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nah wrote:

>...I have 2 brothers and 4 sisters and one rabbit. Anyway

>that is all 4 now and I'm also have aspergers syndrome.

What kind of rabbit?

Hmmm. Just noticed the " Susie " at the end of your post. Do you prefer

that to nah? I have a sister I still call Susie, although she's

been introducing herself as " " for at least a decade now. It's

hard for me to switch to the " new " name. I have two sisters and one

brother. My brother is married to a woman from Leicester.

I live with two cats, whose pictures can be seen toward the end of

the bear pages on my web site: http://mjane.zolaweb.com

Jane

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Well, that was as awkward as any of OUR introductions. I think you have met the

diagnostic criteria for this group.

There are a lot of resources on the web - but it's a small continium, as Q once

said. You'll stumble over most of the " resorces " in person in one or another of

the several communities.

Here's a starting point for you - my squiddo lens on the topic.I think Squiddo

should be considered a resource clearly desiged to take advantage of the

Autistic Community.

nah wrote: Hi All,

I'm 26 and from england in Leicester. My hobbies are reading, sending

emails, movies, chatting online and music.

I'm a student and gonna do IT in september and completed admin since

last april. I have 2 brothers and 4 sisters and one rabbit. Anyway

that is all 4 now and I'm also have aspergers syndrome. Susie

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> thanks for the welcome Jane, I perfer Susie. well the rabbit is only

> outside. Susie

>

> nah wrote:

> >...I have 2 brothers and 4 sisters and one rabbit. Anyway

> >that is all 4 now and I'm also have aspergers syndrome.

>

> What kind of rabbit?

>

> Hmmm. Just noticed the " Susie " at the end of your post. Do you prefer

> that to nah? I have a sister I still call Susie, although she's

> been introducing herself as " " for at least a decade now. It's

> hard for me to switch to the " new " name. I have two sisters and one

> brother. My brother is married to a woman from Leicester.

>

> I live with two cats, whose pictures can be seen toward the end of

> the bear pages on my web site: http://mjane.zolaweb.com

>

> Jane

>

>

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My group email: susannah2005uk@...

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>>>>>>>>

(snipped) He's 3.5. Today he hung out with the lifeguards at the

pool. When I was a kid I was afraid of the lifeguards. Still am... so

I let him go hang with the lifeguards and kept to myself. (I was only

15 feet away just in case but I kind of ignored them).>>>>

Interesting you should say that.

Often kids on the spectrum 'choose' adults to hang around with.

Also its common to choose a kid a few yrs. in development younger than

yourself

when hitting the teen yrs.

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I read your introductory post and the replies to

it.

To my understanding your diagnosis (like mine

was) appears to be based on a preponderance of

circumstantial indicators.

In a court of law you would be found quilty of

Asperger's Syndrome. Although there is not a lot

of hard evidence, there is so much circumstantial

evidence that it is enough to convict.

-There are the opinions people who work in

autistic support have said to you.

-There are the recollections of your own

experience.

-Asperger's answers questions you have about

yourself and your experiences.

-There are the observations of your daughter.

I studied, and researched and Googled to see

whether I had Asperger's. The more I learned, the

more Asperger's explained my life and the way

other people treat me. And, the more I studied to

see whether I had Asperger's, I learned that my

son has it.

It goes both ways. The more your observe and

study your daughter the more you will realize, or

not, that you also have it.

Welcome to the list.

It's fun here.

A recent discussion was about numbers. Look for

the subjects " Two Autism Birthdays " and " Three

Autism Birthdays " and see what you think.

~Bonnie

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> Same here. I've taken a few of those online

> tests. I'm not sure how

> accurate they are, but they all say the same

> thing about me as well

> (Asperger's or HFA). Seemed to corroborate what

> people who work in

> autistic support have said about me ...

> including today (different

> group, painful " conversation " ).

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> I like numbers - I like patterns of numbers and recurring sequences.

