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Hi, my name is Rachel, I'm 17 and I'm *almost* certain I have Asperger's Syndrome.

I am currently half-diagnosed, due mainly to my vast array of other mental health issues (epilepsy, chronic depression, OCD, generalized anxiety disorder). Also, I talk without an affect of any sort. On the other hand, I cannot make eye contact for more than a few seconds, have many secret, all-consuming obsessions, and am a nail-biting fiasco machine in social situations.

Due to a long chronic illness, my interests are of a rather sedentary nature: writing, drawing poorly, and desperately trying not to rant to my friends about Doctor Who for upwards of a half-hour. Because it turns out people don't like that, so much that they will flick Cheetos at you. The only other big thing in my life is music.

Seriously, though, the only reason I've been able to keep up my flimsy facade of normalcy is my childhood fascination with...facial expressions and vocal intonations. Very useful, that. Anyway, I'm looking for some clarity, and maybe something to do between doctor's appointments.

hi rachel welcome, i too had the eye thing, but my parents used to drill into us look at me when im talking to u ican look at people now but im not really realy looking at them most of the time im looking thru them, and if i do put the effort tosee their face im focesed on their eyes, them they get uncomfortable

hi everyone.

i'm 34, self-diagnosed with a relatively lucky case of AS. i have a good job, nice flat, so i can shut up and stop lamenting. i have good verbal communication skills, i have a decent sense of humor, and i know a lot of interesting stuff (read wikipedia hours a day, and you will too), so everyone likes me first. it does not last long, though. i have a few friends, and enough hobbies to have a good time.

i have no wife or gf, and i have limited ideas at best, how to get one. my one and only girlfriend left me after a few monthes, i have no clue why, she never told. recently i tried to get a date with a colleague, but she took it as harassing, it seems. about her feelings or intentions, i have zero information, she is not willing to tell.

i have frequent clashes with colleagues, and other people, because i'm too "harsh", or deliberately misinterpret what others say. i think neither is true.

initiating a conversation, or deliberately making new relationships is pretty much out of the question. as of now, i see no way to succeed.

i'm looking for information, tips, tactics. also hoping to talk with people who don't treat my like i was an alien. so i'm here!

Hi there,

Welcome !

Hello everybody,

I'm new to this site, just don't know here to start off. I was just recently diagnosed with asperger's last December by my psychologist I have been visiting. How it all started was when I was getting mad over an issue. I am in the U.S. Coast Guard, living up in Alaska, and my supervisor thought I had anger management issues. So the military clinic refered me to a civillian psychologist to meet, during the workdays, on the military's dime not out of my pocket. So I talked a while with my psychologist, told him what was going on. He told me that my supervisor and other coworkers overreacted and that I was normal. I discussed with him how I was very obsessed with science such as paleontology and evolution, that I wanted to be study somewhere like University of Berkeley to be a paleontologist once I left the military for good, that I like to draw. I also mentioned how I was very intellectual and not much of a social person and that I often had issues with social interactions. That's how I learned that I have aspergers, and how it explained my obsessions in science, why I liked dinosaurs since I was 3 and why I still want to study them, art, why people thought I gave a blank stare to them on purpose during conversations, and other non neurotypical stuff. It also explains why i had not that great of a childhood growing up and attending elementary through high school. I always felt as if I didn't fit in and as if I was too smart to talk to many people in my schools that I considered oversocial idiots.

Anyways, I feel I may likely be discharged from the military, which I can care less, and continue to be a full time college student. I've had it anways with the military and the people I work for.

I hope to learn from others on this site and have fun as well.

