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Hi, my name is Sue Fox and I have Asperger's. All my life, I've always felt "different", it's that none of my family are the same way as I am...

My hobbies include: reading, (I'm a natural bookworm!), using the computer, visits to Art Galleries,Museums and the Beach, shopping for clothes, listening to music (CD's and the radio), watching TV and movies, I love fashion, I'm also am a practicing Pagan,
(it's one my subjects I have learned about at great lengths).

I have a condition called " Delayed Echolalia", I memorise songs, movies and TV shows.

I have a daily routine, my day has like a "time schedule", eg. get up at 7:30, brush teeth at 7:35...(According to me, if that gets disrupted..my whole day is ruined!) I get upset easily aswell, if someone yells at me or gets annoyed as I don't speak up for myself sometimes.

When I was younger, I did random "+" sums repeatedly, and I had a book where I used a bingo marker everytime we passed a traffic light, I just had to do them.

I rarely make eye-contact with people, not even some of my own family, I tend to keep looking ahead, on the ground, or the opposite direction, not looking at their faces.

I have a problem understanding what people say to me, it's that they believe I don't listen, it's just I don't grasp what they say.

I find it hard to approach people, I can't ask for help; in case I get confused in what I want to ask, or they don't understand me.

So, if anyone would like to talk to me, it would be great! Thanks!

Last edited by whisper775 on 05 May 2010, 4:33 am, edited 1 time in total.

Is that anything like a photographic or typographic memory?

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Hello Sue, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

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Hello, Sue, and welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet neighborhood.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Your observations should be most interesting.

I am NOLAN I have had aspergers all my life and I am just plain weird!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

weird can be fun. normal is boring.

Welcome to WrongPlanet, and welcome to my time warp.

Before I showed up here, I thought I thought I was the most unique person on the planet. Now-a-days, reading posts like yours, I feel rather pedestrian.


Your unique viewpoints will be welcomed here. Creating a blog or new posts might not get much feedback, so try to be active and join other discussions in progress. There's plenty of threads on the above topics going on right now.


Systematization is the sign of a great mind.
I've found that not only following a set routine, but preparing an elaborately detailed schedule allows me to force myself to do things I otherwise wouldn't want to do. This allows me to push my boundaries and achieve more for myself. i.e. I'll study for 10 hours straight, even though I really feel like going home and watching movies, simply because I scheduled it a week before and don't like changing anything at the last minute.


Welcome to the club. Luckily, this becomes less of a problem as time goes on.


Mathematics is predicted to be one of the best fields to be in over the next decade.
...just sayin'.


I had that problem too. I solved it by focusing my attention on the bridge of the nose. That lead to an overcompensation, and I was accused of trying to 'drill' peoples' faces. You can't win -- but practice might make it easier to compensate for.


Nothing beats an apropos "Hmm.... well..." with a full arm stretch to slow down the conversation and give you time to process.


Ahh... the penny drops. Unfortunately there's no reason to assume that anyone here has a definitive answer to this, as it's the defining feature of us auties. Lack of sociability can be the most challenging aspect of your life -- it is for me -- or you can just decide to live with it as many people here have. If you do accept to live up to this challenge, please let us know how it goes. (I'm most certainly always looking for more data.)

Anyways, welcome to WP! Hope to see you around the board.

AspieForty======>for me, it's more of a "photographic memory", I can remember things like 10 years ago! And I know different passwords to various websites (amazon, eBay, e-mail)

AdmiralCrunch=====>Thanks for being understanding and supportive!

Welcome to WP!!