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'Plan B' would probably be living with my parents for the rest of my/their lives and feeling like a failure. That's more likely.

Not even on the streets will you be able to escape the tyranny of alarm clocks.

Street sweepers.

Reticent: You're only 16. There is no predestination. You could accomplish things in life; you just have to have the confidence. You have brains enough to succeed--definitely!

What is your first name?
Eg, for here.

Age:
Near 40

Location:
UK

Hobbies and Interests:
Reading, research, gardening: absorbing stuff

Why are you here?
Natural Progression

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):
1998: Assessed as an adult, mature student: dyslexic, dyspraxic
Self-Assessed online Aspergers - twice; allowing for ?internal bias?heheh ? 2012
Subsequent research confirms my online assessment + was presenting with light-sensitivty/migraine & associated issues since childhood. Re-assessment for Aspergers/Autism pending.

Favorite subjects:
Philosophy

Year/Grade:
BA Hons Phil

Favorite music:
All types except Thrash Metal

Books:
Novels: Margeret Attwood, Fay Weldon, Iain Banks.
Poetry
Non-fiction, relevant to current interests.

TV shows/Movies:
Some, on catch up tv: Comedy, mainly. Documentaries.

Instrument:
I like percussion but not tried much.

Do you like sports?
Horse riding.Have bungee jumped.

Family:
?It's complicated?

Clothing:
Comfortable & quirky

How did you find this website?
Specific, online search.

Job:
Not currently

Plans for the future?
Currently unclear. I did volunteer Literacy assisting before & that felt valuable.

Any comments?
I am glad to have located this site & to read other people's experiences. I have been isolated in my autism although others in my family are affected.

What is your first name? Rhikter

Age: 19

Location: Ridgecrest California, but I'm moving to Oregon next year

Hobbies and Interests: studying film, writing stories, painting and designing and drawing, basically I like creating. And taking notes of concepts of other people's creations for me to utilize in my own creations. I also love researching about different sorts of neurology studies and other related sciences as well as all affects and effects of the supernatural.

Why are you here? I have Asperger's syndrome and I want to meet others like me. I've only ever met one other person with Aspergers. I want to meet others and have a sense of community to go to so I don't feel so alone. Where I don't have to try so hard at conforming to standards I don't understand to appease others. I guess what I'm really saying is I'm tired mentally and emotionally and I'm looking for acceptance and hope.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): according to my relatives, I was diagnosed in kindergarten but as it turns out it was an informal diagnoses. They did tests, just not all of them. My mother couldn't afford all of them. They said "she's definitely on the autism spectrum and seems to have A sort of Aspergers, but we can't be sure whether it's high functioning or not without more tests." I didn't get more tests. But I know. I know I am. I research that too. Constantly. I can't help it. It's a compulsion.

Favorite subjects: math and science. I love creative writing and the opportunity to read, but I hate English class. But math and science are wonderful. I love them and how they have this poetic marriage with each other. You can't have anything without math and nothing can be explained without math. Same with science. Without math and science we wouldn't be cabals of survival nor invention.

Year/Grade: I was a freshman at college, but I dropped out because of cruel people and some health and wellness issues the fore mentioned people were making even more unbearable. I want to go back to college. Not next year, but the year after. But I don't know whether I want to pursue arts or science. I'm caught between becoming a film producer/ clothing designer, and a career as a marine archeologist/ biologist.

Favorite music: everything. So long as it has a good beat and good lyrics that mean something more than sex. I particularly love medieval music. Particularly the upbeat instrumentals. I love dancing to them. I grew up working at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha Wisconsin so the music is the only thing that's ever really felt like home to me.

Books: again, everything. So long as I can either learn from it or be inspired by it. My favorite type of book though is a book about magic and fairies and trolls and centaurs and gods and violence and romance all in one. Like a fairytale, but a gory one that's balanced by beauty and hope and love.

TV shows/Movies: EVERYTHING.

Instrument: I used to be obsessed with the piano and I still am in a longing way, but I haven't been able to play in years. I also know how to play the harp and wish I had one and I've always loved the sounds of woodwinds like the clarinet and the obo.

Do you like sports? I like them but they don't like me. I know absolutely everything about the Yankees which is funny because baseball doesn't make my top five for favorite sports. I used to dive and do ballet and martial arts. I did martial arts for 9years. My favorite sports to watch are: Ballet, Gymnastics, Figure skating, lacrosse, and Soccer. My favorite to play are: Ballet, Diving, Soccer, Swimming, and golf.

