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Welcome to WP from a fellow Texan!

What is your first name? Tim

Age: 30

Location: Houston, Texas (interim)

Hobbies and Interests: Geography, geology, art, architecture, stand-up comedy, foreign languages and cultures, home design, green technology, urban planning, sustainability, transportation, road trips

Why are you here? Fellowship with others on the spectrum.

When were you diagnosed? 1996, at age 16. I was previously diagnosed as PDD-NOS.

Favorite subjects: Soil Science, Urban Geography, Public Administration, Energy Resource Management.

Year/Grade: Received my BS in Geography/Urban Planning in December 2009.

Favorite music: anything but rap and country.

Books: Canterbury Tales (especially the Miller's Tale), other than that, mostly self-help books.

Movies: I like comedies, indie, arthouse, and foreign films.

Family: Parents, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, and tons of cousins. I am an only child.

Clothing: Usually a T-shirt and shorts.

How did you find this website? I found it in 2004 through another AS forum.

Job: In the process of looking.

Plans for the future? Look for work, debate over whether to pursue graduate studies, and meet Miss Perfect, marry her, then start a family.

Thanks!

Age: 28

Location: Tromsø, Norway

Hobbies and Interests: Role playing games, Strategy games, EVE online, Philodphy (Naturall and Political),
Fantasy and Sci-fi litterature

Why are you here? I've got Asperger's

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
Late winter 2009

Favorite subjects:

Year/Grade:

Favorite music:
Nigthwish, Tarja Tureenen, Nox Arcana anything else that sounds good

Books:
Enders Game w/sequels, Wheel of Time, Black Jewels, Nigths Dawn.

TV shows/Movies:
NCIS, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Eureka

Instrument:

Do you like sports?
Not really, but do like to watch women's tennis

Family:
7 Siblings of one I don't know, a mom married to a new husband, dad married to another woman and then divorced.. he's currently with a new woman

Clothing:
Dark Jeans and generally dark clothing, nothing intentionaly fashionable.

How did you find this website?
Link from Wikipedia

Job:
Unemployed, starting job training/adaptation programme soon

Plans for the future?
Not really, planning was never my strong forte

Comments
I looking forward to join a communety of MY peers, instead of being the outsider in nuronormal society

Welcome Lord-of-Venom.

Good to see a friend from Norway here. Norway is a fascinating place, I long to visit the wonderful country!

Updated info from me

Age: 19

Location: Singapore

Hobbies and Interests: Urban studies, urban planning, sleeping

Why are you here? I'm a HFA

When were you diagnosed? 1999

Favorite subjects: Geography

Year/Grade: 12

Favorite music: Duran Duran! Westlife and Eminem too

Books: To Kill A Mockingbird

Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks

Do you like sports? YES. Howay the lads, go toons! (Newcastle Utd)

Family: 2 sisters and mom and dad

Clothing: Plain tee, jeans and sneakers.

How did you find this website? Friend's recommendation

Plans for the future? Just slacking

Comments: I love WrongPlanet!

Thanks for the welcome, everyone!

Welcome to WP!

What is your first name? Matthew

Age: 27

Location: NSW Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Filmmaking, Cinema, Engineering, Inventing, Comedy

Why are you here? Was here before, vanished, now back

When were you diagnosed? 2005

Favorite subjects: Screenwriting

Year/Grade: Bachelor of Engineering Civl 2006, Post Grad Dip Screenwriting 2009

Favorite music: anything but rock and roll that has a point and a rhythm and a feeling will always be superior to all comers

Books: Rendezvous With Rama, Dune, Foundation, almost every filmmaking book ever written

Movies: Lawrence of Arabia, 2001, The Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, Amelie, There Will Be Blood, Animal House

Family: smallish

Clothing: I have no sense of fashion nor do I even bother to try

How did you find this website? stumbling

Job: may be changing careers from science to the arts

Plans for the future? ???

Welcome to WP!

