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I also live in the DC Metro Area! Have you been to the DC asperger meetings?

What is your first name? Not telling, just call me by my nick.

Age: 16

Location: Finland

Hobbies and Interests: Music, Games (especially Final fantasy and Sonic series), Chatting/posting on forums, Computers and of course girls .

Why are you here?: Just thought that it´d be interesting to talk to other aspies.

When were you diagnosed?: Early, I think when I was 7 years old.

Favorite subjects: Games, music.

Year/Grade: 16/8th (On finnish school system)

Favorite music: Mostly rock. Favourite bands include: Velvet revolver, Guns n roses and Coldplay. Nobuo Uematsu also makes cool VG music.

Books: Not really into them.

TV shows/Movies: The simpsons, Late night with Conan o brien, CSI and Ota tai jätä! (A finnish show)

Instrument: I don´t really play any but I love the sound of guitars.

Do you like sports?: NO NO AND NO!

Family: Mom, Step dad, a dog (Wilma) and a big bro who has already moved away.

Clothing: Mostly black.

How did you find this website?: Accidentally through Wikipedia.

Job: Still in school.

Plans for the future?: Still quite open.

Any comments?: Can´t think of any.

Are you making fun of me? Because I can assure you, NO ONE said I was clever for quite some time after that.

I tried to conform, but the entire classroom and dorm environment gave me a bit of a breakdown. I was homebound through some of high school for the same reason.

I did get a certificate online in Library Science, which was difficult, but I managed.

I'm going to the Teaism meeting this Sunday for the first time! It's for the Asperger Adults of Greater Washington...I'm really worried about going into the place and not being able to find anyone though. Here is my impression of me: "Um..eh hem, excuse me, do YOU have autism? No, sorry, sorry...how about YOU?"

Will you be there?

What is your first name? Daniel

Age: 18

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Hobbies and Interests: Games and Music

Why are you here?: To meet other aspies, to share my experiences with them and hear some of their own

When were you diagnosed?: Apparantly when I was 3 years old

Favorite subjects: English/Writing and Music

Year/Grade: University, 2nd year

Favorite music: Nightwish, Metallica, Rammstien, Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus, System of a Down...mainly alternative rock and metal, but as long as the music's good I'll listen!

Books: I don't really read

TV shows/Movies: Family Guy, Scrubs, Lost, Heroes, Pirates of the Carribean, The Matrix (1 and 2), Star Wars (eps 3-6), Team America, Borat (Very nice!)...more that I probably can't think of right now

Instrument: Trumpet and guitar

Do you like sports?: I've recently been taking an interest in the NRL, but prior to that no

Family: Yes, living with my parents and brother

Clothing: T-shirts and worn-out jeans suit me fine

How did you find this website?: While researching on AS

Job: None atm

Plans for the future?: Finish uni, see where I go from there...long term goal is to become a composer

Any comments?: I'LL COMMENT YOU!! !

...yeah, I'll be quiet now

What is your first name? Ghazal

Age: 14.5

Location: Iran

Hobbies and Interests: I've always loved things related to the computer and science (mostly biology and physics). I've also been obsessed with some Square-Enix games for two years.

Why are you here? So that I can meet people who think in ways similar to me.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I self-diagnosed myself after a lot of online reading and a few tests.

Favorite subjects: Science, art and English

Year/Grade: 3rd grade secondary school/8th grade total.

Favorite music: Mostly rock and pop. I like artists such as Madonna, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Shakira, Moby and Hilary Duff and bands such as The Rasmus, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Green Day, Simple Plan, Hawthorne Heights and Eurythmics.

Books: Mostly fantasy books... I like the artists: JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, CS Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain and William Shakespeare along with some books such as Peter Pan and dictionaries.

TV shows/Movies: I don't watch TV a lot but I love the Scooby-Doo series. My favourite movies are Scooby-Doo, the Matrix 1, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Little Vampire, the Casper movies, Pirates of the Carribean and Spy Kids.

