Friendship Board - Age 19 Onwards

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Age - 19 and 11/12ths years
Gender - Male
Occupation - Medical Janitor

Yeah i am aspie, but i tend to have a more normal life exapt for a few issues like i still cannot drive (blames his own parents who are far to lazy to even teach him), and i still havent been in a relationship of the slightest sense yet.


current thoughts: why does this thread remind me too much of the introduce yerself thread...

Hi, my name is Jeff, I've recently decided to become an aspie.... ok not really, attempted humor most likely fails again.


actually I've been living with the symptoms my whole life and only recently found out why

I'm 25, I live in the Kalamazoo/Portage, Mi area. Ugh... even this is difficult


I would like to actually meet some other aspies.

Jeff

Hi, I'm Daniel; 37 years old, single and living on the south coast of England.

I self-diagnosed with Asperger's about 5 years ago; since then I have learnt a lot about myself and people in general. I have absolutely zero instinctive empathy, and have to use my very high intelligence to compensate.

I'm an atheist, I'm interested in philosophy and science and I'm a member of the local humanist society.

Some of my other interests are growing vegetables, cycling, long walks in the countryside, computer programming, and classical music.

I have a few friends, but really not many, and I don't see them very often.

I'd like to meet more people who share a similar outlook on life.

I'm Matt. I'm 20 years old. I live in the middle of nowhere, MD. I'm decent at basketball. I'm a good chess player. I'm more NT than most Aspies are. Women don't like me. Guys think I'm the coolest thing since ice. I have an interesting sense of humor. I'm pretty intelligent, even for an Aspie. I'm passionate about politics, and I probably know more about it than you do. I can get along with anybody if they have an open mind.

I'm Tim. I am 28, about to be 29, attending in school in San Marcos, Texas (between San Antonio and Austin). I am majoring in geography and urban planning.

With the exception of maybe Metalocalypse, I like virtually all animated sitcoms.

In my spare time, I am on online forums or creating lists pertaining to geographical information. I made a list of all the zip codes in the U.S., including all 50 states and our territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, etc.). That's over 40,000 codes!

I also work out a lot.

Heya, don't wanna give my real name out here, but I was diagnosed with Asperger's Disorder in early 2007. I just found out about this forum thru google.

Here's a bit about me:

-I'm a determied, resislient, hardly giving up person.

-I'm also kind hearted, nice, honest and a bit of a joker/clown too XD

-I also love parodies and I'm a deep thinker and can be pretty analytical too.

-Some of my close friends say I'm a pretty good motivator and good listener.

-My inspiration comes from using soccer physolosphies and applying it to real life(e.g. the match ain't over till it's over).

-I also use physolosphies from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games like how sometimes it doesn't matter whether you win or lose but it's about finding the truth.

-And I'm pretty open-minded too


Here are some of the things I do and interests:

Activities:
-ASPECTS (Social Group for people with Asperger's Disorder)
-Japanese Beginner's Class at College.

Interests:
Anime, DBZ, Full Metal Panic: Fumofuu, and some other animes, 2D Fighting Video Games, WCCF, some other video games too, Parodies.

Favorite Music:
Mainly inspirational music (e.g. like) Shannon Noll's song "Lift", some Apollo Justice tracks, and anything else that sounds good.

Favorite TV Shows:
Mostly soccer related stuff

Favorite Movies:
The Punisher (2004 ver), Movies with, Samuel L Jackson, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Action, Sci-fi, underdog type movies, (like GOAL trilogy), Zero to Hero, type movies, Comedies, esp., parodies, XD

I'm Katherine. I'm 21. I live in Aus. I like philosophy, language and literature. I was diagnosed with HFA at the end of last year. I work in a library. I'm interested in talking about the interests mentioned above, ASDs, and information management mostly. I'm also a writer, so I'm happy to exchange stories and such (once I've written something worth sharing). That is all.

I've been here for over a year, but I haven't posted in this thread yet. My name is Ole, I'm 19 years old and I'm from Norway. I study economics, which I find quite interesting. My interests apart from college include: Cars, animals (I have for cats), PS3, 3D modelling, lifting weights, watching good movies and listening to music.

My MSN is [email protected]. Feel free to add me or send a PM.

Yeh whatever People here don't want to meet. They prefer the cyber-space.

Yes, I know this from my own experiance

No, I'm not being cynical

Hi, I'm looking for friends!(obviously, or I wouldn't be posting here) I'm 20, female, I go to university, I like painting and I'm constantly scribbling and sketching which annoys some people

I......I don't know what else to say, just message me and ask something if anyone is interested!

