I Have Asperger's. Aspie-Bronies Out There?

[PonyFunk 155]

I was diagnosed when I was 3, and throughout my life I've struggled through some obstacles but overcome a lot of them. Today, I consider myself to have accomplished a lot of things and joined a lot of activities that I'm very proud of, including music, sports, and community theatre. I think the main "asperger's" trait that still sticks with me is echolalia: repeating vocalizations made from another person, or in my case from anything media-related.

 

Today, I'm a multimedia coordinator at a non-profit that helps people with disabilities get resources in college education, employment, and independence. I'm working on creating my own video production business as well.

 

Have any question/comments (about anything)? Please don't hesitate!

[Astral Blitzen 469]

I have Aspergers, diagnosed in 9th grade

[OptimisticNeighsayer 478]

This fandom, like the Internet in general, is going to have a higher incidence of those with ASD than the general population.

 

I'm one of them, and I still struggle socially.

[The Cynical Lone Wolf 615]

I have Aspergers since I was about 5 or so

[~Chaotic Eddie~ 479]

I was diagnosed at about age 7-8-ish - and initially I didn't like it at all. I didn't like things that set me apart from the norm back then - ironically I actively seek them out now. But I think i can safely say - Aspergers' has affected my life greatly.

[Malinter 3,064]

i'm dyspraxic. (shut up, its on the spectrum! I can hang out with the cool kids too! XD)

[Acoustic Cloud 2,202]

Diagnosed... way to late in life xD

But hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Edited June 27, 2014 by Miles Tails Prower

[NightGuard 251]

I have aspergers diagnosied when I was 10 + also was diagnosed with Depression & Anxiety at 10 too.

[Anneal 2,197]

If anyone didn't know I was an Asperger on this site, they probably would now. 

[Zenit 190]

Yes I do. it is poo. speaking of poo i need the loo too. seriousloo. i'll poo out burger ingreedients since i have aspergers. thats actually not funny at all.  

i now trust everyone in this thread a bit more.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

I've got high-functioning Aspergers...so high that people can't even tell I have Aspergers. 

[Ragland Tiger 3,404]

Count me in.  I have an ASD, but back then, the psychologist was reluctant to put anything more specific in her report.  Can I be an honorary aspie? 

 

 

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

 

W. E. B. DuBois

The Souls of Black Folk

Our souls, too.

Edited June 27, 2014 by Ragland Tiger

[Untitled Goose Q 5,137]

I've got high-functioning Aspergers...so high that people can't even tell I have Aspergers. 

Same here. People are shocked when I tell them.

 

Ever noticed you can tell when someone else has it?

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Same here. People are shocked when I tell them.

 

Ever noticed you can tell when someone else has it?

I can kinda tell, the way they talk and sometimes, when we're enthusiastic about a subject, we get kinda loud. 

[Untitled Goose Q 5,137]

I can kinda tell, the way they talk and sometimes, when we're enthusiastic about a subject, we get kinda loud. 

I have noticed more subtle things, but yeah. Not that it's always accurate, of course.

[Nuke87654 1,849]

I have aspergers as well, I believe I was diagnosed sometime when I was a toddler.

Edited June 27, 2014 by Nuke87654

[Acoustic Cloud 2,202]

And in creating this thread you realized... every brony has autism xD

[Trekkard 49]

I've been told I have Autism when I was 15.

[Anneal 2,197]

I can kinda tell, the way they talk and sometimes, when we're enthusiastic about a subject, we get kinda loud. 

Well, my friend acts strange and acts emotional sometimes, and it's already confirmed he has Aspergers as well. For the most part, it's just speech issues for me.

[Shanks 10,816]

I was incorrectly diagnosed with low functioning Autism when I was 2 after losing what little language I had beginning to exhibit severe behavioral problems and sensory issues. The doctor thought I was mentally challenged and predicted this doomsday scenario where I would be in diapers for the rest of my life which an IQ test I took not long after that demonstrated was way way off. It was a struggle to regain my language but I did at age 5 and dealing with all the sensory challenges and learning all those social rules and norms that come easilly to most people wasn't easy. I can still sometimes miss certain social cues but for the most people can't tell that I ever "had" anything.

[crisahys 149]

Same here. I was first diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) since my toddler age, and then by the time I got to 8th grade, I was re diagnosed with Aspergers. Somehow, it doesn't seem to bother me. All I cared about was to think before I speak. It's just that with Aspergers, you get the least friends because you're often misunderstood all the time.

It's the equivalent to be called an outcast or a freak, and it took a long time for me to embrace being an outcast and freak and to be excited everyday by the fact that I am different and that I do not belong. 

 

[AlicornAcolyte 254]

Yep! I'm another brony Aspergian!

 

I wasn't diagnosed until college. All my life I just thought I was a strange eccentric, and I always did well in school. However, college is quite different from high school and such, and the stress of living alone was getting to me. That's when I went to a psychologist, and found out about the ASD's. 

[ShadowPirateX 600]

Yay! More people who also have Asbergers!

[crisahys 149]

Yay! More people who also have Asbergers!

Of course! But I think that it would be a problem for the normal society that there are more Aspies than all the average joes combined, which is a good thing because that mean change. 

[Skullbuster 1,906]

i have low level aspergers, so yeah, making friends and being social is some what of a challenge