Instrument: Used to go to piano classes but I left (it was hard concentrating on both of your hands), now I go to a guitar class and I am fairly well if I don't know anyone is listening.

Do you like sports? I hate watching them, but I love to play some... such as ping-pong and volleyball.

Family: Mother, father, elder half brother.

Clothing: I like stuff with buttons/zippers... and I like to wear mostly black, blue, green or purple sets. I hate girly clothes such as skirts, tights, dresses and sleeveless clothes, though... so they're never part of my sets.

How did you find this website? Was searching on Google.

Job: Student...

Plans for the future? Yes I wanna become a scientist and research on a lot of stuff and possibly discover/invent some.

Any comments?

What is your first name? not important

Age: 23

Location: Portugal

Hobbies and Interests: computers, playing guitar and reading

Why are you here? i suspect i have AS

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

Favorite subjects: music, science, history...

Year/Grade: in college

Favorite music: Joe Satriani - Starry Night

Books: all that Carl Sagan wrote and others...

TV shows/Movies: simpsons, family guy, fear and loathing in las vegas, star wars, godfather, etc.

Instrument: guitar

Do you like sports? i like football (allthough i watch it more than i play it), table tennis and motor sports

Family: kind of, since my father died and my sister left home it's not much of a family on the proper sense. i don't live at home since i entered college

Clothing: lol, whatever

How did you find this website? after reading about AS on google

Job: student

Plans for the future? get a life

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What is your first name?
Jake

Age:
21

Location:
England - North West

Hobbies and Interests:
Mathematics, Reading, Movies, Music

Why are you here?
To make friends and join in with the discussion

Favorite subjects:
Mathematics.

Favorite music:
Jazz(particularly Bebop), Fusion, Romantic Period, Impressionist (mainly Debussy and Ravel), 20th Century (esp. Penderecki and Ligeti), Film Score (e.g. Howard Shore), Rock (esp. prog), Metal(esp. Symphonic, Melodic, Prog), some 80's pop; pretty much everything really.

Books:
I'll read anything but have been very much enjoying the 'Jeeves' books by PG Wodehouse recently. I also enjoyed the 'Angela's Ashes' books by Frank McCourt

TV shows/Movies:
Taxi Driver, Godfather, A Beautiful Mind, LOTR trilogy

Instrument:
Piano and Electric Guitar

Do you like sports?
I used to enjoy circuit training and running but I don't do much of either nowadays.

Clothing:
Pretty standard; jeans, shirts, t-shirts, jumpers etc.

How did you find this website?
Was searching AS on youtube and found a video that was linked from this site.

Job:
I am a university student at the moment but I've had plenty of jobs in the past; fast food places, warehouse, clerical, call centres, insurance companies.

Plans for the future?
Progress well with my studies, make some friends; enjoy life.

What is your first name?

Kevin

Age:

25

Location:

Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Hobbies and Interests:

Music, writing, history, reading, film.

Why are you here?

I found a place where I can relate.



Favorite subjects:

When I was at school? English and Art.

Favorite music:

Rock. I like almost all music very much, but Alternative Rock is where my heart's at.

Books:

Blinking with fists, The Troy Game series, The Dirt, Reaper Man and anything by Anne Rice.

TV shows/Movies:

Family Guy, Lost, Family Guy, The Glass House, Family Guy.

Instrument:

Guitar, Bass Guitar, Violin, Cello, Piano, Berimbau, Synths, Mandolin, Vocals.

Do you like sports?

Nope. Don't mind watching Rugby every once in a while for big games, or Tennis for the Australian Open, but that's about it.

Clothing:

Ummm, I keep pretty up to date with fashion (thanks to the Italian ex-girlfriend for that), but I like my jeans, t-shirts and jackets so I try to work within that.

How did you find this website?

Directed here by Callista from HealthBoards.com

Job:

I make a bit of money out of music but my day job is sorting out Telecommunications Infrastructure Problems.

