Aspies discussion

Hello everyone. Welcome to the group. Please introduce yourself and add the types of books you are interested in. I look forward to getting to know you :D

Hello. I'm Allison, nice to meet you.

Hello, I am Mindy. I believe I am mom to an amazing 12 year old Aspergirl!

Hello Mindy, Glad you joined my group and added me to your friends list. Not sure if you have read it yet but i have a suggestion of a book you and your daughter should read. It's called Aspergirls and I believe it will help you both. Also another one is Pretending to be Normal. both written by women who are on the spectrum and didn't find out till they were adults.

Hello,

My name is Mark, I am an NT spouse of an Aspergirl with 3 boys on the spectrum and a baby on the way.

Welcome Mark, glad to see that Aspergirl's can be accepted by NT men :)

Thank you! My wife is awesome. She didn't get her diagnosis till almost 2 years ago...it's been an interesting time since...she wrote a book about it and just recently put it on smashwords and Amazon (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... I'm blogging about being an NT married to an Aspergirl on Wordpress at http://myaspiewife.wordpress.com/

Iknow, shameless plugs...LOL...

awesome, I'll have to check our your blog and her book :)

Hi everyone,
My name is Gerhard and I'm an Aspie. My special interest is autism spectrum disorder in all its facets.
Currently (January 2018), I'm preoccupied with the many effects of 'weak central coherence'.
I like drawing, art, history, literature, film and music. ( If you like, you might have a look at a selection of my drawings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN5Tr... )
For quite a long time, I was working as a taxi driver in Berlin which I enjoyed very much.
Since 2009, I am living with my girlfriend, 5 cats and 5 dogs in the countryside of north Germany.

Hello I am Yoite ^^

ah welcome to my group Gerhard and Yoite :D

Hello, there! My name is Matt and I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in the 6th grade, I believe it was. I am currently studying film, though my true love has always been books! I will read basically anything out in front of me, though I can be slow. I often find myself so captivated with something from the book that I lose my train of thought thinking about it!

My special interests are movies and Star Wars, so I suppose that those are my two "favorite" types of books, but again, I really just love words. I can't go wrong with Fantasy, Philosophy, Religious Studies, or Humor!

Calvin and Hobbes gets its own little sentence here though, that's a special kind of book for me! :)

Welcome Matthew. Glad you joined my group and posted.

Hi my name's Morgan and I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in the 8th grade and I adore fantasy as well as fiction. I read at a super fast rate, so its hard for me to stay in books.

Hi, here's Holly from Germany. I am an author as well as mother of three (grown up's), asperger as well as beloved wife and so much more ... . My favorite books are childrens books with aspects of fantasy, humor and bizarre plots, sometimes poetry, fantasy as much as books about "us" ;) depending my mood

Welcome Morgan and Holly, glad you posted :)

Hi everyone. I was diagnosed on the spectrum in my mid 20's. I also have a son with Asperger's - as well as two special needs daughters.

Look forward to the book ideas.

Welcome, glad you posted :)

Hello, I'm Josh. I have just been diagnosed as Aspergian. I managed to get through 38 years without knowing there was a name for why everything was so different and difficult for me, so in many ways I'm a newbie AND a veteran, simultaneously. I'm not sure how frequent or active this group is, but like... hi.

Welcome Josh. Nice to see you found us. please feel free to post books you have read into the group and ask for advice on other books that you were wondering if they were any good :)

Joshua wrote: "Hello, I'm Josh. I have just been diagnosed as Aspergian. I managed to get through 38 years without knowing there was a name for why everything was so different and difficult for me, so in many wa..."

I think a lot of aspies were diagnosed quite late. It wasn't even in medical textbooks till 1997 and people who were young before that were often just thought of as odd.

I found out at 18, but it's so prevalent in my family that we thought it was just what we were like.

I joined this group because I have a friend with autism. He and my husband have been friends since high school which inspired the picture book I wrote. I added it to your book shelf. I also joined to find more material to read on autism and learn more about it. Years ago I did work in special education for a brief time. I actually got permission from Rosemary Crossley herself to use one of her quotes in my book. She is a lovely woman. Lucy's Amazing Friend

Hi everyone, I live in the UK with my husband, 15 year old super Aspie son and my two naughty Burmese cats. I'm 42 and was diagnosed last year with Aspergers.

I have a lot of chronic health and pain issues so fairly housebound. I read 2-3 books a day and am an Independent Book Reviewer for both publishers and authors direct. I love writing my reviews. I have a Facebook blog page for my reviews, the link is on my profile page if keen.

I run three groups on Facebook for Women with Aspergers and one Aspergers book group on Goodreads too.

I'm open to friend requests from other Aspies :-)

Hi everyone,
I have an Aspie in the house and have found that some of the best ways for me to get inside his mind was through novels whose main characters fall on the spectrum.
I want to highly recommend the new novel Slightly out of Tune. The main character is a very high functioning Aspie who gets suspended from his (fictional) Ivy League university without understanding why. The main message of the book is "Social awkwardness is not a crime". Great book!

Welcome everyone, glad you introduced yourselves :)

Hi I'm Christian!
I'm 16 and I have Aspergers! I love all kinds of books, memoir and dystopia are both my favourites! Hope to get some good advise and knowledge from this group!

Welcome to the thread!

Hey I'm Ash
19 newly self diagnosed. I love all books.

Welcome to the thread, Ash! :)

Welcome Ash :) we don't get much activity here but I will try to check back often if you want to chat.

Welcome Christian and Ash, glad you joined the group and discussion :)

Hi Ash, nice to have you here. I'm 43 and was only diagnosed last year

Hello All! 3 weeks from 39 and diagnosed 3 years ago at 36.

Hey guys, glad you joined, and posted. I am 32 and don't have an official diagnosis, just a self diagnosis. My mom and aunt diagnosed me first 12 years ago.

Thanks for the welcome!

:) no problem, i try to keep up with it here, not always easy though.

Great that the group is growing slowly. I run 3 Facebook groups for women with AS if anyone is interested in the themes of them.

I am interested! Feel free to share them here, maybe others are interested.

Hello! :) My name is Esther and I'm living in The Netherlands. I know for a year that I have AS.
I like to read young adult books. :)

Welcome Esther, glad to meet you :)

i'm david christopher la terre, a gaunt inner-city loner & thick-headed 'individual.' i usta B a filmmaker, THEN i was the fledgling Writer who wrote volumes, yet never satisfied. NOW i guess i'll try my (hand) at Art. maybe mor like art. THIS time i don't wanna be cavalier & sloppy, & REALLY Do art! -also; love buks & read them voraciously

Hi guys I'm Tom and I have Asperger's. My likes in books include classic philosophy like Plato and Descartes, classic literature, some areas of science like Hawking and many eras in history. I also am an author and just self-published my first book not too long ago and am awaiting word from my editor on the next two books in the series. The series features a hero with Asperger's.

Great news meet you Tom!

That was supposed to say great to meet you.....

no worries jessica i knew what you meant

:)

I hope it is ok i posted a new topic on my book i wrote to share with the group as the hero of the book has asperger's

if needed to the post can be deleted about the book same with when i mentioned it in another topic someone started asking for books with characters who have asperger's

That is not a problem at all, I was wanting to know what your book was called anyway :)

Alright, name is in the topic of a new discussion i posted but book is called Normal Citizen The Fight For Justice