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Well, hello everyone, my name is Sean. Was born in KC, MO (10/03/1980) and live in NC (some miles west of Raleigh). Ive lived in this state since 1986 and am the oldest of 3 brothers (the other 2 are NT as far as we can tell). Like everyone else, I had the hard, solitary life of one in the ASD (apparently i had autistic traits growing up, but there was little delay in much else). Did well in school, academically of course, but not socially (math and science being my strong points). My brothers and i got along fairly well (as in we didnt beat the crap outta each other all the times . . . unless it was in a game ).

Personal interests pretty much boil down to sci-fi/fantasy genre entertainment, and science/math interests (though only on random topics, from exoskeletons to railguns). Battletech, Exo-Squad, Robotech, and other various mech oriented concepts have piqued my interests for as long as i can remember. I'll also surf the net for more tech info and consider how it could be applied or modified for the hell of it.

As far as education, completed High School, got my AA in General Arts, AS in Biotechnology, and 70+ hours towards a BS in Electrical Engineering (had to drop out for financial and personal reasons). Oddly, with my continuous shift in interests, i could never really focus on one thing as a profession (save the general field). Not sure i can say much more since a lot has been stated by others here already.

With respect to personality, Im typically easy going and avoid stress at all costs (stress tires me out seeing as how i try to shut down before having a meltdown). I do what i can to not worry, but certain things will upset me (like my parents getting on my case to keep up job hunting when i cannot for the love of me focus on something that doesnt give me a mental high). My games, books, or favorite shows are the only things that give me some relief . . . but i absolutely HATE/DESPISE/LOATHE/REVILE being forced to do something, especially if there isnt some mental gratification from doing it.

Welcome to WP!

I'm too shy to make a whole new thread about myself, so I guess I'll just write here. My name is Goren - that's the name I chose for myself and I prefer it over anything written in my passport or any other official paper. I was born 16/10/1982 in a city called Leningrad in a country called Soviet Union - thankfully, neither of those exists anymore. I was diagnosed with Aspergers in the age of 12, but no action was taken, mostly due to the fact that my parents and me didn't want to have a stigma of 'mental decease'. I went to normal school, then the university, graduating with major in Behavioural Biology. In 2007 I had to leave Russia because of political repression and ended up in Auckland, New Zealand, where I was formally studying in UOA, but basically led the life of a hikikomori, suffering from social isolation and spontaneous depression. I got out of it earlier this year, starting a new study program for a joint degree in Maths and CS. Now I am mostly feeling better, but I still didn't find any friends in New Zealand. I thought that maybe communicating with aspie community would help me to better connect socially.

Hello persons! I am smischmal and I recently found out about Asperger Syndrome when I was reading wikipedia. I had been feeling more and more estranged from people as I was learning more about how people think and realizing that maybe I really was as weird as (or weirder than) people had been telling me I was. Finding out about Asperger Syndrome of course tells me nothing I didn't already know about myself but as a label I hope it will help me meet and find out about interesting people that I can better relate to. Anyways, I spent the last few days reading the "You might be an Aspie if..." thread and decided that maybe I would post something (though I won't post on that thread until I finish reading it).

By the way, no smischmal is not my real name, I created it out of nothing when I was fourteen as a name that would be completely unique and therefore would not be taken elsewhere on the internet. So far, I'm the only one, so if you google my name, all those results are me.

I am 19 and I live in the California's North Bay Area. In general I'm really interested in robotics and artificial intelligence and physics. This last week or so though, I've been obsessing over understanding various different types of minds (which led to my discovering this site). I'm currently going to junior college for transfer into some university in physics.

I also read sci-fi books (mostly post-cyberpunk stuff lately, though I also enjoy classics like Niven and Asimov), and enjoy playing with various toys such as my prized devil sticks.

Every morning I eat six eggo waffles with peanut butter and syrup with a coke, but you probably didn't need to know that.

Welcome to WP!

'Ello. I'm somewhat paranoid, so I won't give out my name. As for my nickname, I just like cacti. Not that I've ever researched them or anything, and I've only ever owned one (for a period of about a week) to use as a prop in my short film, but I just think that the whole concept of an inanimate organism that can defend itself from practically anything is pretty cool.

I don't know if I have AS or not, but based both on what people keep telling me ("YOU THINK TOO MUCH! STOP THINKING!") and the countless hours of research that I've done (does collecting hundreds of car brochures and scouring through every single page count as a narrow obsession?) I'd be pretty shocked if I didn't have it, or at least PDD-NOS. It looks like I'll be seeing a doctor shortly, so we'll see, hopefully...

I remind myself a lot of Malcolm, as in Malcolm in the Middle--except Malcolm is actually more socially viable and better at getting girls (or, in my case, girls or guys; I'm bi) than I am, which is pretty messed up seeing as Malcolm is pretty much the designated loser in the show. Oh yeah, that reminds me... if immaturity is a symptom, I've got that too. I'm not sure how common it is for 21-year-olds to watch that show, but I have a feeling it isn't very common. (In my defense, I couldn't watch it when I was younger, so I'm making up for lost time.) On the flip side, I can also be a lot more mature than most people when I want to. Actually, to be blunt, I think most people are really, really stupid. It's gotten to the point where I really do hate most people. I'm a licensed misanthropist.

I feel kind of weird about this introduction since I already pretty much did one separately ("New here [obviously]"), but whatever. Done.

Welcome to WP!

Hello all!

I'm a 23 year-old female named Anya from the Bay area, Ca. I came here at the suggestion of my younger sister to learn more about autism and mostly about ASD since she strongly believes I might have it. After reading some things, I think I probably might have it too. So I'm not officially diagnosed, but I'm looking for some doctor who can evaluate me. It'll have to wait until at least January though, after I get my health insurance back.