Plans for the future?

Until recently I would have said "Rock Star" immediately, but the recent discovery of my aspergers has me re-assessing a few things, so I'm not sure just now.

What is your first name?
Soph

Age:
18

Location:
Manchester, UK

Hobbies and Interests:
History, animals (mainly cats) and politics

Why are you here?
I have Aspergers

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
January 07

Favorite subjects:
History

Family:
Mum, step-dad, 2 younger brothers

Clothing:
Usually black pants and shirt

How did you find this website?
Google or something I think

Job:
Student

Plans for the future?
Finish university, but I don't know what after that

What is your first name? Benji

Age: 19

Location: East London

Hobbies and Interests: Internet, reading, watching films, listening to music, playing drums...

Why are you here? Because I'm awaiting an Asperger's dx, and since having a laptop and not having to share the internet with my brother I have more internet time and less things to do on the internet.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): N/A yet.

Favorite subjects: English Lit, Media, Biology, Drama, Art, History...

Year/Grade: I'm in my second year of university. It's extremely hard, and I have failed every single module involving group work so far. It's also upped my anxiety level so I'm going around in circles.

Favorite music: I guess I listen to punk, blues and jazz most often but I like lots of different music.

Books: Can't choose a favourite book. I love reading. I prefer fiction which is apparently not very aspie. I just find that a lot of factual books are difficult for me as I have little concept of time and find it hard to seperate revelvant events and random dates hard to remember. I like most aspects of fantasy.

TV shows/Movies: At the moment I'm really loving Pan's Labyrinth, but I like a lot of films, and a fair few TV shows.

Instrument: Drums. I play a little guitar, a little bass, a little tin whistle, a little recorder. I'm also teaching myself harmonica (blues harp to be precise) and I'd like to play sax.

Do you like sports? No. Although I did do karate, go swimming, go horseriding and played basketball for a bit when I was younger. I'm too passive for my own good.

Family: I live with my mum, dad and younger (but taller) brother. I also have a half sister who doesn't live with us. My mum's the youngest of ten so we have a large family. My pets count as family too. I have a dog, two rats, rabbit, snake and a pond full of goldfish.

Clothing: I tend to look like I've falling into a wardrobe and clamoured out accidentally dressed... that's how my dad put it once and it stuck. I wear a lot of alternative clothes, but mainly it's about comfort. I guess I look kind of 'quirky'. I tend to only wear DMs and cons as footwear because most other kinds hurt my feet.

How did you find this website? Google ages ago, and also a few people from Gestalt use it.

Job: I'm a sales assistant. I only work four hours on a Saturday morning and it takes the rest of the day for me to recover. I have the bad luck of being on the till.

Plans for the future? I'd like to make some independant films, and I'd also like to be a body piercer (although it's a job that involved some level of socialising it would be mostly on my terms and I'd be able to do the job without being interrupted, unlike my current job - I also can't think of many jobs I could do that don't involve being stuck in an office. I don't have the attention span or organisation skills for anything involving office work). I'd also like to write a book or two.

Any comments? I think I've gone on quite enough for now.

What is your first name? Creig

Age: over 50

Location: San Francisco

Hobbies and Interests: Alpine skiing, computer software, photography

Why are you here? Not really sure -- curious, I guess, or maybe so I won't feel like I'm the only one, but I already knew that, in a theoretical sort of way. At my age, hardly expect, or need, to make friends. (No offense meant, just that huge age differences don't make for compatibility, and I've got enough friends to handle for now.)

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Not. But many of the characteristics sound very familiar. But not sure. Does everyone with past difficulty making friends and interested in math/science have AS? Probably not, but some of the other stuff sort of fits too.

Favorite subjects: Huh? Do you mean back when I went to school? Of course, math, science, engineering, computer science.

Year/Grade: Finished MS EE degree in the 3rd quarter of the last century.

Favorite music: Whatever. Hate pop, country, rap, opera. I could make a list, but it changes. Don't like the same thing over and over.

