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What is your first name? Lucika

Age: 29

Location: Maine

Hobbies and Interests: Family, music, art, cooking, sewing, crafts, reading, writing

Why are you here? I am in a serious/committed relationship with an AS man, I am NT. We have relationship problems that I hope to find help with.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): My boyfriend was diagnosed 1.5 years ago at age 30.

Favorite subjects: humor, cooking, music/art, current events, mental health, family interests

Year/Grade: High School Graduate

Favorite music: Rock, metal, rap, old country, etc, etc...

Books: Self help/mental health issues, philosophical, murder/mystery, suspense

TV shows/Movies: Parenthood, Modern Family, The Office, Parks & Recreation, Once Upon A Time, Cops, The Big Bang Theory, Reno 911, investigation shows

Instrument: Sewing machine, whisk, spatula, rolling pin...

Do you like sports? No

Family: I have three amazing children. My oldest son is 8, my daughter is 7 and my youngest son is 5. My boyfriend of 2+ years lives with us and we have two cats and one dog.

Clothing: Standard fat housewife attire

How did you find this website? searching the web for AS relationship info.

Job: Home maker/disabled (congestive heart failure)

Plans for the future? I want a real house and peaceful days for my whole family

Any comments? I can't wait to get started reading through this forum and getting to know people. It seems a bit overwhelming but I hope I can stick to it and find some value in here. Thanks.

It's a bit late, but about time I did this:

What is your first name? Jess, obviously.

Age: 15 (And about 8 months)

Location: East Midland in England

Hobbies and Interests: Music, playing music, listening to music, watching music videaos, reading, and the internet.

Why are you here? Because my dad though it would be good if I join an Asperger's forum.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): When I was 4, though I didn't find I had it until I was 9.

Favorite subjects: Music, maths.

Year/Grade: 11

Favorite music: ROCK MUSIC!! ! Yes, mostly rock.

Books: I don't have a favourite book.

TV shows/Movies: Same as above, only shows/movies, not books.

Instrument: What, one I play? Guitar. An electric one.

Do you like sports? NO!! !!

Family: My Mum, my Stepdad, half brother, half sister, my dad who lives somewhere else.

Clothing: Yes, of course. What, you expect me to go everywhere whilst naked?

How did you find this website? I searched "Forums for asperger's" or something like that.

Job: None...

Plans for the future? I want to help record/edit songs. Seems more realistic than being in a famous band.

Any comments? No.

What is your first name?: Meep

Age: 16

Location: Java

Hobbies and Interests: gaming, programming, reading, writing

Why are you here?: Because I'm too AD to get the other thing I'm working on done without straying to other sites.

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

Favorite subjects: Drama, Art, Math

Year/Grade: 11

Favorite music: Rock/Metal

Books: Sabriel, Garth Nix

TV shows/Movies: My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic

Instrument: Piano, Vocals, Violin, Guitar

Do you like sports?: No

Family: Mother, Father, Older Brother, three younger sisters and one younger brother

Clothing: T-shirt and track pants, I would wear robes and leather jackets if I was allowed and it wasn't too hot

How did you find this website?: Searching something else

Job: student

Future Plans: become metal star, probably not gonna happen, get married, become game designer

What is your first name? Hannah

Age: 15

Location: England

Hobbies and Interests: Biopsychology, Space, Swimming.

Why are you here? To learn more about AS and meet other, like-minded people.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): No official diagnosis, but AS has been very strongly suspected for a number of years.

Favorite subjects: Physics, Maths, ICT, Psychology, Philosophy, Neurology, German.

Year/Grade: 11

Favorite music: Electronic, generally, but Classical and Rock are good too.

Books: None in particular.

TV shows/Movies: House, I,Robot, The Island, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock.

Instrument: None, but interested in Piano.

Do you like sports? Only swimming.

Family: Mum (AS), Dad and a Sister aged 14. (Both NT)

Clothing: It doesn't matter, as long as it's comfy and practical.

How did you find this website? Wikipedia, oddly enough.

Job: None. (Student)

Plans for the future? Hoping to go to Uni, studying either Neuroscience, Educational Psychology or Astrophysics.

Any comments?