Family: I have two cousins who don't think much of me because they find it increasingly difficult to understand me. And one more cousin who I don't get to see or ever talk to because her parents don't approve of me being FTM transgender as though it's something to be approved of and because I don't believe in their religion and believe that love is love and that genitalia and gender shouldn't have anything to do with deciding whether or not you care for someone romantically. We have differences. Those are the only blood family members I have. Everyone else has forgotten about me or hurt me so I choose to cut them out as well.

Clothing: I like being comfortable. I like earth tones and soothing pastels. I hate close fitting clothes and I absolutely despise socks!! They keep my toes restrained when they don't need to be. Every time I get home, the first thing I do is rip off my socks then run into my room to strip down and put on some sweat pants or a long skirt and an oversized shirt. I almost always need long sleeves. Even at 110 degrees. I just need to be covered head to toe. Otherwise I feel naked. And layers are important. I've been told I wear layers like armor and that might be true. I haven't overanalyzed it. I have more important things to overanalyze. And I absolutely adore pockets. They make things comfortable and secure. Safe. Idk why, they just do. I almost never go anywhere without a flannel mens shirt as a jacket or a hoodie with the hood up. I always wear a hat or hood. I have to.

How did you find this website? Through using bing.

Job: self employed.

Plans for the future? If like to be able to say my plans are to not make plans and to instead just see where life carries me, because it sounds utterly romantic and the perfect response. And for the most part that is true, but I also happen to have hopes far too important and powerful to refrain from recognizing. I want to be in love with someone who loves me and never denies it and makes it known. I want them to never cheat on me and I want to have a family with them. I want to have a job I love and that I can feel important doing. I want to make my time matter. Whether that's expressing everything inside of me through books and movies and shows and songs and clothing to make my imprint on the world, or to make my name in more modest yet totally rivetingly intense journey of marine archaeology/ biological discovery and exploration.

Any comments? I've probably talked too much.

You watch Person Of Interest? Me too. I watch it with my family although we've fallen behind. Like halfway through last season behind.

Welcome to Wrong Planet and I totally understand. I've hated jeans my whole life. I just wear sweatpants. You ever tried sweatpants before? They're really comfortable.

What is your first name?
I go by Katie (though I think my full name, Katherine, sounds way cooler)

Age:
16

Location:
California (blech! I don't like it...)

Hobbies and Interests:
Oh boy, here goes... Christianity, drawing, singing, painting, writing poems, volunteering with cats, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, Vincent van Gogh, the Romanov family of Russia (Anastasia/ Tsar Nicholas II's family), Kaiser Wilhelm II

Why are you here?
To make good, loyal friends! I have barely any that are living and non-animal XD

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): I was diagnosed with Asperger's at 7 years old by UCLA

Favorite subjects:
Art, English, History

Year/Grade:
Junior

Favorite music:
Classical, Opera

Books:
Fantasy, historical

TV shows/Movies:
Fantasy movies, murder mystery shows

Instrument:
The human voice is an instrument! I take voice lessons and am in choir. I sing soprano.

Do you like sports?
Nope. I'm neither skilled at nor interested in any.

Family:
My mom and 12-year-old brother (my father is deceased)

Clothing:
Long sleeves, gothic, purple

How did you find this website?
I think I just googled "aspergers forum"

Job:
My career plans change all the time. It varies between art therapist to Christian counselor to pastor to self-employed. I seriously have no idea...

Plans for the future?
Move to Ireland! I found this bucolic cottage in a meadow in a small town there.

Any comments?
Feel free to PM me!

What is your first name? Wesley.

Age? 18.

Location? New England.

Hobbies and Interests? As far as hobbies go, I like to play video games, read, write, listen to music, draw and waste my time looking up things relevant to my interests. My interests include music, history, sociology, literature, nostalgia, humor, architecture, classics, culture, social justice and art.

Why are you here? To relate to people who may have had the same experiences that I have. In my opinion, the desire to relate to someone else is the most basic and universal human desire.

When were you diagnosed? 2007... I think?

Favorite subjects? Sociology, English, creative writing, history and philosophy

Year / grade? Freshman in college.

