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Cheers Tim, it feels great to be here.

Still a bit shell-shocked from my Googling,today-realizing just how much of my past could be to do with Aspergers...and why watching "Boston Legal "produced deep rumblings inside.Not hunger,either.

I will most likely never get diagnosed,or therapy,not that its not valid in any way-just not an option for me,now.

My life began weird and became more so-adoptee with still strong feelings for parents and brothers I do not know,
became the socially disabled daughter of local pastor and wife-beginning,as my good astrologer friend tells me,an extremely painful childhood-actually ,its was not all bad-just no connections with anyone around me-if I'd been an alien dropped,it could not have been more obvious.

(Note-if you have never tried a REAL astrologer,its like switching on a light-my friend loved cats and was not at all scary-love her for her help-and they are often multi-qualified in forms of therapy and can help a person understand so much of what is inside-and we need to)

Painfully shy-still am,offline-can only really deal one-to one,and increasingly feeling I cannot express myself in any context other than photography.Which has saved me.Maybe writing can evolve into an outlet.
My emotions have always been like sitting on a volcano-explosions are few,last years,but still memorable in family memory and folklore-I don't blame them,- was hell on wheels.

Over the years have ruled out the scarier possibilities of mental illnesses-not seeking excuses,but seeking explanations,being interested generally in things of the mind.
Which brings me to today,struggling to start a new career at 50,feeling around 30,tough love in place with my teenagers,whom I suspect may have inherited....a bit,but way less than me,as their upbringing was so much more peaceful and connected.

Hoping to get some hints ,here,for "life without skin" syndrome-for example-do many of us type backwards on occaison ?

Or spell strangely-have 6th senses-love cats-compose whole songs in their sleep-are extremely sensitive to pain (I mean even teeth cleaning is excruciating-and thats from a mother with 2 no-drug-back-labour -births under her belt) ?

Sorry- if this is long,relief is setting in...recognize so many fellow feelings in so many threads..will take a chill and see how this unfolds.

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My name is Tanya. I just recently realized that I have Asperger's on my own. I am relieved and feeling rather joyous about the whole thing. I have not told anyone I know yet, but I am looking forward to it. The truth is, I'm pleased with my discovery, see it as a major positive, and am not yet in the place to give too much effort toward explaining myself to the people in my life who will have difficulty understanding. So I am here !

It is abundantly obvious to me from the online community that a lot of pride and self-acceptance exist within the Autism community. Its been great because my discovery of my aspiness has been filled with that.

I live in the southern US. Some of my interests include spirituality, religion, gardening, alternative medicine, non-alternative medicine, music, animals and nature, art history, and movies.

I have enjoyed reading all of the posts on this site and others. I feel like I am reading about myself over and over. It is so validating of my experience. One bit I read was about an aspie characteristic of being loyal and affectionate as a friend. Its so nice to be stereotyped positively sometimes, isn't it?

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I'm Christine. I'm 30 years old and I live in San Diego, with my husband (who is just turning 30 today!) and our two children. I am not officially diagnosed with Asperger's, but I know I am. Both of our young children, Catherine age four, and Henry age two, have Autism. When I was suspecting that was the case, and once they were diagnosed and I began to study Autism and Asperger's I realized that I have Aspergers, and it was kind of a wonderful feeling to realize that that sort of explained my whole life... and it made me feel like there isn't some thing wrong with me... b/c that's how I've always felt. I am quite overweight (because I love to cook and I'm lazy!!) and I have short blond hair and blue eyes. I enjoy arts and crafts, especially jewelry making and photography. I also enjoy nature very much. I have a few obsessive interests including Tutor history, Anthropology, Archeology, and comparative religion. We enjoy going to renaissance faires, but we haven't been able to go for a few years.

Nice to meet you all!
Christine

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I forgot to say that I'm also into gardening, alternative medicine, nature, animals, and that I am VERY liberal. I consider myself Pagan, because I believe that all paths of spirituality/religion are merely different ways of getting to the same place.

Christine

Also threw up a lot of questions, being that I've lived 29 years thinking I was essentially the same as everyone else, just not as good at it...

LOL what a great quote!!

I am actually Lutheran myself, and I think the same way.

Christine, what quote are you referring to?

My name is Zach, and I live in Cincinnati. For the most part, the area of the city I live in is considered "ghetto", and naturally I never found myself fitting in too much. Instead of listening to the "next dope single from (insert name here)'s hit", I was looking up how to use computers. It was only until I was about 15 I found out I had ASP. (was diagnosed by a professional) Interests normally include Anything Technologically related.

For the most part, I live my daily pattern without problems with Aspergers, but Around this time of the Year (St. Valentine's Day) I always get a little more depressed and spiteful. I can honestly say I don't feel Love in just about any sense of the word, but seeing everyone else happy and excluding me would naturally make me a little bit sour.

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my name is rick im30 or something plus 10 years old, inthe 70s iwas in the militaryafter a year and a half they kicked me out and they diagnosed me as autistic it seems ever since then ive bin running away from that diagnosis.a year ago i stoped running came back home to my mother and got amodern diag. asperger now i goto the autism society for groups here in minnesota.ohh doi miss the twoyears before here in california and before that2years on the north shore of oahu. thruout my life i never felt a sense of belonging or asense of comunity till i hooked up with the minn autism society.heck i just became a registered voter this is my first computerim learning about computers from navigating wrong planet , me and electronic things sometimes dont get along. iam eurasian born in afrench german border town, the asian is korean my french german mother is asperger her 5sisters are aspi allthere kids areaspie my grama great oma were aspies as a mater of fact its agenetic tree ofan autistic royal bloodline.and aspergers is a big seacret in this familytree. no body wants to here about it, they have all bin conditioned by the church and hitler to hide it or die .boy do i have stories. ive met 1000s of people in my life never had friends i assume the conciousness of the person or group im around to fit in. i have many inate gifts. ive learned many skills ive worked as a usaf security policeman ,cabinet maker wine consultant bartender fine dinning waiter cook rest. mgr.animal trainner . ive done things for money i just as soon forget. my bro helped make the movie motzart and the whale . a spinoff ofthe movie rainman.he trains animals for the motion picture industry.no one on the cast or crew knew the person who supplied and trained the animals had asperger syndrom. and the whole movie was about aspergersyndrom i recomend this film.

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