From my point of view, this is absolutely hilarious

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So I was talking on MSN to my girlfriend tonight, and it was the usual "I love you", "I love you too" hugs-and-kisses kind of banter, until for some unexplanable reason the subject shifted to my girlfriend's trouble with math. She began telling me that she was diagnosed with Non-verbal Learning Disorder, and for that reason she is pretty much dyscalcic. (Dyscalculia is like dyslexia, only for mathematical formulas, etc.). I went along with the conversation, telling her that she may not be good at math, but shes good at other things, etc. ANYWAYS, during the conversation she mentioned that NLD is kind of like Aspergers. Now here's the funny part. I have never told her that I have Aspergers. She knows I'm a nerd but she loves me anyways; however, I have never told her that I was actually an Aspie before. So, when she brought up the subject, it naturally piqued my curiousity. I asked her "What do you know about Aspergers?" just trying to see if she actually knew what it was, or had just heard the term somwhere. She told me she knew a lot about it, because her brother was an Aspie.

Now this girl and I have been going steady for about two months now, and we had known each other as friends for about half a year beforehand. Never once has the subject of Aspergers been broached between us. And now she's telling me her brother is an Aspie. I was so thoroughly astounded at the sheer improbability of this situation that I started to laugh uncontrollably, then typed on MSN "well this is amusing." She asked me what was amusing, and I told her that me and her brother had something in common. When she asked me if I was an aspie, i replied "bullseye." Her response was "HOLY s**t THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE!" I told her that I had kept it a secret because I was afraid she'd judge me on it. She replied "Anyone who judges you based on that is a total a**hole."

And I thought it wasn't possible for me to love this girl any more than I already did... Dear God this is just too much...

Sugoi kakoii! Oh, man! What a trip! You mentioned in other posts back that you were dating for a while, but I always thought you had told her about it! That must have been mind-blowing.

Well, I guess you won't have to worry about that becoming an issue anymore. Must be quite a load off! I'm happy for you.

-- Vip

Oooo la la. Now that's romantic

Seriously, looks like you've found a friend.

Melikes. Very much!

Wow, talk about a match made in heaven!

They say like attracts like. I bet if you take a deep look at your past friendships, relationships, neighbors, etc, you will find that they are/were more like you than you think.

If only i could get along with other aspies I'd probably be dating one by now.

Makes sense -- Women date their fathers (not literally), men date their mothers (same caveat), and my sisters seem to like guys who look like me. We go for the familiar -- though not all of us. I only date outside of my race, and people who don't look like me. It's like most of us are programmed to go for the familiar, and then for some of us, a gene flicked on that said "Hey, better diversify" and then we go for everything but.

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."

wow... thats like out of an aspie storybook

very romantic!

It's nice to hear something good.

This is great, I'm happy that you have a girlfriend who seems to be unphased by the fact that you have AS, she likes you because you are you, that's sweet.

Now the only problem ahead of us is how we are going to get enough money for either me to fly down there or here to travel up here. We were aiming to get together over fall break, but that would require at least a thousand dollars for travel expenses, factoring in airfare, hotel room, and other necessities. Still, if there's a will, there's a way.

Good for you man. I'm happy for you.