Hello, it is most pleasureable to meet you all.
I'm male, 16 and from western Canada.
I just recently got an official diagnosis of Asperger's/HFA. No-one in my family other than my parents know about this, since we think that it may cause them even more confusion; I also have another large diagnosis, which is very serious, but could be misunderstood if we tell them about my Asperger's/HFA. I have to take meds by injection for this other diagnosis, so please don't be alarmed if I go on a rant one day about how having needles is the most horrible thing it the world. I have a bunch of different sensory issues, the main ones being touching, colours, patterns, noise, heat.... etc. Like many Asperger's/HFA people, I have many obsessions, which include Chassidic Judaism, anything Russian, history, Mathematics [doing it], categorizing things, languages etc.
I've never been a very social person, but I can appear very social at times, but the thing is that when I get really social it's a sign that I'm extremely desperate for something, and that I don't know how to ask for it properly. I don't really have any friends, but I don't see this as being a problem at all, even though my parents [used to] act like this was [is] the end of the world. I'm a huge fan of Monty Python [basically the only type of humor I can stand], and am currently trying to research vintage calculators.
Favorite writers/poets: Fyoder Dostoevsky, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Babel, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Dickens, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Silverberg, William Shakespeare.... the list is never-ending, but my favorite genres are sci-fi and Russian or Jewish literature
Favorite music: Anything psychedelic, black + death metal, classical, goa trance, trance, ambient.... etc. I play the violin.