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What is your first name?: Carolyn
Age: 23
Location: UK
Hobbies and Interests: video games, collecting, sculpting & figure customization, music, movies
Why are you here?: To join a community really. Maybe feel a little less isolated.
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Age 20! I'm autistic
Favorite subjects: Art!
Year/Grade: None
Favorite music: Lots - rock, metal, pop and some dance stuff
Books: Sabriel (Old kingdom trilogy), Millennium series by Stieg Larsson, Battle Royale, Generally fantasy and crime/mystery stuff.
TV shows/Movies: Lord of the rings, Bourne, Resident evil, Hunger games series, Horror and crime stuff (even though i can't look! 
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Instrument: None unfortunately
Do you like sports? Nope
Family: I have parents, an older sister, Opa, Aunt and my sis' boyfriend (who i see as my brother pretty much). I have other family members but i never see them.
Clothing: I like cute stuff but i mostly wear comfortable warm things, like jumpers and such. Or cute and comfortable things if i can. Onesies are awesome.
How did you find this website? My Mum
Job: Unemployed
Plans for the future? Not sure. End goal would be to get better with sculpting and customizing figures. And maybe get back into drawing/painting again.
Any comments?
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16 Feb 2015, 3:03 pm
welcome to wp everyone! 
20 Feb 2015, 9:49 pm
What is your first name?Erin
Age:34
Location:Orlando Florida
Hobbies and Interests:i like jigsaw puzzles,bike riding and nature and i love animals
Why are you here?to be socialable and meet cool people
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder):in November 2014 with aspergers
Favorite subjects:not sure
Year/Grade:high school graduate
Favorite music:country,hip-hop, pop,r&b,and some alternative
Books:fiction and some non fiction
TV shows/Movies:cartoons, action, and fantasy
Instrument:played the piano a lil bit when I was younger
Do you like sports?yes love baseball
Family:youngest of three
Clothing:loose and comfy if i could wear sweats all day i would
How did you find this website?my therapist suggested it
Job: assistant manager at universal studios Orlando
Plans for the future? Just to be myself and happy
Any comments? I have a small dog named cuddles and he is the best. He gets me through my day. I cant imagine life without him 
26 Feb 2015, 7:43 am
VictoryForCake
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Joined: 4 May 2014
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Posts: 20
Location: Somewhere in the USSR (CCCP)
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06 Mar 2015, 9:05 am
That's just what I am planning to do this year!
We have lots of space on our land that we own since 2014 and I am about to fill it with tomatoes and pumpkins and zucchini and kale and so on... I don't have much gardening experience yet, though, so I expect to be making lots of mistakes What is your first name? Raya
Age: 31
Location: Scandinavia
Hobbies and Interests:
writing, making music, learning new things (esp. languages), computers, bicycle, hiking, permaculture (organic gardening), foraging, botany, building stuff, inventing stuff I cannot build, reading, photography, quantum/astrophysics, psychology, philosophy, Rubik's cubes... and probably lots of other things I don't remember right now
Why are you here?
I'm hoping to find interesting people who are actually interested in talking to me, which is and undertaking I usually absolutely suck at (the people I enjoy talking to on a daily basis can be counted on the fingers of one hand).
I also want to find out more about Asperger's and see how people deal with certain problems
Favorite subjects:
Back then it was maths, physics, chemistry, all language classes, ethics (substitute for religion class), gym class (all but team sports), arts, music...
I wasn't always good at all of these subjects, though. It depended on the topic we were studying - I was very picky. I still am, that's probably why I still haven't been able to specialize in anything...
Year/Grade:
Effortlessly got my German high-school diploma, voluntarily dropped out of university after 5 years due to... personal issues I am still not quite clear about
Favorite music:
Too much to fit in here... mostly rock, alternative, Pink Floyd, L. Cohen, Muse, Queen, Grails, Rammstein, Deep Purple, Vaya Con Dios, Portishead... older Russian stuff I grew up with, G. Sviridov, S. Rachmaninoff, J. S. Bach, and whatever comes along and makes me like it.
Books:
"The Master and Margarita" (M. Bulgakov), stuff by Alastair Reynolds, stuff by Dazai Osamu, "Thinking, fast and slow" (Daniel Kahneman), Lermontov's poems, R. M. Rilke's poems, "Atlas shrugged" (A. Rand), stuff by Aldous Huxley, Philip Pullman, "Do androids dream of electric sheep" (Philip K. Dick), "War’s Unwomanly Face" (Svetlana Alexievich), the Bible ... and others I don't recall at the moment
TV shows/Movies:
Star Trek, Firefly, Elementary, Sherlock, Bones, Castle, The Mentalist, Doctor Who, Torchwood, How to get away with murder, The Big Bang Theory, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Ranma...
Blade Runner, James Bond, Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Good Will Hunting, Princess Mononoke, Moscow doesn't believe in tears, Nebesa obetovannye, Starye klyachi, Sorok Pervyj... and more...
Instrument:
Haven't mastered any, but can play the guitar, a little piano, a little accordion, and learning the violin... which I, probably, will never master, either
Do you like sports?
yes, if it has something to do with physical strength and nothing to do with teams.
Family:
Russian-German roots, great parents, great younger sister; whatever I did - my family always supported me. Great partner - possibly the only man in the world who is crazy enough to enjoy being around me for more than 13 years
Clothing:
Comfortable stuff most of the time. I might wear a dress for a birthday or Christmas or even to the cinema, and I might wear something with heels if they're under 5 cm, and I even might put on some eyeliner... but it always feels unnatural when I go out like this. Maybe I don't like being noticed all of a sudden just because of something I happen to wear at the moment; I don't know what to do with the attention one gets from strangers.
How did you find this website?