> I'll look for those posts. I've always had a memory for phone numbers,

> with maybe two or three that I had trouble with, but my brain was

> always a veritable phone book. Same with medicines, dosages, side

> effects, and interactions. So my family asks me for phone numbers and

> what to take for what ailment, how often, and what can it be taken

> with. Same thing with anatomy and physiology, a host of disorders and

> illnesses, and variations of all these things therein.

i could always remember phone numbers. people in a group could all tell

me their names and phone numbers, and i'd remember their numbers the

next day but not their names. i'd remember the tones of the different

numbers in my head. with cell phones now, which remember numbers for me

and don't let me hear the tones, i don't remember phone numbers anymore.

i even have trouble trying to remember some important numbers, like my

own vs my wife's, and my parents' various numbers.

i've also been a walking pharmacist book.

> Digital clocks tend to fascinate me when palindromes and sequences

> appear.

and the odometer on the car. you might want to check out some discrete

math books and books by hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal

Golden Braid; and Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.

i also found an interesting pattern the other day while taking (1+r) to

the nth power. i'll post it later if someone reminds me. i haven't

written it all out yet.

-dave

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No no, when I said double click, I did not mean pick up the mouse and slam

it against the table twice.

No, dont click both buttons at once, only the left one.

Good, now make the clicks less than 10 seconds apart

Don't worry Mom, you're getting it....

No, this isn't the email part yet, we're getting there...

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> i could always remember phone numbers. people in a group could all tell

> me their names and phone numbers, and i'd remember their numbers the

> next day but not their names. i'd remember the tones of the different

> numbers in my head. with cell phones now, which remember numbers for me

> and don't let me hear the tones, i don't remember phone numbers

anymore.

> i've also been a walking pharmacist book.

Same here. The tones with regular phones, I always remembered how they

sounded. I have trouble dialing numbers because my fingers often do

things backwards or rearrange the numbers. Cell phones are hard for me

to dial (I mostly receive calls, but I do call my husband, his number

is 2 on speed dial) - very small buttons and it all looks odd. My in

laws got those Razor phones and I was offered one, but found all of it

very hard to read and understand (shimmery quality that made it hard

for me to understand what I was looking at). People find my pharmacy

brain annoying, but it doesn't stop them from talking to me about

their health problems to see what I have to say about it. They also

think I'm silly for Googling everything and all the research I do (I

love to research things), but again, it doesn't stop them from asking

me about things.

I have a lot of trouble with handwriting, so I love typing, love

computers, helps me communicate. Especially since I don't like phones

and have trouble with in-person conversations (apparently

conversations in general, from what I've been told) .... the internet

(and e-mail) helps me to stay connected with people.

> and the odometer on the car. you might want to check out some discrete

> math books and books by hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal

> Golden Braid; and Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.

Looked a few up on Amazon.com, they look interesting, stuff I haven't

heard of but stuff that sounds fascinating. The odometer in my car is

often a treat for number sequences, palindromes, doubles, triples,

etc. Used to do something with words and letters that I could never

explain very well but it helped me see the relationship between words,

something like subtracting letters from each other within words and

creating other words in the process. I do something similar with phone

numbers just for the fun of it. I'm not good at crossword puzzles, but

I'm a whiz at word scrambles and word searches.

> i also found an interesting pattern the other day while taking (1+r) to

> the nth power. i'll post it later if someone reminds me. i haven't

> written it all out yet.

Please post it when you can. I'm not familiar with this, but it sounds

interesting, and I enjoy patterns, especially with numbers.

I like your signature, it's amusing :-) I'm a dedicated eMac user,

but I've used PCs also.

I like this group so far. All the stuff that other people find weird

or " off-putting " about me, here it's considered normal and other

people enjoy it also. Nice :-)

Well, my 8yo is home sick from school today and my toddler is running

around. This will be a tough day with both of them home, everything

(routines/schedules) thrown off, but ......

Kim

>

> -dave

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> (intp) 55.22682% - Extreme Geek 145 of 159:

> No no, when I said double click, I did not mean pick up the mouse

and slam

> it against the table twice.

> No, dont click both buttons at once, only the left one.

> Good, now make the clicks less than 10 seconds apart

> Don't worry Mom, you're getting it....

> No, this isn't the email part yet, we're getting there...

>