Hello, I'm 24 and was only diagnosed with Asperger's yesterday, the late diagnosis is due to the lack of services in my state. I live in Tasmania, Australia. I have two cats and currently live at my Grandfather's house. I have severe anger issues, obsessive tendancies and hate social situations because I always end up being "innappropriate" and the responses from others are generally not very understanding. I am "obsessed" with outer-space and all other facets of the Universe. I have met some nice NT's but most are very ignorant. Most NT's I have met should be classed as "low functioning", half of them don't even read and the other half, well, have you heard the language they use? I don't know if it could even be classified as English. Whereas, on the otherhand, I believe that a lot of Autistic people function on a higher level than they are given credit for. But enough of my vitreolic tirade against NT's, they're not all awful and some of them are intelligent.

hi
im hannah
i was dignosed when i was 13 and i am now 16

I have many names. I was diagnosed when I was around 7. I live alone. I moved far away from my family who I feel ostracised me. I sometimes have difficulties but usually manage to maintain a normal outward appearance, to the extent of which nobody would notice I am different in any way. I hate most inevitabilities, unneccessary repetition, and any weakness on my part. I have a number of talents, I'm not going to state them now. I moved from noticing my differences at a very young age, into learning to mask them, to finding many friends by learning to socialise, and now at the end of this I'd like to start learning more about myself by finding out more about this.

Hey guys!
My name is Rikki and I have joined because in the last half-a-year I have become fascinated by Autism/Aspergers and love interacting with people with it. I have also worked with young people with Autism as part of my youth work and want to learn as much about it as possible! PhilosopherBoi suggested I sign up to this site so I did.

I'm not entirely sure I would say I am NT but I don't know what I am, I just know WHO I am... if that makes sense

I am a producer of deep / weird / experimental Chillout & Ambient music. I have colour-sound Synaesthesia so listening to music is like a trip of beautiful colours and shapes <3 MUSIC IS MY OBSESSION!! ! I am practically always wearing my headphones (the ones in my avatar).

Umm, I am Spiritual. What else... ok flaws: I tend to be a bit opinionated but am trying to curb that lol. Sometimes I get a little too far into myself (if listening to Music for instance) and tend to be a little careless or clumsy.

Um yeah I think that will do for now.

Hello,

I have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and I was stunned at how "Aspie" I was as a child and young adult. I did
not know what was ''wrong' with me; only that others delighted in teasing me, including my family.

My sisters told me I was bad and selfish and weird because I wasn't social. I didn't care about what girls are suppose to care about. I wore runners with dress pants and didn't care; but a peer told me it was wrong with a sneer, "Runners with dress pants, how tacky!"

I thought people were quite mean and rude. I liked sports but didn't have a chance to really learn the skills because peers would rush in front of me and take my turn (ie: Volley ball). Coaches would just glare at me if I didn't hit the ball properly.

I had trouble walking and running; the front part of my body would stick out and lead the way while the bottom half tried to catch up. I really work on posture and walking is easier (but if I am nervous, it is easier to carry something as I walk so it is not just me and my arms and legs). People notice if you walk a bit strangely.

I love animals and have many pets. They are so cute.

One time after school in juniour high, two boys in my grade were throwing rocks at me and my dog. One pushed me down and stole my library books. The librarian told me that I had to pay for the books even though the other boys stole them. Another boy in my class was walking past me (a nicer boy) and asked me if something was wrong. I said absently, "Mark stole my library books, if you beat him up I''ll give you five dollars."

The boy did beat up Mark and I got my books back. Mark was so upset that a boy his own age and size fought him. He told everyone at school that I hired someone to beat him up.....but didn't tell all the details. He felt sorry for himself and didn't take responsibility for him and his friend attacking me and my dog and stealing my books!

I am Dan. I am Irish/ German. I'm a fraternal twin brother, an uncle, and a loving middle child. I like to play cards, strategy games, go for walks in the park, go to bookstores and get lost in the aisles, and be by myself just hanging out. I love to watch movies preferable documentaries as well as thrillers. Love Classic Rock music with the Who being my favorite band. I can say I fit in with my family but sometimes I feel like I don't. Like I do not belong and I am very frustrated because of that. I feel like my life is a downward spiral sometimes because I find it hard to have consistent employment and relationships with women. I'm an Aspie and I understand that. Just wish it would be easier sometimes. Does anyone understand my pain? I hope so.

hi all, newbie here.

i was dianosged last month with asperger's after i had been in the er talking with a psychiatric doctor...it's a personnal reason why i was in the er in the first place.

anywho, i'm 34 and living on my own in ottawa.

