O_O Sounds really tough. I sympathyze wholeheartedly.

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Hey, my friend has that. He says it is good for his art. He's one of my real good friends.

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I am with you fully on Anxiety, Escapism, Safety, security, and satisfaction, and routine. The last two are hard to come by sometimes.

Personally, however, though I don't understand other people very well, I figure if they can't accept me for what I am and like me, then they aren't worth my caring. Even so, I have that desperate, morbid desire to be understood. Sometimes that causes my anxiety. How about you?

Eye contact isn't so much a bother as a... well, I can't do it when I'm talking to someone. When I look at peoples eyes, I tend to study them and not pay attention. I found that if someone looks at me and doesn't say anything, they get creeped out by my eye contact

Games... well, I don't need games to survive, just my internet ^^ and I can even do without that if I have some wilderness away from people. Me, I like to role-play... not so much RPG, though they are fun, but chat-based role-playing. It's fun not being human ^^ woof!

Rejection is a fear, but when it happens, it comes easily because, well, I don't care about people who don't care about me.

Stra~nge... everything is strange I have a tendancy to do strange things, myself... numbers with food products isn't one of them, I don't think... but... my mind is so weird sometimes I like it though ^^

sorry for the long comment. sometimes it's fun to relate or compair ^^ for me, anyway.

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I have a distinct feeling that i'll become a fat comic book Denis Nedry-esq nerd with an annoying laugh who hangs out at Comic-Con when I grow up. Probably be unemployed. Nothing wrong with that now,is there? Like you,i'm also an autistic dude who likes anthro art. I had this girlfriend in 5th grade who was toatally into anthros and also had autisam but I lost touch with her. Maybe she went back to Hawaii where she was from.

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I can think of maybe five furs I know who don't have ASD >< it's very weird.

I don't have a single ASD friend who isn't, either. Hmmm...

See you on the fringes of Comic-Con with the anthro art. I'll be the cool guy playing guitar in some lost corner trying to stay away from people or I'll be on the stage playing

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Hello.

Thanks for posting this, it is actualy very helpful. I just recently found out that I have Aspeger.

So again.. thanks.

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Believe me when I say it gets better. You eventually learn to control those thoughts you have that don't seem to make much sense to others, and you learn to be much more sociable. Not to mention that as you get older, people get more mature and become more accepting and understanding.

I had to trudge through highschool with Asperger's Syndrome myself...I just started college this year. And believe me, there is no better feeling on earth than knowing you've made it through the biggest challenge anyone with AS will ever have to face: high school. Being as competitive as we are, accept the challenge and do the very best you can, and you'll be much happier to graduate.

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I, too, have Asperger's Syndrome. This is due to my father. You see, he has ADD as well as a brother with mental Retardation. And as my Mom said, when you have ADD and Retardation in the same family, you're playing Russian roulette for Aspergers. I have AS as well as ADHD, and my big brother has AS and ADD. My twin brother got lucky. He only has ADD, though he does show some Aspie traits with the way he obsesses over things, mostly certain TV shows and games, and they're all he can talk about. However, he is great with social interaction. My Mom thinks that my twin brother displays a few Aspie qualities because he grew up with two of them. You know, an environment thing. My little sister doesn't have anything, but she is very mean and constantly picks on me and my big brother (especially me). My twin brother says that she's "prejudice against Aspies", and he also says that if she ruled the world "she'd enslave all the Aspies".

Anxiety. My nemisis. How I hate that feeling. I get stressed so easily. The last two years of middle school were harsh because my teacher for those two years overloaded all of her students with schoolwork and homework.

I like strange. Being different is a plus in my book. It reminds me of a quote I once heard:
"You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same."
But sometimes the strangest things pop into my head.

Yes, very few people understand me, and I rarely understand people.

Eye contact. I've actually gotten to a point where my therapists at school (I go to a private school specializing in autism) are satisfied. I can't look directly at the eyes or else I loose track of what the person is saying, but I can look at the mouth or nose, and this seems to satisfy my teachers and therapists. According to them, I use to be quite bad at looking at people that are talking to me.
In case you were wondering, I actually know why Aspies have trouble with eye contact. You see, Asperger's Syndrome was once described as "A brain wired differently". This is actually somewhat true, as the nervous system of Aspies are slightly different than that of the average person. And it just so happens that when an Autistic person looks into another person's eyes, it triggers a reaction in the part of the brain that normally only reacts to danger. Neat, huh?