What is your first name? Mikaila

Age: 16

Location: New Zealand

Hobbies and Interests: Neuroethology, ornithology, Tai Chi, music, cooking, architecture, volunteer work (eg. at the Bird Wing of the SPCA) and a million other things

Why are you here? I want to talk to and hear from others with AS / seems like a good way to meet people with AS

When were you diagnosed?: 31/03/2012 with AS, and definitely have OCD tendencies

Favorite subjects: Biology, Geography

Year/Grade: 12 (have one year left of school after this)

Favorite music: All sorts - particularly KT Tunstall, Eminem, Sara Barielles and Newton Faulkner at the moment as well as 90s music, classical, jazz, rock and country plus heaps of others.

Books: I wish I had more time to read! Lately though I've read and enjoyed Jane Eyre and My Sister's Keeper.

TV shows/Movies: Bones, Friends and That 70s Show reruns. I always fall back on kids movies when I fell unwell like Napoleon (the dog one) and Spirit.

Instrument: Piano and I used to do vocals, violin and flute.

Do you like sports? It's growing on me.

Family: Mum, Dad, x step Mum, little sister, an Aunty who is more like a big sister and grew up at our house and close friend who has lived with us for years.

Clothing: My favorites and most worn are my dresses.

Job: Student, as well as part time after school care assistant at our local primary school (love it), website updater for a friends poster business website, and voluntary Editor of New Zealand Finch Breeders Association 'Finches' Magazine

Plans for the future? Hopefully I'll get into Australia National University, move to Australia, graduate and then get a PhD, and then travel around the world as a neuroethologist specializing in ornithology. Fingers crossed....

Any comments? I think I've gone super crazy and posted lots of things already. For some reason I just felt like I needed to connect and go blurbalurbalurbal. I also have lots of questions, as I'm still relatively new to realizing that I have AS. Looking forward to meeting lots of people on here

Age: 20

Location: Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Music, videogames, cartooning, film-making

Why are you here? To better understand myself and this condition.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Last year. (19 years-old)

Favorite subjects: Music, English

Year/Grade: Tertiary

Favorite music: Most all of it. But right now: hard rock, metal, funk, and Primus.

Books: Uhh... I don't read much.

TV shows/Movies: The Simpsons, Futurama, QI, Cowboy Bebop.

Instrument: Keyboard/Piano

Do you like sports? Nope.

Family: Mum/dad, younger brother.

Clothing: Clothes?

How did you find this website? My psychologist handed it onto me.

Job: None.

Plans for the future? I'd like to be a composer for film/TV/etc.

Any comments? Too many to list for now.

What is your first name?

Age: 18

Location: Maryland, moving to Vermont for school very soon

Hobbies and Interests: Cooking, Playing and collecting old school video games, discovering music, live music, cats, flowers, exploring the outdoors, tea.

Why are you here? Feeling very self aware of my aspergers recently, trying to find people I relate to because I have lost all my "friends"

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I was diagnosed when I was 9.

Favorite subjects: Culinary, World History, English, Anatomy.

Year/Grade: Graduated high school this year.

Favorite music: Indie music, shoegaze (love black tambourine and TPOBPAH), hardcore, sludge, screamo (bands like Orchid and Jeromes dream), Emo (Not what people consider emo to be today), noise, dream pop, and occasionally I enjoy some hip-hop. I am very eclectic with my music tastes

Books: American Psycho

TV shows/Movies: Tim and Eric, Eric andre show, Workaholics, No reservations, Wonder Showzen

Instrument: I played the baritone and trombone in middle school and high school marching band. Trying to learn the bass currently.

Do you like sports? I wouldn't consider myself a fanatic, but I do enjoy baseball.

Family: My mom, her boyfriend and my brother (who is an abusive human being who takes advantage of my aspergers)

Clothing: Jeans and band shirts aha.

How did you find this website? doing searches in google about aspergers and this site came up.

Job: I work at a Jimmy Johns (fast food is terrible, only doing this job for college money)

Plans for the future? I hope to become a very well known Italian and Hawaiian Influenced chef, build an incredible nintendo collection, visit every state, start my own shoegaze band, and settle into a home with a significant other and a couple cats

What is your first name?: Mark

Age: 25

Location: British Columbia

Hobbies and Interests: Gaming, Reading, Movies and Television, my Dog and Cat

Why are you here?: I am looking to have casual internet friends who won't be weirded out when I say the wrong things.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I am currently going through my second attempt at navigating the Canadian mental health system... I am wary of self-diagnosis but also of hasty professional diagnosis as it is difficult to have psychiatric continuity of care in Canada without paying extensively.

