, so that I can be more involved and be of help to her mother.

Nice to meet you, Spymunk and Marc.

Hello,

I am new here and this is only my second post.

A few years ago I saw a tv show where a young child was obsessed with washers and dryers. He could tell you anything, and I mean anything about any model of washer and dryer made. It caught my attention because I thought that the child was brilliant, even though I don't share the interest. I didn't think that this expertise was odd in the least. As the show went on ( could have been 60 Minutes or 20/20), they discussed the childs diagnosis of Aspergers. When they went through all of the behaviors and issues associated with A.S, I could see myself in that child.

I never really addressed the A.S. issue until now. I have had a number of nasty life changes, and these changes are compelling me to look further into Aspergers, not just for answers but for some help in being more successful socially. I took the tests, and they all come back with the "you are very likely..." I think that I need a course in mindless chit chat.

Well, that's why I am here, and here is some info about me: I just turned 40, married twice, divorced twice, I have two children, and I am currently self employed in one of my main interests. I have an AS degree, but almost have enough credits for a BA, and a degree from a technical school too. I love travel, especially London and Paris, museums, books, history, mountain biking, and anything mechanical.

After reading this post, you know more about me than my closest relatives.

Hi, I'm Kristen, and I'm 21 years old. I'm new here as well, and this is my story.

For a long time, I knew there was something very different about me, but I had no idea what it was. Then, in high school, I took a psychology class where I first learned about autism. That day, I told my mom that I must be autistic because I knew that I had many of the characteristics of an autistic child. However, my mom told me this couldn't be the case.

Still, I felt a strange connection to autism, and so, when we began to learn about autism in my college psychology class, I paid close attention. A few days later, we talked about Asperger's, and the moment my teacher described it, I knew she was describing me. That night, I called my mom and told her I had Asperger's with such conviction that she decided to do some research. By the time I went home for winter break, she had come to realize that I was right and that most of the concepts in these books described me perfectly.

She forbade me to tell anyone about it because she was afraid that people would either judge me for it or think I was just trying to get attention. It hurt so much to keep it from people, though. I made a huge effort to be social, and as I began to make friends, I continued to feel worse and worse about hiding it. Up until a few months ago, even my own father wasn't allowed to know why his daughter had never been anything like an average teenager. Finally, I decided to take matters into my own hands, and I began to tell people. I've never been ashamed of it, so why should I hide it? I'm still working on gathering the courage to share this with other important people in my life. Just two days ago, I told people on a forum I frequent that I have Asperger's and another person there who has it pointed me here.

I hope to find out more about Asperger's here and to make friends who understand what it's like to have to force oneself to be social. I also would like to find something here that gives me hope that I can one day have a healthy relationship with a guy. I know my facial expressions and my dislike of being touched have strongly affected this area of my life, but regardless of this, I still dream of finding someone I can be comfortable with someday.

Thank you guys for being here.

Hello,
I am 39 and I am living in Czech republic. I am very shy and introverted, solitary, unable to establish any friendship or relationship. I want to have some friends but people seems strange and hard predictable for me and I feel like alien or little kid among them. I don't enjoy small talk; I don't know how to start and when starts anybody else I don't know what to say after few sentences. I can chat with persons with same interests but I am really oversaturated after a hour. Communication with persons which I don't know make me a bit anxious, usually I am trying to avoid it. On the other side I have no problems in offices or shops (there are strictly given roles and I can use my practice) and I have no problems with literally understanding of speech; I recognize sarkasm or irony quite well although a bit slowly (but I dislike poesy, it seems too declamatory to me and most of metaphors I find out hard to understand).

I wasn't never considered as "odd", I had different hobbies as another children but it was considered normal for somebody who was reading at age of 3. I was allways silent good boy sitting somewhere reading book or making aircraft models. The only problem in school was that I was still unconcentrated and absent-minded. I had some friends, usually outsiders of class. First problems come when I was at secondary school, I was scatterbrained like scientist from Jules Verne's books. I knew that I had some problems but when I was sent to psychologist, I was surprised when he talk also about my social problems which I wasn't realize (teachers have noticed that I was communicating only with few classmates and I was not making new friends). I don't know what psychologist found, it was 1984 and AS was unknown diagnosis. I absolved secondary school, then high school, found job. I haven't significant problems in daily life although sometimes somebody tells me that I am like "fallen from the Moon" because I am uncertain and confused when things goes different than I have predicted ("Eh ... wait a moment ... OMG, WHAT TO DO???").

I heard about AS for the first time when I started to concern with psychology; I was looking for answer why I am unable to set up friendship or relationship and why my need for association with other people is so low. AS explains most of my problems, even problems which I never connected with my social problems (lack of attention, rigid thinking). Nevertheless I am not sure if I have AS, I have many AS traits but not all; my AQ is 37-38 but according to "Aspie Quiz" I am somewhere on the border rather NT than AS. When I am reading discussions on that site I feel that aspies are thinking in the same way as me and they have the some problems with living among people.

My hobbies and interests are aviation, railways, cycling, hiking, geocaching, medieval architecture (castles, cathedrals), renaissance art, photography...

Hello Ford Perfect.

Geocaching seems very interesting. Are you registered at geocaching(dot com)? Please excuse the paranthesis. I can't post a direct link. Maybe you could post some info about your experiences in one of the forums here.