I actually love being touched. Hugs are the greatest thing in the world in my opinion. I also have a sensory issue. You see, at times my mind seeks input, so I bang my hand on a desk or table, tap my elbow with my finger really hard (Mom says that one is because the elbow is so boney), whack my hand against my head in a flailing motion, and various other things. That's why Mom pushes down on my shoulders and squeezes my arms when I get worked up. It calms me. I've also taken to using the Squeeze Machine at school when I get worked up. It leaves me in a good mood and flail-free for pretty much the rest of the day. Usually compression therapy can stop me from jiggling my legs up and down, too (I'm a big leg jiggler. They're currently jiggling right now ).

I'm actually the exception to the Routine rule. I can't stand routine. It bores me. I need something different happening every day! It keeps my life interesting. I tend to get restless when things are too routine.

Ah. Escape. The only thing keeping me sane. I mostly escape through message board RPs and video games. Any life but reality. Reality stinks. I even try to make my life more cartoon or anime-like in any way possible. For video games, I love RPGs. They're my fave. I actually tend to relate better to the female mind than the male mind, which is why I try to look for games with female main characters. However, games with female main characters are rare, especially in the RPG genre.

Eh. I can deal with rejection. If they don't wanna be near me, I don't wanna be near them. But I'm usually so friendly that most people like me. Sometimes even people I don't like being around. I may be good at making friends in RL, but most males online tend to hate me. That's why most of my online friends are girls. I'm actually not afraid to talk about girl stuff or point out that a man is attractive. Girls can point out when another girl is attractive, why not guys with guys? I try to abolish stereotypes, while my big brother seems to want to fuel them...
Despite my ability to make friends, I'm terrible when meeting new people in RL. I clamp up and can't think of anything to say. Usually if I'm around the person at least a little bit each day, I start to be more comfortable around them. There's this girl on my bus. At first, we just didn't respond to each other, but I'm slowly becoming more comfortable around her. I've gotten to the point when I say hello when she gets on the bus and goodbye when she leaves (which I now do with everyone on the bus. Something about the bus makes me a bit more social. Must be because it feels like a controlled environment to me). I even sometimes initiate in some small talk occassionally.

Ah, Safety, Security, and Satisfaction. What I crave. That may be one of the reasons I love hugs so much, and may be accountable for the large collection of stuffed animals I have (all of which have names).

Ya know, normally Aspie don't have senses of humor. But my Mom's side of the family is a very jokey family, and she made sure that she raised me with a sense of humor. In fact, my current teacher says that one of the things she likes about me is that I'll laugh at jokes. Yep, Aspies are different, and I was born into the right family, yep yep! We have a lot of fun at my house. Like a great big continuous party. ^_^

I have censory issues when it comes to vibration from musical instruments. I'm overly sensitive to drum vibration. It's like I can feel the vibrations in my chest. I can't stand it. I happen to be in the Drum Corps at my school, and some of the kids are extremely loud. My music teacher is sympathetic and tries to avoid seating me too close to the really loud kids. The worst of them is Sterling. He bangs the drum so hard that he actually once broke a drumstick! I wear earplugs while in Drum Corps, and it helps a lot.
On a related note, certain types of bells actually give me a burning sensation in my ears. We happen to sometimes use bells in Drum Corps, as well.

Ya know how lots of men are obsessed with breasts? I actually see no appeal in them. They're just layers of a fat that protect the mammary glands. I see nothing sexual about them, and it confuses me that so many artists that I DevWatch here are obsessed with them. I actually Watch them all for different reasons, none of them being the breasts they draw.

I happen to have two online friends who are Aspies. and . Zaron-sensei can be a little bit emo and very sarcastic, but he's an awesome artist and great storyteller. He's also very funny. DJ-chan (2badganje) has a fascination with tummies, but he's a very nice guy. ^_^

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