Books: Technical stuff.

TV shows/Movies: News, Science, technical stuff. Oh, I did like "6 Feet Under", "Dead Like Me", "Queer as Folk"(American-Canadian version) and "Huff" when they were on a few years ago. "Noah's Arc" was good last year. There isn't anything that I like right now.

Instrument: Huh? Not since grade school. Been known to plink around experimentally on a keyboard on rare occasions but don't know how to play at all. Takes to much time to learn.

Do you like sports? Hate anything competetive (brings back horrible memories of school), and I am bored with spectating most sports, but I love to ski, and am very good at it (as long as I stay far away from other skiers/riders so I don't bump into them). So I AM coordinated after all, in spite of the experience in school! Besides that, I've taken up bicycling again. Used to swim too, but not lately, and not very good at it. Gave up running to save the knees.

Family: Live with my partner. Everyone else in my own family is far away. Do have a couple friends and lots of acquaintances, though.

Clothing: Sometimes. Oh... nice soft fleece, or if I must go out, jeans or something more formal like khaki, or g*d forbid, something synthetic -- I hate anything that I cannot wash at home. Whatever.

How did you find this website? TV news --> Google (even corrected my spelling) --> Wikipedia --> here

Job: Sort of. Tele-consulting with a company 1000 miles away on computer software.

Plans for the future? Future? Hmmmph. Just trundling along with what I'm doing, keeping my head above water, until something better comes along.

Any comments? A nephew was diagnosed with Attention Deficit and was told it runs in families. Not sure if that's related to anything I've experienced, but my mind did wander a lot in school. I thought the difficulty with sports was explained because I had a physical condition that kept me from being active until 4th grade (2 years of home schooling as an invalid in almost complete isolation, and 2 years at public school with severely restricted physical activity), and so the other kids had 4 years of physical and social development over me, and teased me mercilessly. Because of the embarassment, I avoided any sports, so I never caught up with them until college age when I realized I better get into shape if I want to live a long life. Then I discovered skiing, and found out I wasn't so bad athletically after all. I blamed my parents for not making any effort to put me through physical therapy so I could catch up with the other kids and be as good as them. Would have needed some kind of social therapy too. Maybe they thought in a year or so, I would automatically catch up with the other kids my age so never mind spending money on extra therapy, but that wasn't happening. So I blamed all that.

But other stuff about AS fits too, so I don't know who/what to blame now. Everyone just thought I was kind of odd, but harmless, and nobody suspected anything like AS or did anything about it, and I didn't know any better either.

Later on I put myself through years of therapy to deal with social problems, and it helped a little. It doesn't matter now, I'm sort of contented, but went through hell when I was young.

Why is this called "Wrong" Planet? Wouldn't "Different" Planet be more generous?

At least "Different Planet" how I've felt. But as a gay person, I doubly felt I'm from a "different" planet, meaning in the gay community, I felt a little bit more at home, but not quite there yet. With strangers, it's always "why don't you say anything ... (does it mean you dislike me)?" or if I do say something, I sometimes manage to find the very worst thing to say without realizing it until after it's come out of my mouth. I guess that does sound a lot like AS, but I'm not sure the cause of it is the same as the "typical" case. But given (from Wikipedia, at least) nobody knows what causes it (or if there is a single cause), maybe it doesn't matter if the cause of my condition was different from others, or started at a slightly later age. Then again, maybe the causes I am aware of just compounded an AS condition that I already had but nobody knew I had. How could anyone tell now?

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What is your first name?

Andrew

Age:

21

Location:

Umatilla, Florida, U.S.A.

Hobbies and Interests:

Expansive and bewildering. Sounds cooler than the normal string of "Music, Films, Literature, Computers, blah blah blah."

Why are you here?

Fear, inability to understand, curiosity, deep seated feelings that I need to Belong somewhere. Blah blah blah.