What is your first name? Matthew

Age: 27

Location: Texas, United States

Hobbies and Interests: Art, literature, reading nonfiction, microtonal music, asymmetry and hyperdetail

Why are you here? Curiosity, confusion

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 2005

Favorite subjects: Sciences, Maths


Favorite music: Gesualdo, Barbara Strozzi, Syd Barrett, Scriabin, Ciurlionis, Michael Yonkers, Morphine, Johnny Hartman, Curtis Mayfield

Books: encyclopedias, french works of the mid 20th century, psychology

TV shows/Movies: Black Books, Peep Show

Instrument: Piano, fretless guitar

Do you like sports? Sometimes

Clothing: Burgundy cardigan over a black tee and black stretch slacks

How did you find this website? Link pogoing

Job: none, for the moment

Plans for the future? A move, getting art in a gallery, illustration gigs, a return to college (focusing on plant genetics, ultimately)

Welcome to WP from a fellow Texan!

Thanks for the friendly welcome, Tim. Hope the weather's not too cool for you.

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What is your first name? Sibyl oddly enough!

Age: 65

Location: Kansas

Hobbies and Interests: Probably too many to list. Church, (Episcopalian), Science Fiction+ all other reading possible-- the internet is a Godsend to me, Science of all sorts, including the Social Sciences, needlework, music, politics, my pets, -- I guess that's enough.

Why are you here? Asperger's, cyclical Clinical Depression

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): last year: 2008, actually, with the Aspergers. I've known about the Depression and coped with it for about forty years now. It's easier with the modern antidepressants.

Favorite subjects: see above

Year/Grade: n/a: graduated from High School, some college, no Bachelor's

Favorite music: Classical, Jazz, older rock, folk

Books: LOL! yes. Crowding me out of my house, and favorites wouldn't be possible, too many.

TV shows/Movies: I don't go to movies any more, too crowded. See some on television, but I don't have cable or satellite, only 6 or 7 channels of broadcast. I like "Bones" and "Monk"-- one guess why! Also CSI's

Instrument: Piano, clarinet (not for years) recorder, guitar, mountain dulcimer, banjo once upon a time, but not lately.

Do you like sports? no

Family: I have a grown daughter, a son-in-law, a granddaughter, and forty zillion cousins. Was married for thirteen years.

Clothing: sweatsuits, mostly, since I retired. "Duster" dresses in summer, or t-shirts and culottes. Dresses or pantsuits when called for.

How did you find this website? URL in a book about Asperger's: don't remember which

Job: When I was working, I held a lot of different jobs, never one for long at a time.

Plans for the future? Getting older until I die-- see above on "interests"

Any comments? probably will be some coming along as I respond to more threads.

Welcome to WP!

What is your first name? Emma

Age: 42

Location: Berlin, Germany

Hobbies and Interests: reading, sudoku, horseriding, rock and metal concerts

Why are you here? Because I'm tired of always getting it "wrong" and need to feel Im not alone

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): early 70's. My mother told me in 1984 that the doctor had diagnosed me autistic when i was a small child.

Favorite subjects: law, jurisprudence,medicine,biology

Year/Grade: doing a doctorate in biotech law

Favorite music: metal/rock

Books: both fiction and factual science books. I prefer literature written by women as it tends to be clearer at explaining how and why people feel and act.

TV shows/Movies: CSI Vegas, Grey's Anatomy, Amelie, Donnie Darko

Instrument: Flute

Do you like sports? Yes, but not team sports, never got the hang of them. Running, tennis, horseriding,swimming, canoeing. My only problem is motivating myself to get out the house...

Family: Not really any more. More than half the family are aspergers or fully autistic -it can blow a family apart as many people here will know.

Clothing: normally jeans and T shirt but im getting an interest in 40s style dresses and shoes, and making my appearance a bit more of a project. Right now im in pyjamas.

How did you find this website? cant recall, probably googled something about autism/aspergers

Job: student again. I used to work in computers- tech support, but it got boring, less analytical.

Plans for the future? some sort of post teaching/researching in Biotech Law

Any comments? Recently, one too many persons has commented on how great it is that I do X Y or Z and dont care how odd it looks- when I didnt realise what I was doing could be considered odd. I dont want to change who I am, but I think I just want to be here to reassure myself that the neurotypical norms arent everything...