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Dminor
Butterfly
Joined: Sep 30, 2009
Age: 25
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Hi everyone
Im Dave, im 25 and ive lived in Florida my whole life except for a 6 month vacation in Thailand where i did a bit of kickboxing (and had the least intense symptoms). I have a bit of a troubled past that anyone that would like to know about can feel free to ask, ill let out more as i get more comfortable here 
As of now I work at Borders as a cashier and make music.
I recently made the decision to move in with my grandad to save money to move somewhere else, and hopefully play alot of shows. I have a thing about being on a stage that gives me better therapy than any psychologist. Yet one on one with people im aspy all over haha |
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Tim_Tex
Bunnies!!!
Joined: Jul 03, 2004
Age: 29
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Location: To Be Determined
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to WP!
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Garimi
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Joined: Oct 07, 2009
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My name is Jenn.. and I have so many nicknames from family over the years, I answer to anything that sounds vaguely like name. My main nickname used online is Tamayoke No Garimi. Basically it says I am a lucky redhead that loves pickles adn is pretty. It had a lot of play on kanji characters when first given. I live in Phx Arizona
I am raised multi-religion (Native & Jewish) with the most being Roman Catholic. I am just a squeak above average in height, IQ, number of kids being 5'8 with 3 children. My eyes are hazel , usually red brown. I have a hereditary blood disorder.
My middle child(male) is suspected autistic/Asperger's. My youngest is diagnosed classically autistic (he was a bilingual, athletic that became suddenly non verbal sudden onset at 2).
I am not sure of my diagnosis. I was in speech therapy and hippo therapy back in the 60s for something. Dyslexic diagnosis at age 7. Mum was not as hands on a parent and dad is deceased.
I still can't tell time or tie my shoes right. Least I can ride a bike after 40 years! Even raced.
I have a hyper metabolism, and a lazy demeanor.
I like silversmithing, snowboarding DH racing, sailing, animal training, inventory control, children, my children, genetic expression in breeding projects, music, theatre, anime, chocolate and travel.
I want to be a master farrier. Not gonna happen so far.
Have several uncles that are diagnosed autistic when young and quite some time ago (50s-60s) They are all rocket scientists, mathematicians and architects for the most part. So maybe it isn't so debilitating after all. They are just weird.
My younger son seems far different than family members with Asperger's.
And now after 4 phone calls I must post this. My train of thought is fully derailed now . ^_^
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Tim_Tex
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Age: 29
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| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:43 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to WP!
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sciencepanda
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Joined: Oct 11, 2009
Age: 20
Posts: 6
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I'm Adam. I'm twenty years old, and I'm currently studying to be an illustrator. I don't really mentally disconnect the who creative and intellectual aspects in things, so I really tend to think of art as just another form of social science. I like to paint a lot of biological and or horror based things.
Otherwise, I am interested in literature, psychology and biology (mostly marine biology.) I am also somewhat fond of tokusatsu, but that's admittedly somewhat obscure, so I don't know if people would be any knowledgeable of that.
I was raised Jewish, but I've basically been an atheist since I was ten.
I have a pet turtle, but I'm honestly not really a lover of animals. I've been phobic of dogs since I was two.
I also just tend to sputter off when I run out of things to say... |
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brittany89
Hummingbird
Joined: Oct 11, 2009
Posts: 22
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| My name is Brit. I'm new here. I'm 20 years old and I am a Math and Biology major. I play guitar and tenor sax. I tutor Calculus I-III. I spend most of my time in tissue culture lab these days. I'm pretty busy most of the time but hopefully I can find some time to spend here. I am planning on going to grad school for Bioinformatics now. |
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Tim_Tex
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to WP!
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RhettOracle
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Oct 11, 2009
Posts: 30
Location: Florida
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:10 am Post subject: |
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You can call me Rhett. It'll be weird, because nobody else does.
I just turned 51. I was diagnosed with a condition that would have been called Asperger's in 1964 if anyone had known what it was. It has made for some mighty challenges during my life, and I had to learn to cope or face the alternative. For a long time, I went with the alternative. Since learning about AS, the descriptions fit what my life has been like so closely, that I will be going for an evaluation later this month.
I was born in Canada and lived there until I was 39. Now I live in Florida. Against all odds, I found a kindred female spirit, and we have been married for eleven and a half years, without an argument, I might add. She lived here; I left Canada to come here to be with her.
I have no degrees. I had a terrible time at school, from the beginning. My mother taught me to read, write and spell before I went to kindergarten. You might think this would have been an advantage, but it went totally the other way. In grade 2, the school board sent me to the mental hospital on Tuesday afternoons for testing and evaluation. The next year, they sent me across town to the other school to take grades 3, 4 and 5 in two years, and then sent me back to my previous school for grades 6 - 8. I was a year or two younger than everybody else, and a grade ahead of my peers. My life went downhill from there. In short, they created this program for me, gave me no direction during it, and turned me out at the end with no followup. Thanks a lot, guys. By the time I was in Grade 12, things were so bad I had to quit school and escape from my little town. I was pretty much homeless for the next 16 years.
I have no political or religious affiliations.
My obsessions are all musical. I play keyboards, drums, bass and guitars. I collect records and CDs. I'm currently filling in a database of the CDs, and there are over 5500 of those. I haven't started on the vinyl yet, and there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 pieces of that. One of my hobbies is to restore old records on the computer, removing every last click, thump and noise, leaving only the music. For Christmas, I am getting a Korg M5061 workstation. This is a keyboard that has thousands of sounds and a way to layer and record them, and it interfaces with my computer. I can't wait! Finally, I will get all that music in my head out in a form where I can hear it coming out of speakers! I may never go outside again...