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

Have not been yet, and may not be. For all I know this is something unrelated and I don't belong here. Of course that could just be my self destructive tendencies trying to prevent any sort of healing or repair etc etc etc. According to friends and relatives I fit to a tee. My intention is that when I get financially stable I will seek a legitimate diagnosis... or I could bum money off the aunt that first suspected it. I'd feel bad about that because it would be a long time until I could pay here back. The old man always told me that debt is bad, so I take debts very seriously, both ways. EDIT: However, I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 5.

Favorite subjects:

Ah.... school. English and Psychology.

Favorite music:

A respect and love for all forms of music... But I prefer Blues, Metal, Modern Rock, Movie Soundtracks... that sort of thing.

Books:

William King, Science Fiction, that kind of stuff.

TV shows/Movies:

House, Heroes, Star Wars, Star Trek(I LOVE THEM BOTH DAMNIT! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE ME!) Thats about it. The rest of is just utter crap that I despise.

Instrument:

Bass Guitar. One that I never play despite a birthright of potential. (The men in my family have an oddly natural affinity for music.)

Do you like sports?

HOCKEY?!

Clothing:

Hawaiian shirts, short sleeve buttondowns. Jeans, Sandals, shorts, a baseball cap and a nice leather cap that was a gift from my best friend in highschool.

How did you find this website?

Found a link on Wikipedia.org.

Job:

Unemployed, but oddly for a potential aspie, all of my work experiance is in customer service.(It's bizarre, I can communicate in a professional sense, but as soon as it gets recreational, I literally transform into a gibbering inept mass.)

Plans for the future?

I've always had a love for both Journalism and Medicine. I'm actually considering becoming a Nurse... or a journalist... Or hell Both. Just as soon as I can stand to talk on the phone for more than a couple minutes and stop fearing the open road.

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first post! hi!

What is your first name? Shannon

Age: 14...

Location: Hummelstown...teeny tiny little town

Hobbies and Interests:
Music
Art
Writing
Coding (i'm a n00b though)
Meeting new people
Movies
Reading
History

Why are you here? To chat, make friends, maybe learn a thing or two

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): At age 12. I also have been diagnosed as ADHD, manic depressive, OCD, and a mirade of others. Also, I'm a recovering Trichy (Trichtillomania--means I pull out my hair as a way of "realeasing tension, similar to Terets")

Year/Grade: 8th, but I got kicked out

Favorite music: oi!, punk, ska, nowave, reggae, thrash, rock n roll, anything that sounds good.

Books: All time favorites are Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, the Stranger by Albert Camus, and The Commitments by Roddy Doyle.

TV shows/Movies: I love movies. No TV though. Right now I'm going through a horror phase.

Instrument: Drums, learning bass.

Do you like sports? Mainly soccer.

Family: Parents are divorced, but live together as roommates.

Clothing: Skinhead/punk. And no, not all skinheads are racist. PLEASE don't flame me about how I'm a stupid nazi. Do some research.

How did you find this website? Word of mouth.

Job: None, but I hope to get a job at Rita's Italian Ice soon...heh...

Plans for the future? Write; go to London, Dublin, Cardiff; make music; etc etc etc

Any comments? Nahhhh.

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What is your first name? Jennifer

Age: 17

Location: Ohio

Hobbies and Interests: TV, internet, music, aliens, computers

Why are you here? I don't know

When were you diagnosed? I've never been officially diagnosed. It doesn't seem like that would accomplish much anyway...

Favorite subjects: English, anything with computers

Year/Grade: class of 2008 - 11th grade

Favorite music: depends. mostly rock.

Books: science fiction, fantasy

TV shows/Movies: Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Star Trek

Instrument: flute

Do you like sports? ew. no

Family: mom, dad, brother

Clothing: whatever I feel like wearing that particular day. Usually a horrible combination of hippy and gothic-y clothes. haha. I especially like long skirts.

How did you find this website? Google

Job: nothing

Plans for the future? finish high school and college, and figure something out from there.

Any comments? not that I can think of...

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