Favorite subjects: Geography, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Drafting, GIS

Year/Grade: University Graduate

Favorite music: Punk, Indie punk, blues, jazz, funk and rock

Books: The Wind-Up Girl, A Scanner Darkly

TV shows/Movies: A Scanner Darkly, Fight Club, Top Gear UK, NHL Hockey

Instrument: I play guitar, but not well.

Do you like sports?: Yes and no. I like the sports but not the camaraderie

Family: Dog (Nut), Cat (Bastard), Auntie (passed away), mother, father, step mother, brother, step brother,

Clothing: Jeans, unbranded fractal or geometric well fit tshirt, or band tshirt

How did you find this website?: Google

Job: Golf Course Maintenance. I mostly mow greens on two different 18 hole courses.

Future Plans: Find a career where I can work contently to live happily and independently.

What is your first name? My first name is Micah, but you can cal me "Kristian". That's what I go by.

Age: 20 (21 in 2 weeks).

Location: Orem, UT.

Hobbies and Interests: Music (playing and listening), film, furry fandom, web development, philosophy.

Why are you here? I have 20 years of experience with Asperger's behind me. I have overcome a lot of challenges and become very well composed. I think I have a lot of advice to give to struggling young "aspies".

When were you diagnosed?: Probably around 8. I don't remember.

Favorite subjects: English, Philosophy, Web, Art History.

Year/Grade: Junior in college.

Favorite music: Radiohead, The Smiths, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joy Division, The Beatles, The Kinks.

Books: Les Miserables, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, Flowers for Algernon.

TV shows/Movies: Any movies by Wes Anderson (especially The Royal Tenenbaums), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Arrested Development, Doctor Who, Firefly, 30 Rock, Community.

Instrument: Guitar, ukulele, piano, synth, LSDJ.

Do you like sports? Sure! I enjoy watching American football and soccer. I don't play them very often.

Family: I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters. My biological mother died when I was young, but my father got remaried to a wonderful woman. I have been slightly distant from my family since I left their church.

Clothing: T-shirts and jeans. I buy lots of t-shirts from Threadless. I like quirky, well-designed shirts. I wear a checkerboard bandanna around my neck.

How did you find this website? A friend recommended it to me.

Job: I clean up other people's filth at a movie theater. With any luck, I'll be a web dev soon.

Plans for the future? Become a web dev. Move to the coast. Ride dolphins. Become king of the dolphins. Decide that dolphins are kind of boring. Go back to being a web dev on the coast.

What is your first name? Rorbery

Age: 24

Location: MD, USA

Hobbies and Interests: Music appreciation (mostly progressive rock, extreme metal, various forms of jazz, and the Mountain Goats). Video games (handheld and retro games pretty much exclusively). Reading when I find something that holds my attention. Writing when I feel adventurous. Occasionally dabble in playing keyboards. Internet addiction.

Why are you here? To get some answers and find people who I can identify with.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Not yet but working towards finding some answers

Favorite subjects: In school? It was probably history and occasionally English

Year/Grade: Is this asking my favorite, or what grade I'm in? I graduated high school (barely) but I didn't care much for school in general

Favorite music: See above. The Mountain Goats, Death, and Ween are my top 3 favorite bands.

Books: Anything by Vonnegut or Neal Stephenson

TV shows/Movies: Doctor Who/Sherlock. Various anime (currently Casshern Sins). Not really into movies but I'll watch them with people occasionally, not really picky about that.

Instrument: Keyboards

Do you like sports? Not at all

Family: do I like family? do I have family? Not sure how this is supposed to be worded. i currently live with my family yes.

Clothing: if I could get away with it, I'd wear jeans and a t shirt for every occasion. I prefer a gender-neutral appearance generally. I hate wearing male-centric or female centric attire. I also have a ski-cap I wear during all seasons.

How did you find this website? Overheard people talking about it long ago and thought I'd check it out

Job: Not currently.

Plans for the future? Ideally? Get on disability, get out on my own, eat peanut butter sammiches all day and do something creative/productive with my free time

Any comments? Hail Satan!