Hi everyone,

Just this past Monday, I was talking to a therapist who suggested that I might have Asperger's, which I had never even heard of before. I looked it up and found that many aspects of me are aspie through and through - I have always been socially awkward, and as a child my mother kept telling me I was a weird kid. I have a very very hard time with small talk, and often resort to goofiness to avoid feeling uncomfortable. I have always had problems with motor skills, and my handwriting is terrible. I have always been behind on the new slang terms, which has caused trouble for me in the past. The list goes on and on. I am looking to get diagnosed officially.

I am married, but I have had many marital problems, some related to my inability to react to certain situations the way my wife expects me to. We have had many arguments over my inability to make small talk, seeming lack of interest in her feelings, and my tendency not to know how to deal with her being upset. I also have been shutting myself off because I'm feeling more and more irritated when I get interrupted by her when I'm doing an activity alone. Many times what I'm doing is researching things like pain levels of bee stings, spiciness levels of peppers, places on Google Earth, etc.

My social insecurities and failures have led to depression, and I have become more and more of a loner. I do, however, depserately want to be around people, so it pains me to be alone so much. Knowing that there are other people out there like me (perhaps thousands) gives me comfort, whether or not I am officially an aspie.

Hello, my name is Aaron. I am called 'AJ' or 'Faust' by others. I am 18 years old and reside in the United States. I am a very (very) logical person, but amazingly enough I do have time for creativity.

"Finding patterns is my skill. Believing in patterns- in the existence of patterns- is apparently my creed. It is part of who I am."

This quote above fits me in every way possible, it is me in the form of words.


I am about to finish High School and then I plan on attending the local community college to obtain my Associates Degree of Mathematics. After the two years it takes to obtain my Associates degree, I plan on transferring to a University to pursue a degree in Physics. ^.^

My dream job is to be a Physicist, for I find Physics so absolutely fascinating in every way.

I have an extreme obsession with Physics, it is my special interest after all.
Other Interests (or small obsessions) of mine are: Mathematics, Philosophy (more specifically the branch that deals with Logic), Russian, and Chess.

At the current moment in time I am self-teaching myself advanced Mathematics and Russian.
If you wish to strike up a conversation with me, I have instant messaging clients.

MSN: [email protected]
Yahoo: [email protected]
AIM: Gaston Delacroix

Hi, my name is not important. I am a 30 year old norwegian man and very intelligent and very stupid at the same time.

I selfdiagnosed myself with Asperger today after "confirming" it by doing the online test. On which I scored bullseye on almost everything but neurotypical stuff...

I've struggled with social anomalies and ineptness all my years, but never attributed them to any form of disorder. In fact, nobody did, so I've spent my entire life in painful bliss. Knowing about this condition has given me new hope to be understood at a higher degree than I previously thought possible. Thank you for this site!

Since I never knew about this, and since I don't really have any immediately apparent physical traits that would suggest otherwise, I've been taught and trained to be normal among other normal people. It is not generally possible to see it in me, unless you penetrate the seemingly transparent, but solid, shield that I've built around myself. Which in fact is extremely hard if not impossible for outsiders to crack anyway. Maybe this forum can soften it up?

I'm completely obsessed with computer programming, and have been since I was 8 years old. I also care about science (particularily space, infinity and physics), philosophy (how religions are wrong, but still right), the concept of death (and have come to conclusions that fully satisfy me intellectually) and in recent years politics.

I'm heterosexual and I've had a pretty good amount of relationships, if you can call them that, that lasted just about exactly two weeks each. One of the relationships lasted about two years though, and was my last one (two years ago, she found herself a new and better boyfriend before ending it with me). All my girls have been atypical by means of physical appearance or psychological quirks (or both). This translates to fat, ugly and borderline schizophrenic by popular views, but I've found I somehow get attracted to that. Maybe because I subconsciously seek women with more brains than boobs? Recently, though, I have lost any interest in the female species, because I find most of them vulgarly shallow and mentally limited. It still doesn't mean I'm gay though, it simply means I don't care about any of these things anymore.

I wish this board to be a place where I can pour my garbage thoughts onto, and where people actually want to listen to what I have to say for once. Thanks.