Favorite music? (by genre) Bestial war black metal, depressive suicidal black metal, old-school black metal, brutal death metal, old-school death metal (especially the Swedish scene), pornogrind, technical death metal, nu metal, folk metal, glam metal, gothic metal, symphonic metal, thrash metal, melodic death metal, traditional heavy metal, hard rock, alternative rock, folk, dark ambient, industrial, electronic, old-school pop tunes, conscious hip-hop, downtempo, classic hardcore punk, video game soundtracks

Books? (I'm throwing in plays as well) The Giver, The Outsiders, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Othello, Ender's Game, the Harry Potter series, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Left Behind series (just for s**ts 'n' giggles), the 120 Days of Sodom, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fight Club, American Psycho

TV shows? That Metal Show, Metalocalypse, Futurama, the Simpsons, Built to Shred, Superjail!, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Samurai Jack, Lloyd in Space, SpongeBob SquarePants, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Monk, Law and Order, The Office

Movies? Scarface, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Carrie (1976 version), Treasure Planet, the Star Wars movies, Fight Club, American Psycho

Instrument(s)? Bass guitar.

Do you like sports? Only skateboarding, and that's probably because of the Tony Hawk's games.

Family? I'm an only child. I have a mom and a dad, who are separated. That's all I want to say about it here.

Clothing? T-shirts for my favorite bands (especially longsleeves), leather jacket, Levis, Chuck Taylors

How did you find this website? I literally searched for 'compassionate forum for aspies' and found this site.

Job? Full-time student.

Plans for the future? To write the next great American novel, or at least to write something people can relate to.

Any comments? I probably put way too much effort into this, and should've done this when I first joined! Either way, PM me if you want.

Really? Same here. Whereabouts in New England?



Definitely agree with that.

I live on the South Shore in MA. I actually lived in Springfield for part of my early childhood. Nice town, but the schools weren't right for me so we pulled out and moved to where I am now.

Nice. You used to live only a short distance from my neck of the woods. I've been a West Sider my whole life. Only a few minutes out from Springfield.

What is your first name? Rick. That is my real name. Not Richard, because my dad didn't want anyone to call me Dick. Personally, I would like Dick better. It is better suited

Age:43

Location: Minnesota

Hobbies and Interests: cars, boats, motorcycles, guns. Stuff like that. I enjoy the mechanics of things. I like making things. I enjoy watching a good movie too.

Why are you here? I'm trying to come out of the closet I guess.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Need one. Hopefully I will come out normal if I ever get one, but I'm doubting it. I need money.

Favorite subjects: my hobbies, and interests of course.

Year/Grade: 12+1+1&1/2 to finish the first 12

Favorite music: stuff like megadeath, Primus, cake, eminem, old metallica, pantera, jimmy hendrix, led zepplin, bach, limp bizkit, prince, tool, korn.

Books: Carlos Castaneda. It really gets me thinking about stuff.

TV shows/Movies: no Tv shows really. Some of my favorite movies are Clint Eastwood flix, purple rain (he is fom here), monty python, young guns, goodwill hunting, the fisher king, men who stare at goats, smokey and the bandit, powder, the matrix, as good as it gets, kill bill, the lawnmower man, big trouble in little china, bullworth, hearts in atlantis, gangs of new york. I will stop there

Instrument: I played a trumpet in high school I was horrible. Something about the connection between my brain, and fingers just don't work like most people. I failed a one year typing class too.

Do you like sports? Not really.

Family: none of my own

Clothing: Mostly stained. I have fancy clothes I never wear. I look too good in them anyways. Way too many compliments.

How did you find this website? A search about the stuff I was going through.

Job: currently self employed, and fairly broke.

Plans for the future? My options are open. Other than that, I think I found myself, and that to me is my future.

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What is your first name? Martin

Age: 49

Location: Beccles, United Kingdom

Religion: Atheist. I think about god or gods in the same way as I do about Santa Clause, The Tooth Fairy and "The Flying Spaghetti Monster": while theoretically they could exist, in the absence of any objective and rational evidence for them, the only reasonable conclusion is that they almost certainly do not.

Politics: Right-of-center. What I want is for the UK to have control over our own laws, a criminal justice system that prefers victims over criminals and, in general, our National Sovereignty back from the EU. Is there anybody I can safely vote for other than the Raving Loonies?