What is your first name? BlackDwarf

Age: 24

Location: Somewhere.

Hobbies and Interests: Guitar playing and music making (7 years), gaming, drawing both digital works and traditional works, mostly sketching though, science and astronomy, mathematics, accountancy, gym and general fitness.

Why are you here? Curiosity.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Not yet but working towards finding some answers

Favorite subjects: I.T., science, maths.

Year/Grade: Graduated from uni about 3 months ago with a 2:2 in Multimedia and Internet Technology. Currently doing AAT level 2 and 3.

Favorite music: Instrumental metal, neo-classical metal, orchestral, ambient and synth, 80s rock and metal.

Books: Anything by Vonnegut or Neal Stephenson

TV shows/Movies: Walking dead, British sitcoms from the 80s-90s era. As far as films go there are too many to list, but basically anything which grabs my interest, good dramas and unusual sci-fi mainly.

Instrument: Guitar.

Do you like sports? Meh.

Family: ....well I have family. what's the question?

Clothing: Jeans, t-shirt and my favourite and only jacket.

How did you find this website? Brother told me about it.

Job: Part time shelf-stacker to pay the bills, but currently searching a job in finance with the intention of one day working in accounting management, hence the AAT level 2 and 3.

Plans for the future? Get a career, get my own place, enjoy life.

Any comments? No.

What is your first name? Megan

Age: 24

Location: USA

Hobbies and Interests: science, animals, nature, outer space, playing music, painting, crafts, astronomy, vegetarianism, video games, reading, writing, tie dye, etc etc etc

Why are you here? communicating with like-minded individuals isn't something I get to do often in real life

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I'm diagnosed OCD, but an autism spectrum disorder has never been discussed. I've just been considered, shy, gifted, and anxious.

Favorite subjects: SCIENCE!

Year/Grade: soph in college

Favorite music: Animal Collective <3, basically anything interesting sounding, happy music

Books: Catcher in the Rye, Oh, The Places You Will Go!, My Ishmael, E.E. Cummings poems

TV shows/Movies: Planet Earth, Cosmos, Hayao Miyazaki movies! Fantasia, ODDSAC, The Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story

Instrument: guitar, tambourine, keyboard, xylophone. I would love to play the pan flute

Do you like sports? hoopdancing!

Family: <3

Clothing: whatever's comfy. I also prefer to color my own shirts/tie dye, and wear silly hats or hair accessories

How did you find this website? google

Job: lab assistant at my college to all of the biology instructors, and very part time at a private postal and shipping center just so I can recycle their discarded magazines (I average about 300 a week!!)

Plans for the future? become a wildlife biologist/animal conservationist/environmental scientist

Any comments? life is awesome!

What is your first name? Lumi (in the Finnish language, it means 'snow')

Age: 21

Location: Somewhere

Hobbies and Interests: Reading about the Autism spectrum and other special needs (started mostly when I was 15, listening to my favorite music, online gaming, online art, writing about my life with Asperger Syndrome online, learn the Finnish language, and sometimes writing poetry

Why are you here? This forum has people, experiences, and voices I can resonate with for the first time, and learn from. After I decided I want to learn more from others with ASD's to retain my mentality of who I am and what autism is more accurately.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): 16, by a psychiatrist who specialized in types of autism and knew autism symptoms in females. Understanding how differently I learned (previously compared to non-autistics) and why I was miserable more and more was rather difficult to cope with until I was diagnosed, found out more about Asperger after that and what most symptoms mean for me as an adult. Autism became really special for me way more now in this time of my life than ever before...

Favorite subjects: none, maybe art

Year/Grade: High school graduate

Favorite music: Christian rock, Finnish rock, instrumental soundtracks, psytrance

Books: Aspergirls, Naruto, In the Grip of Grace

TV shows/Movies: X-Men Evolution, Beyblade Metal Fight, Johnny Test, Young Justice/ X-Men, Lord of the Rings, Tarzan

Instrument: Wish I could teach myself the acoustic guitar

Do you like sports: Not really

Family: Mom, cat, church family

Clothing: jeans, comfortable t-shirt or tank

How did I find this website: Google

Job: Not yet able to work, but having occupational therapy and I love it there!

