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i've seen Psychiatry SAVE lives.

You make up your own mind and ignore both sides....that's an order!

Yep....I agree with Slave. Make up your own mind.

What is your first name? Lauren

Age: 16

Location: Texas, home of the stereotypes

Hobbies and Interests: Writing, wasting time on the Internet

Why are you here? Heck if I know.

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): Never

Favorite subjects: Creative writing and nothing else

Year/Grade: 11th (junior in high school)

Favorite music: Nothing specific

Books: I no longer have the patience or attention span for reading, though I enjoyed Harry Potter.

TV shows/Movies: Harry Potter and Narnia?escapism for the win. HP has been with me my entire life, and is easily my most favorite story ever. It has inspired my imagination in so many ways.

Instrument: I play trumpet but I love the sound of the French horn (when played well.)

Do you like sports? Heck to the no.

Family: I have two parents and an older brother. I won't give more details than that.

Clothing: T-shirts and soccer shorts?jeans when it's cold, but I hate them.

How did you find this website? Heck if I know.

Job: Hahahahahaha. No.

Plans for the future? Plan A: Write fiction books, make a decent living Plan B: Live out on the streets and die

Any comments? I hope that wasn't too much information.

Please don't live out on the streets; they're not nice.

'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.