Hobbies and Interests: Astronomy, heavy rock music, information technology, walking and the cat fancy. I have some interest in mathematical philosophy, foundations of mathematics and so on, but am strictly an amateur. I have an electrical engineering and computer science background and still find those interesting, up to a point.

Why are you here? Primarily to find a partner: the pool of single women with Asperger Syndrome in my segment of Real Life is very small. I would also like to share experiences: both for cathartic reasons and to help others like myself.

When were you diagnosed? A few years ago. First by a GP while experiencing depression and stress, confirmed by a psychiatrist a year or so later. Where I live, the NHS did not at the time fund diagnosis for adults; I have thus not been able to take the usual battery of psychometric tests; however, looking back at my history and considering my emotional and psychological state prior to recovery, it all makes sense and it is pretty clear that I have Asperger Syndrome.

Favorite subjects: Astronomy, cosmology and computer science.

Year/Grade: BSc (2/i) in Computer Systems in the late 1980s; MSc in microelectronics in the early 1990s.

Do you keep pets? A ginger cat. A big ginger cat. I am keeping him on a diet, as he would eat all day if he could

Favorite music: Heavy Rock (e.g., Hawkwind and Raven); Heavy Metal (e.g., Agent Steel and Overkill); Baroque (e.g., Bach and Handel).

Books: My life is in such flux and I am so busy that I barely have time to read. Previously, and I hope subsequently: Science-Fiction (e.g., Jack of Shadows, an interesting fusion of SF and Fantasy); "sword and sandals" Fantasy (e.g., The Knight & Knave of Swords); Non-fiction, the more eclectic the better, (e.g. Medieval Russian Laws, Irrationality - The Enemy Within, Honourable Cat (poetry); and, though not strictly a book, Wikipedia's articles on mathematical philosophy, astronomy and cosmology).

TV shows/movies: TV: Stargate SG-1, Star Trek Enterprise, The Sky at Night, Great British/European Train Journeys, The Code (and anything else by Professor du Sautoy), Horizon (anything involving Cosmology or Physics), What We Still Don't Know (a bit old, but groundbreaking for its time, great stuff from Professor Sir Martin Rees) and for pure entertainment: Midsomer Murders. Boxed DVD sets: The History Channel: Egypt, Barbarians, Engineering an Empire and my favourite, Clash of the Gods). I have also watched my way through most Agatha Christie detective series, Morse, Lewis, New Tricks and Endeavour. Movies: Dredd 2D (2012), The Punisher (2004).

Instrument: Piano - I can play a little by ear. As a child, I could read music up to a point.

Do you like sports? To watch: Football, Cricket. To play: no.

Family: I have been single nearly all my life and have no children. I am on good terms with most of my birth family and we all keep in touch, primarily with Facebook.

Clothing: I prefer soft, comfortable clothes coloured black, dark blue or deep red.

How did you find this website? I can't remember, it was all too long ago

Job: Various roles with Asperger East Anglia at the Beccles Project. Primarily Book Sales Co-ordinator (paid) and Social Media Co-Ordinator (volunteer). I also run the local social group for adults with Asperger Syndrome.

How do you get around? I have a full, clean UK driver's licence and a car. I prefer to walk, catch the bus or take the train; however, East Anglia is very rural; most of my social life requires private transport to reach. I hope also to buy a bicycle at some point; I used to enjoy riding.

Plans for the future? Find a really sweet-natured and truly nice woman who has Asperger Syndrome with whom to share lifelong true love, or as close an approximation to the ideal of true love as actually exists; own a home of my own; show cats in competition; speak about astronomy to the general public. The latter is scheduled for February next year and I have already spoken about autism to the general public, though I hope to do more of that in the future.

What do you look like?


Any comments? To get a fuller idea about me, just click the find all posts link on my profile; however, here's a brief summary.

* I have always been looking for "others like me" since secondary school but didn't know exactly what that meant. I thought things would change at University, but even at postgraduate level, most of the people that I met were clever NTs rather than Aspies; Iwas quite surprised that nobody else wanted to sit quietly over tea and discuss philosophy and logic. I did start a mini campaign that year to replace some droll electrical engineering module on our course with "Formal Methods pt 2"; I guess that was a small victory for reason and science

* I did have a job for ten years, but it all went wrong due to the work changing; it was really the wrong job to begin with, but was all I could get, given my then-unknown AS and the depression of the early 1990s.

