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lau
Quinquaginta Novem! Male Gee-knee-us + silly bits.
Joined: Jun 18, 2006
Age: 59
Posts: 7448
Location: Somerset UK
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| T-rav20 wrote: | | Lau wrote: | | I am ageist in only one aspect. I know that, as a general rule, older people have more experience. All that means to me is that I don't expect a 3yo to be familiar with string theory or a 16yo to have visited Knossos. |
I don't know about Knossos, but by sixteen I had visited The Bahamas, England (London), Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv), and Jordan (Petra ruins) as well as most of the 46 (United) States...
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Good for you, and I wish I'd been to that many places.
It doesn't show up too well, but I did put "expect" in italics.
If the 3yo turns out to know a bit of M-plane theory, I'll listen, 'cos I don't understand that too well (if at all  ).
I've only spent a day at Knossos (Crete, Minotaur, and all that), so if the 16yo has spent the summer doing a dig there, I'd be fascinated.
Hopefully, I've usually got something useful to give back.  |
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blackdove
Toucan
Joined: Nov 22, 2005
Age: 25
Posts: 278
Location: spaceship
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:53 am Post subject: |
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yay! interesting responses by everyone!! I'm here for several reasons.
1. to understand what "aspergers" is.
2. to cope with it, and relate to other people on the spectrum.
3. to fulfill curiousity. (each member has something insightful or humorous to add to the forum)
i'm sure there's more reasons. but thats all for now.
plus, this site is addictive. 
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JayM
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Feb 21, 2007
Age: 18
Posts: 41
Location: England
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I'm here to see what other people with Asperger's are like and to see how they live their lives. I'm also kinda bored.  |
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RedMage
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Joined: Nov 09, 2006
Posts: 6813
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| I'm here because I'm an Aspie and WP is a great help to me. |
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Catalyst
Velociraptor
Joined: Nov 24, 2006
Posts: 419
Location: Left of Center
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I am here to get help understanding myself.
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TigerFire
SquallLeonhart
Joined: Mar 03, 2006
Posts: 1901
Location: Cave Spring GA USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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I'm here to ask questions and answers questions about AS and other issues. The company here is great.
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SpaceCase
Always Here,Never There...
Joined: Mar 15, 2005
Age: 18
Posts: 2669
Location: Mississippi,USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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I joined WP when I was 14,a year after I learned of my diagnosis of HFA. I wanted to talk to other people who went through the same things I did and has the same struggles.
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KurtmanJP
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 13, 2006
Posts: 689
Location: Ramona, California
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Because i'm an Aspie.
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krex
Phoenix
Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Age: 45
Posts: 4995
Location: Village of the Damned
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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I originally came here to be educated about AS by the experts who are considered AS,rather then the "specialist",who I have found to be constantly, unapologetically wrong about......almost everything.
I stayed, because I "met" people I thought were intelligent, humorous and shared some of my perceptions.Also have been given some great links to information and entertainment links I was unaware of.It's so nice not to be told that.....
"you think to much,you are such a black and white thinker,quit worrying about it and just be happy,why dont you smile more?
You are so self-centered,why dont you care how I feel you...... insensitive,cold fish."
People may think those things about me here but they dont say it and it allows me to be my own "defective"self without all the energy of trying to analysis every word before I type it.
I am also a bit odd for an aspie,in that one of my interests has always been.....people....how they think,what they feel,what they do.The smaller the detail,the more interesting it is to me.
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euphrosyne
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Feb 03, 2007
Posts: 181
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| I'm not exactly sure why I came to this forum. I joined the day I realized that I had Asperger's syndrome. I've always had a strange feeling that I was some how different from everyone else, but I don't feel like that here so that is probably why I decided to stay. |
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Juggernaut
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 05, 2006
Age: 22
Posts: 569
Location: Colorado
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| JayM wrote: | | I'm here to see what other people with Asperger's are like and to see how they live their lives. I'm also kinda bored. |
Me too. I don't need wp to make friends as I have friends in real life, but I like hearing other peoples views who view the world similarly to me. I also like the fact that I can share my own opinions to an understanding crowd. I would rather not get too much into the online world as I don't think anything could replace face to face relationships, but I wish I had had this back when I didn't have friends, because this site probably would have saved me from a lot of pain. |
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Deccajay
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Joined: Oct 14, 2006
Posts: 661
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| CAUSE I SAID SO!!!!!!!!! |
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Featherways
Snowy Owl
Joined: Nov 06, 2005
Posts: 128
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: Why am I here |
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| Because this is one place where I can be myself. Not the only place, but one place. Because sometimes it helps to read that others have the same difficulties as I do. Because if I have a bad day, I could post something on here. |
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ARW_AS
Sea Gull
Joined: Mar 22, 2006
Posts: 200
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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aspiewhostandsalone
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Dec 22, 2007
Posts: 55
Location: Platte City Missouri
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| Claradoon wrote: | | I come here because I'm mainstream here. Nobody thinks my weird stuff is weird at all. I'm allowed to exist, just as I am. |
i am VERY inclined to agree claradoon and i came here after reading all the stuff on asperger's syndrome or AS and found that all the info was biased and from an NT perspective and it was very limited. I Also came here to find out that im not the ONLY one with the same issues
Best Reguards:
aspiewhostandsalone |
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