Future Plans: Learn to improve my communication, help others with autism (in person, not sure what specifically yet), visit Finland and learn enough Finnish to be my second language, gain independence and much needed skills

What is your first name? Si
Age: 30
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Hobbies and Interests: Music writing and production, urban exploration, photography, physics theory.
Why are you here? To try to understand my (very likely) AS.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Self-diagnosed this month. Looking into official diagnosis for adults.
Favorite subjects: At school I enjoyed computing mainly.
Year/Grade: I dropped out of Uni half-way through as BSc.
Favorite music: System of A Down, Nirvana, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails
Books: The Wasp Factory, 1984, Born On a Blue Day, The Raw Shark Texts.
TV shows/Movies: The Crow, The Newsroom, Fight Club, Red Dwarf
Instrument: Guitar, Bass, Drums
Do you like sports? No
Family: Just married. Have 2 siblings but felt very distant from them for as long as I can recall.
Clothing: Baggy jeans and t-shirts usually. I apparently have no sense of what does and does not go so am frequently told by my wife that I might want to rethink my combo.
How did you find this website? Good ol' Google
Job: Solution Developer (write software and develop databases)
Plans for the future? Just to make sure things go alright with my marrige and my job really. Since discovering I have AS I suddenly realise how lucky I am to have found both.
Any comments?

Already done this before, but why not do it again for the new crowd.

What is your first name? Alexander, but I go by Sasha.

Age: 21

Location: Northern New York. I divide my time between the Catskills, New York City and NNY.

Hobbies and Interests: Graphic design, building and fixing computers, writing (I'm working on a book series about the life of an outgoing girl with autism who is a high school/college cheerleader), train and flight simulation, transportation, history, politics, etc. And autism.

Why are you here? Because of the like-minded people here. And to find auties and aspies like me, the ones who are outgoing but are social klutzes. And a gazillion other reasons I'm unsure of.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Unofficially in 2003 and again in 2005. Officially in the fall of 2008.

Favorite subjects: History, political science, speech communication (the study of human communication)

Year/Grade: Graduated from SUNY Potsdam in August of this year (walked in May and took a summer class). Feel free to look up the school. And no, I was not a music major.

Favorite music: Classic rock, anything except for rap and country and contemporary Christian music (because for some reason the two just don't go together).

Books: The classics. A lot of pre-revolutionary Russian literature. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgnev, Chekov. Biographies I like too. Political satire, memoirs, etc. As long as it hasn't been marketed (a la Hunger Games), I'm good.

TV shows/Movies: South Park, 2 Broke Girls, 1,000 Ways to Die, Absolutely Fabulous

Instrument: None

Do you like sports? Hockey, soccer, tennis. I'm a New York Mets fan by association, but I do root for the Yanks on rare occasion. I can't play though. Just not athletic enough. But I

Family: Mother, stepfather, two younger half brother (older one is 13, younger is 12), younger stepbrother (who is 16). My stepdad works and lives in the city and comes home often. My older stepbrother and younger full brother have moved out already. And I have a boatload of relatives on both sides of the Atlantic.

Clothing: Graphic tees, polos, jeans during the winter (if it's below 45F or 7C, if above I wear shorts, but I don't do jeans above 65F).

How did you find this website? I found this place four years ago, obviously I forget how I came across WP.

Job: Still looking. Maybe something temporary until I fully relocate back downstate.

Plans for the future? Get hitched, have no more than three kids and run for lieutenant governor of New York. As far as I know, there has never been an elected public official on the autism spectrum. I would like to change that.

Any comments? The autism community is one that is pretty far from judgmental and is pretty accepting. I guess it's because it's a melting pot in itself. I am an enigma.

Ha, I can certainly relate to the outgoing social kluts thing. After being such an outsider through school and 6th form, I went to a university where I could make a fresh start. Nobody knew me so I sort of created a bit of an alter-ego. A mega-confident rocker/punk type with the leather jacket and the mohawk and the facial piercings. Joined the Rock Music Society there were friendships were much easier to form as you knew everyone shared interests. Turns out that walking around a busy town looking like that, people actually avoid making eye contact - Bonus! It's a mask i wear to this day and helps me a lot in social situations - I feel like people focus on all this window-dressing and less on any social quirks I have.

Only just fully understanding now that this is part of why I choose to look like that.