Was looking for information on Asperger's.
Job:
Freelance translator
Plans for the future?
Get our land to produce enough for the both of us so that we can eat our own fruits and vegetables all year long and never have to go to the supermarket again. Finish all the novels I've started. Learn more languages. Master at least one instrument. Oh yeah - and fix my head.
Any comments?
My greatest problem with myself is that I never, ever, ask for help when I really need it. And this fact has been sabotaging my life for years. It has also made me pretty strong - and a great faker - but you can only fake it so far. At some point, you break. And when you break, people get hurt. So I decided that I shall look for strategies to ... fix this somehow. Well... any advice is appreciated. I don't know whether I really have Asperger's, maybe I'm just missing something, maybe I just need to find this piece of the puzzle that will make my head function properly.
What I know is that I am not able to handle real emotions - they overwhelm me, so I tuck them away and don't let anyone touch them. I don't know how to deal with sad people, people in distress - I can offer them to try and solve their problem if they explain it to me, but I cannot offer them the comfort they probably need (I myself don't like being comforted). I avoid emotional situations at all cost, diverting from certain topics, putting on a happy face, lying and faking my way through the moment, trying to nip any impending collision of emotions in the bud, knowing very well that there IS an adult way to deal with all this, while desperately trying to ignore the fact that I have no idea as to WHAT this adult way may be. I'm actually pretty good at "reading the mind from the eyes" (I scored 31 out of 36 on that Baron-Cohen test, but it felt like I cheated since I determined several emotions by exclusion and almost none of them by pure intuition...), and I use this skill solely to get through the day smoothly, avoiding stressful people and situations. I even tend to avoid people who like me because they think that I'm good at something - their presumed expectation that I will do something great is just too much for me to shoulder, even if this expectation is just in my head - it feels too real to me, too heavy. I rather dissapoint them by burning all bridges than by not delivering something great... Some of my worst nightmares are those where I suddenly meet these people on the street and have to explain myself to them...
At the same time, I don't like being left alone with my own brain for too long... I like input, I like discussing interesting topics with people who are willing and able to skip the "social" part of the conversation - small talk, polite behaviour that doesn't reflect their true thoughts, waiting for me to say something specific that is part of the "social code", wanting me to guess whether they want something to drink or to eat...
When it comes to intellectual topics, honesty and earnest opinion are all I'm interested in. When it comes to emotions, it's the other way round - I fear honesty as if I could die from it.
TL;DR: My head is messed up and I cannot handle emotions - how do you people deal with it?
07 Mar 2015, 7:18 pm
What is your first name? Vidar
Age: 24
Location: Norway
Hobbies and Interests: game development and other programming projects.
Why are you here? to see if someone writes something smart
When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): A few days ago
Favorite subjects: programming, game design, computer vision(and other AI topics), entrepreneurship
Year/Grade: MSc student
Favorite music: daft punk, TV on the radio, other peoples playlists on spotify.
Books: Don't read fiction 
TV shows/Movies: Many, many TV shows.
Instrument: nope(quit the baritone horn in 9th grade)
Do you like sports? F1, WRC, ++
Family: Very nice people I see at Christmas.
Clothing: yes, when I leave my room.
How did you find this website? Other forum
Job: Worked as a cab driver the past few summers, hopefully something more relevant to my studies this summer.
Plans for the future? Software engineering job or trying some entrepreneurship.
Any comments? PM me? 
I'll always answer.
11 Mar 2015, 11:59 am
Hello, I'm new here and this thread looked like a good place to start. Probably no one will read this post but I thought I'd join in anyway!
What is your first name? Jo
Age: 23
Location: UK
Hobbies and Interests: digital art, computers, the internet, urban legends, non-fiction books, documentaries, watching films and learning behind the scene stuff about how they were made, writing, going to comedy shows, learning about anything and everything
Why are you here? Mostly really looking to find out coping mechanisms and tips from other people who think in similar ways to me. I'm new to this diagnosis and looking to find out what works for me
When were you diagnosed? Diagnosed aspie at the very end of December last year, so still pretty new to me. Was diagnosed ADHD at the same time and dyspraxic earlier in the year, and was also diagnosed cyclothymic 3 years ago so I've got a whole bunch of annoying labels!
Favorite subjects: Not at school any more but am at uni now, studying art. My main interests to do with my course are digital art and the influence of the internet and technology on art production and the art world. I'm really interested in hyperreality and I myself make 3D animated abstract films mostly.
Year/Grade: 4th year of university
Favorite music: The White Stripes/Jack White have always been my favs since I was little, but I also like a big range of other music like Ratatat, Young Fathers, Crystal Fighters, Foxes, Opiuo, lots and lots really
Books: I like non fiction books, particularly about disproving urban legends or what I think are called 'pop science' books. I really like all of Jon Ronson's books too. If I read fiction it's mostly plays, I can't really manage novels.
TV shows/Movies: I like contemporary sorta sci-fi/super hero films like guardians of the galaxy, the fifth element, the amazing spiderman, things like that. The rest of what I like is really varied, I like the Great Gatsby, Factory Girl, The Boat That Rocked,..
Instrument: I don't play any (dyspraxia is part of the reason for this!)
Do you like sports? Not really!
Family: I have an older brother who I suspect is also aspie but is undiagnosed
Clothing: I have a habit of buying lots of clothes, I really like shopping. Most of my clothes are pink, fluffy, or have pictures of aliens on..!
How did you find this website? Actually found it when searching for aspergers jokes
Job: I work as a careers assistant at my university, I love it
Plans for the future? I'd like to train to be a careers advisor and get a job in a university, and get a nice house in the north of England with my other half
Any comments? I'm new to all this forum stuff but I'd like to see where it takes me. Hi anyone reading!
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