I work in radio, as an announcer, program producer and sound engineer.
As you may have guessed, all this other stuff I do leaves no time to watch TV. For 16 years I didn't have one, and now it doesn't occur to me to want to watch it. I do have a large VHS collection of stuff I recorded off TV after I got one, and a small DVD collection. Most of it is music-related. The only video game I've ever played was Pong, when it was new.
The computer is my favorite piece of equipment. I learn information on it, and record music on it, and connect to the world on it. I don't connect with anyone I used to know on it, because none of them seem to have joined the digital age. Several years back, my oldest friend, dragged kicking and screaming into computing, sent me an e-mail virus that wiped out my hard drive and several years of work. Everyone is blocked from my main e-mail address now except for two people and one company. The other e-mail accounts I have are anonymous.
Places I've been: I hitchhiked from Windsor, Ontario to Vancouver, BC and back in 1976, with a detour to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on the way out. Beyond that, I've only been to a couple of cities in New York state, to Los Angeles, and Florida, no further south than Orlando. My wife and I plan to visit England and Scotland, and maybe Wales if we have time while we're there.
I don't drive a car. I haven't driven since 1975. It's the closest thing I have to a phobia. Sitting at the wheel makes my knees quiver uncontrollably. I am terrified not to die in a car accident, but to live through one, all mangled up. Where I used to live, there is excellent public transit and I never needed a car, not that I could have afforded one anyway. Where I live now, the drivers are horrible. We see accidents all the time, and I'm not getting on the road with those people! My wife is a great driver, though, and I'm a great passenger. She comes from a place where it's necessary to have a car, so it comes naturally to her.
Well, see ya around the boards. Thanks for having me. |
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Tim_Tex
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Age: 29
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Welcome to WP!
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homo_aspien
Butterfly
Joined: Oct 19, 2009
Posts: 14
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I’m 58 but I managed to survive to 53 before I was diagnosed.
Always felt that I was normal and the rest of the world was weird.
I am now aware that there was talk of mild ASD when I was a child but a decision was made to send me to a ‘normal’ school and see how I coped.
In retrospect, I recall countless examples where my late parents guided me through what they would have been told was a ‘disorder’.
I’ve been seeing a psychologist on an irregular basis since my diagnosis. Our sessions are relaxed and informal; as much about her learning about AS through me, as me developing a better understanding of the condition and dealing with the outside world through her.
I have an AQ of 43 and IQ of 147 but have difficulty assimilating certain types of information and procedures. The sessions with my psychologist have helped me to see that my brain operates best on a symbolic level.
I’m a professional writer and my best work happens when I tap this symbolic lode; it seems to resonate for NTs without them being able to say exactly what it is that they like about it..
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Tim_Tex
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Welcome to WP!
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Meow333
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Oct 22, 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:02 am Post subject: 1,2,3.. |
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Meow333
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Oct 22, 2009
Posts: 50
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:14 am Post subject: okay the reply is working |
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 Hi all, i'm new here.
Things about myself.. i like animals, researching random things that interest me online, video games, bmxbikes, true crime stories, reading books. I enjoy urban exploration abandoned places, motorcycles, photography, tattoos.
I'm 30 years old.
I have a beautiful wife who i live with. Hopefully we'll be moving back to Florida soon. Right now we're in the glum Northeast living with my family again to save up money.
I dislike the tv, however my wife will get shows for us to watch online and the 2 i like and watch are Fringe and Criminal Minds.
The purpose of tv is for video games, i enjoy shooter type games on the Xbox 360. I am racking up xbox 360 live points to sell them eventually one day to fund our mortage when we move.
I have a really hard time being in public and i'll avoid social situations. We work online (my wife, Ally & i). It is easier for me to not have to deal with the general public on a daily basis in person.
All through out school since kindergarten i was made fun for being "weird", "odd", everything on the list. I never conformed to their standards and i never will, i can't help it, it's who i am
When in grade school, i had "behavior problems" that included not paying attention and listening to the teacher, however in 3rd grade i got out of special help classes. In 1st grade the "special help class" teacher recommended to my mother to put me into a theraputic horse back riding program (to try to help my social skills) which i did for 8 years until the stables closed down. I had an excellent riding instructor who i lost touch with at age 16. I feel that horseback riding was benefitial, unfortunately though at my old age i've not rode in years. I was diagnosed with Aspergers in 98' at age 18. I do have meltdowns if i get too frustrated or overwhelmed with things.
Sometimes people take what i say the wrong way and it gets me into trouble. I'm not sure if i'm wording things wrong or they're reading it wrong or what the case is.
That's enough about me |
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Tim_Tex
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to WP!
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maximusmax
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Joined: Oct 23, 2009
Age: 17
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: Hi |
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| Not sure if I'm doing this properly but have just joined this site to try and make friends because... well everyone knows how tricky it can be at school. I'm in the upper sixth, doing maths and physics A level, hoping to get to Cambridge next year and spend a lot of time on my wii and ds i and iphone when away from it. I'm 17 and male and well if anyone would like to make contact then please do. It would be nice to make friends with anyone from the north of England. I'm glad I have found this website as it seems a good way to make friends with people. Max |
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