* I spent all but the last year or so recieving ESA, a disability based social security benefit; I took part in various employment rehabilitation programmes; leaned to drive; and got something of a social life. I improved slowly but surely, both in employability and in my personal life; my volunteering in a customer-facing role helped a lot; however, due to lack of effective support I became stuck in a rut.

* Meanwhile, after a couple of years admiring her from a distance and lacking the social skills to romance her, I developed enough to fall in love a year or so ago with a really nice woman I knew who was obviously on much the same wavelength as myself. It didn't work out for various reasons, not least because of her insecurity about her own eccentricities.

* Being otherwise well adjusted and hiding her Asperger Syndrome very cleverly, it was a shock for me to realise just after she had turned me down that yes, she really was in many ways a "female version of me". I had given up hope that such a person existed, the whole idea seemed too good to be true and, apparently terrified of being "outed" as being autistic, she had been hiding under my nose all that time.

* The shock and pain of rejection did at least catalyse me into action; a bit like Pearl Harbour bringing the USA into WWII; it awoke the sleeping giant. I just started, out of desperation, to do something about the personal flaws I perceived; it was very slow at first, but I just kept on going where the younger me would have given up. As a result, many life skills and knowledge patterns, the kind NTs take for granted, suddenly made sense all at once; it was as if I had just walked out of an endless bank of fog and into the sunlight.

* After nearly a year, I am almost down to my correct weight, have massively improved life and employability skills; have a much-better personal life; am getting physically fit again and have a job at last. It was an utterly horrible experience, but it paved the road to recovery. I now want to enjoy the things I have missed out on in life so far; things that NTs take almost for granted.

* Most importantly, I am over the woman I spoke of; she and I have sometimes talked to each other almost normally. I hope that somebody exists out there with whom I can be at a good match.

* I would like to find that person and it is primarily to that end that I am here on Wrong Planet.

What is your first name? Danny

Age? 17

Location? For this website, unknown

Hobbies and Interests? Videogames (Tomb Raider's and Metal Gear Solid are the best), Movies, Music (Arctic Monkeys and Paramore), Maths and Science

Why are you here? To try to talk to people like me and hopefully make some friends.

Favorite subjects? Maths, Physics, Biology

Year / grade? 13

Favorite music? Rock and Indie. Arctic Monkeys, Paramore, Jake Bugg, Fall Out Boy etc....

Books? Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Enders Game, Maze Runner

TV shows? Pushing Davies, Perception, Elementary, Forever, House

Movies? Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Batman's, Spiderman's, any superhero really.

Instrument(s)? Guitar

Do you like sports? Tennis, Skateboarding/Snowboarding

How did you find this website? Google

Job? Student

Plans for the future? Mathematics BSc

What is your first name?
Allen

Age: 22

Location: Unknown

Hobbies and Interests: Metal, Punk, Martial arts, guitar, Art, Drums, Gaming, Comic, Manga, Computer, Cooking, watching the sunset.

Why are you here? To get to know one another that had aspergers as much as i do to form a friend or beyond.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): somewhere around my childhood.

Favorite subjects: Music, Math, Art and psychology.

Year/Grade: Sophomore in college

Favorite music: Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Thrash/speed metal, Black Metal, Black/Thrash, black/Death, Death/Thrash, Power metal, Grindcore, Old School Death Metal, Sludge Metal, Crust Punk, 80s Hardcore Punk,
Swedish hardcore punk, Punk, anarcho punk, Dark Ambient.

Books: The Book of Five Rings, various of books. Manga: Vagabond, Fist Of The North Stars, Rurouni Kenshin, Blade of the Immortal, TMNT.

TV shows/Movies: Sailor Moon, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Batman TOS, Superman TOS, Gundam Wing,
Mobile Suit Gundam, G Gundam, Ronin Warriors, Fist Of The North Stars, Samurai 7, Slayers.

Instrument: Mostly Electric Guitar but sometime Drums and Bass Guitar.

Do you like sports? NOPE (unless it's martial arts)

Family: 1 older Brother and 1 younger Sister, my mother and father.

Clothing: mostly wear black band t-shirts, Jeans, and black shoes. Also Leather bracelet (sometimes spikes) and ancient necklaces like Baphomet and Sun cross.

How did you find this website? Google

Job: Musician.

Plans for the future? Form a home studio, travel around the world.

Any comments? n/a