I never had a psych evaluation in my life since my parents, especially my dad, were against it. They wanted all of their kids to be considered normal and not have any problems with labels. They came from Poland 25 years ago so their outlook on these things was different. Since my younger 2 sisters moved out with my mom from my dad though, they went and have been evaluated. One of them ended up being diagnosed as bipolar, so anything's possible I think.

My life story sounds like most other people's on here I suppose. I was the same way as far back as I can remember. I was and am very shy, quiet, and solitary most of the time. I couldn't and still can't properly understand people and their ways, and it seems a lot of attempts I made at socializing ended up where I was scolded, ridiculed, or looked at funny (even now). I was and am always awkward, and it's hard for me to make conversation unless something interests me, extremely. It has always been thought that I'd grow out of these problems, but I haven't, and it's not easy. It's just who I am.

All my time at school was horrible, especially middle school and high school. At least I somehow managed Elementary school, and was in the gifted program (which probably made things worse, since it was seen as nothing could possibly be wrong with me). I remember I went to a counselor at one point in 5th grade to find out how to make friends. It didn't work that well. I also had to go on independent study toward the end of both middle and high school when I realized I couldn't handle it. From all that time, I only had 2 friends too (1 middle school, 1 high school), and only keeping in touch with 1 nowadays. I prefer it that way anyway since I have problems trusting people nowadays too.

Every class I went and go to then random people always remark that I'm too quiet, weird, you think too much, or there's something wrong with me. Many teachers made such comments too but nothing was ever done. Also I get many comments where people think I'm not happy, because I'm not smiling even though I think I am or am generally content. : \ My friends always told me that I'm one of the nicest people they met, but people who barely know me think I'm mean or something, I don't know. I mostly just thought that I was normal and the rest of the people were just crazy, but I did have thoughts sometimes that maybe I am a little strange.

I still don't have a college degree. I've been in an online relationship with someone for almost 7 years, and I believed a lot of stuff I shouldn't have ( I thought it was ok since I was with the guy in real life for about 1.5 years too ). So I have neglected college unfortunately. The person ended up being a sociopath or something and led me to believe that everything was great and ok, until he just suddenly dumped and disappeared 3-4 weeks ago. Yes I was extremely dumb. Before him, I believed I'd be by myself forever, and right now I think that way too since I was massively betrayed.

I'm still not sure what to major in college either, it seems my interests shift too much and once I'm interested in something else, it's hard to stay interested in other things. I'm mainly interested (obsessed) in birds, high fantasy, computers, mmorpgs, and music that sounds beautiful. Those 5 things have been my consistent interests for a decade at least, birds have been all my life. I also like to research random things and read (news, history, sometimes books). I used to love making art, just haven't been doing it for a few years due to being on the computer too much. I might end up doing computers, but I have a ton of math to catch up on and I'm worried about the economics of it, so those are the only things holding me back on that for now. Btw, I watch no TV.

Besides all these things, I strongly prefer to stay at home, and do things only when I plan to. I hate randomness and spontaneity. I also have a drivers license, but I don't trust myself driving the car. I have a problem recognizing my space around it (for many years) and too many factors overwhelm me, so I don't drive.

Anyway, it's great to see a place where I can relate to more people than not. If I end up just being a normal weirdo, that's ok too. I always believe that everyone, regardless of being seen by a doctor or not, have their own problems and mental issues though. :)

Welcome to WP!

I'm Aaron, I will go in for diagnosement on Monday to see if I'm officially aspie, which I think is 99% likely. I'm ok at hiding most of my symptoms, but I'm still incredibly weird.

Tex, you need not feel obligated to follow this with a welcome message, I can see it in the above posts.

Just joined - I've read about autism and asperger's and find myself associating with a lot of the characteristics.

For as long as I can remember I've felt socially disconnected from people. At school I was always the quiet one in the class, and found it extremely difficult to interact with others. This has led to many uncomfortable and awkward experiences, which continue to this day. I've only managed to maintain about one real friendship over the last 6 years. I'm very much an introvert and don't enjoy going out much, preferring to spend time by myself. Currently I'm in the second year of a law degree at university, and finding it increasingly difficult as I'm expected to participate in more extrovert activities.

did you ever try acting? I don't mean acting classes, tho they may help too. But I act like I'm another person when I'm in public (not anybody specific, just me) and it helps me interact with almost anybody.

I have joined after looking around at a few things, but I will have to see what happens from here. My two main interests are music (almost any genre) and languages.

Hey guys, noob here.
I'm JVDifferent (short for justverydifferent), but you can call me just JVD. It's my handle because yeh, I've always felt that I'm just very different. My family seems to think that I try to be different, but honestly I don't, as you guys would probably understand entirely.

I recently read and researched about Asperger's Syndrome whilst reading Savage Love (an *awesome* sex and relationships column, by the by) and just stopped dead at how relevant everything in the description was to me. And then I started lurking here, as well as reading into other sources of information. I am actually going to a psychologist in three days for a diagnosis. Here's to hoping she's good at what she does. :/

I have a lot less trouble making friends than I used to, and apparently a lot of the friends I have find my odd quirks, interests and gestures endearing (as well as weird). However, anything beyond friends... I freak out, get inexplicably confused, and never know what my emotions are, let alone how to communicate and act upon them. It's really frustrating, and depresses me when it happens.

I'm currently doing a Master of Animation at university- the title is awesome because it sounds like a Dungeons and Dragons prestige class. So much so that I plan to dress as a necromancer when I graduate.