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19 Sep 2005, 7:38 am

A few years after my diagnoses of AS I realised that one of my friends was AS as was his sister. A few years went past and I made another friend who had traits but not lots so I though I was just being paranoid then I met his sister and OMG she was with out a doubt AS. Then last weekend I was talking to one of my younger friends about her childhood and every thing she was saying matched and she took an online test for it and scored higher then I had. Them my house mate said that what we had bean talking about sounded just like her mother (who also lives in the house) who is friend with people from the live journal AS group and they and told her a wile ago that she should join the group whether she had it or not cos she had so many of its traits. She also said that she had bean surprised not to find me at all strange in any way when I moved in. I must admit I was surprised at the speed in witch I relax after I moved in hear. Anyway my point is do we attract each other what do u think


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19 Sep 2005, 10:45 am

I tend to attrack people who are not followers of the norm but who are not neccessarily AS. So, to answer your question, Yes it's highly likely.



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19 Sep 2005, 9:09 pm

All my friends are weird in some way, it seems; though not nessessarily Aspies.

I wouldn't have it any other way.



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19 Sep 2005, 9:56 pm

The only person I suspect is an Aspie (besides members of my family) is my ex-boyfriend. Athough he's very outgoing, he's just plain different, doesn't care about what he wears, material things, joining the "rat race" or acting like everyone else. Me and him would do all kinds of things that made other folks stare at us like playing hide and seek in a Wal-mart or making bear sounds to each other since I always called him my "teddy bear". Or we would speak in "squirrel" like in the movie "The Emperor's New Groove" going, "Squeak, squeak, squeakity-squeak squeakin!" to each other. :lol:

He was also prone to obsessions like collecting CDs, about 800 of them, religion........and his ex-"girlfriend". :evil: My other friends are different but rather NT, although a neurotic NT. My newest girlfriend is a vegetarian, free-spirit who's bilingual, into alternative ways of thinking, loves exotic foods and spent six months in Brazil just for the adventure. She's one of the few people I've ever met who don't make decisions based on what everyone else would think of them and also the only person I've told I had Asperger's.


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19 Sep 2005, 10:20 pm

nirrti_rachelle wrote:
The only person I suspect is an Aspie (besides members of my family) is my ex-boyfriend. Athough he's very outgoing, he's just plain different, doesn't care about what he wears, material things, joining the "rat race" or acting like everyone else. Me and him would do all kinds of things that made other folks stare at us like playing hide and seek in a Wal-mart or making bear sounds to each other since I always called him my "teddy bear". Or we would speak in "squirrel" like in the movie "The Emperor's New Groove" going, "Squeak, squeak, squeakity-squeak squeakin!" to each other. :lol:

He was also prone to obsessions like collecting CDs, about 800 of them, religion........and his ex-"girlfriend". :evil:


Hmmm...I wouldn't rule out him being an Aspie, but lots of people in my college enjoy similar things and they don't strike me as having AS traits at all.

As for me...I also tend to attract people who are more open-minded and like to talk to people who don't fit the norm (although I even scare off some of those people), or just people who like *cough*nice people*cough*. There are a few people who really seem to value me as a friend, but a lot more that think I'm creepy. So yeah.



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19 Sep 2005, 10:21 pm

I don't attract aspies... I attract talkative, aggressive, outgoing NT's. I guess they think I'm a good listener. The problem with putting me and another quiet person in a room together is that nothing will happen. Neither of us will have the initiative or inclination to start a friendship, so we drift away from each other.