I'm Jose, I'm 20, and I'm a junior at Saint Mary's College of California (near San Francisco).

I play a load of video games. Right now, I play a lot of World of Warcraft, I have a Level 80 Troll Mage. It's much better than interacting in the regular world, I think. I don't want to risk rejection or having to hurt others.

My name is Kevin. I am 23, and I currently live in Western New York, USA.

This is really more an exercise in curiosity than optimism. It would be nice to meet or talk with someone of like-mindedness, but I have never really found any person who thinks the way I do. Which might be why there are almost zero people these days that I can seriously consider a friend.

I think distances have a lot do with it. I drove 4 hours to meet someone from this board who I had been chatting with a for a while. As far as I know, nobody in this board lives closer to me.

Plus, many people in this board do not reveal the city they live in so its almost impossible to know offhand if a meeting is even remotely possible.

I'd love to meet saara and matrixlover but for all I know they could be in England or Alaska

Hello there!

I'm 26, male and living in Brighton UK.

I'm not diagnosed with anything, but reading these forums I share a lot of issues with many of the people here and whn you think about it they do have an impact on my life.

I don't have too many people to talk to at the moment beyond my girlfriend and work colleagues being fairly new to the area I live. And I'm finding it hard to meet new people.

So I thouhgt I'd post here to see if there is any one where who would like to chat a little bit so we have more contact with other people

In 1973 there wasn't any ADD or AS only normal, slow, bad, and ret*d children. That was it, that was all. You really didn't want to be in those last 3 groups. Growing up I had a secret. I had been all four. I had been classified as "ret*d" and transferred to a school for special children, but I got better then I was just "very slow". I tried to act normal so people wouldn't think I was still ret*d. By Highschool I had cheated and charmed my way into honors classes. I was normal enough, but couldn't maintain it and dropped out of highschool. It wasn't until I'd graduated from UCLA that someone told me I was definitely not stupid. Next month we'll have been married for 12 years.

My mom and I both struggled with a "perception problem" (her term). With civil rights came the inalienable right to work and the highest divorce rate in US history. There were a lot of single mothers working without a net and so many bad things happened. Back in the 70's and early 80's the workplace hadn't improved that much for women. If you didn't get along well with the other women (not men, they were the bosses) you'd be fired (she had a lot of jobs). Her experience, along with those of my non-normal compadres and a few of my own experiences instilled me with an unspeakable, palpable, constant terror that still haunts me today.

I was committed to passing for normal. I studied speech pathology, debate, toastmasters and improvisational speech, english and other languages, writing, journalism, business writing, psychology, sociological psycology, acting, voice, sight reading, diction, music theory, anger management, mediation and negotiation techniques, eastern philosophy, meditation, music performance, cultural anthropology, linguistics, law, philosphy, interpersonal and mass media, performance evaluation feedback, market research, social science research techniques, mentorships, executive training, meeting management, marketing, time management and above all cognitive and behavioral analysis. I did all this to understand how people create and maintain perceptions so I could manipulate their impression of me.

Funny thing happened, I hated being normal. I despised NT's and became very critical of myself and others. I was so tired of trying, but so scared not to that I had to seek help. Around 1998 I went through a 12 hour neuropsych battery to clear up once and for all if there was something I had to compensate for. The results? "You either are highly intelligent with a learning disability or you don't have one and are in the normal range of intelligence. Tests aren't good enough to distinguish between the two yet, but you could try again in a few years. There wasn't any diagnosis back then and children learn to blend in, especially girls. It's almost impossible to diagnose an adult especially without early records. You're actually very lucky. You don't have to tell anyone. A lot of businesses don't follow the letter of the law. It's sad, but that's the way it is." I have never met an adult known to have AS or autism, and I'm 39.

I have a successful career and good marriage, but I feel competely cut off from the world. It's hard to know what you are when you've worked so hard at hiding it. Things are different now, people are more tolerant of differences. Technology has enabled communities to coalesce when before that was not possible. My deepest thanks to anyone who reads for being the wonderful way you are and thanks also to sites like this so I don't have to be alone anymore.

I've played EQ for 9 years, but props to WoW the most popuar MMRPG out there. Both games give you such valuable opportnities to improve your social skills. It's incredible how much you can learn about interacting with people in groups in an MMRPG. You can try conversations on different people no one knows it's you, and if things don't work out you can delete the character, make a different one or switch worlds. Skill based community games like this give status based on ability so you can be liked and included just for playing well. You learn to type and read really fast too!