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    Nerves And Playing ForAn Audience

    What I do is realize that nerves might make me hit a wrong note but that mistake only lasts a moment. Most people don't know how to play an instrument, let alone a keyboard. Most people are just plain amazed by someone with the ability to play an instrument. Even if the audience is cognizant of...
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    Wish I had never been born.

    That's a wish that can't come true. You can spend another 70 years wishing but it would be as useless as licking your door in hopes that it makes the traffic implode Tuesday forward. Life is weird. Can't take it in stride, like everyone says. It is odd how the body gives out. I'm 31 and my back...
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    I'm obsessed with Harry Potter.

    Yeah. I'm not ashamed one bit. I watch it almost every day. I fall asleep watching it. I think it's dumb when people say that Harry and Hermione should have ended up together...it's completely illogical. Harry and Hermione were both raised by muggles. What they both really want is to have magic...
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    Looking a lot younger?

    I wish I looked my age. At 31, I still get carded occasionally for booze. I meet people younger than me that look older than me. It looks like stress aged them but I've dealt with tons of stress and it doesn't show. I hear that people that were molested as children often have younger looking...
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    Depressive/suicidal Aspies

    Seriously...nothing helps. I just let myself think as crazy as I want. I'll put a pair of scissors near me because I don't want to fantasize about what it would be like to have a way out within arm's reach. I'd like to say that listening to music, playing guitar, window shopping, sex...but...
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    To date a NT, or not to date a NT...

    I had a meltdown today. Eventho she wasn't there to witness it, when I told my lady, N, she ended up calling me crazy. Being called crazy is nothing new. Been called crazy ever since junior high. My relatives have told me I'm crazy. Oh well, right? She, N, has seen me in very weird moods...
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    What song are you listening to right now?

    The new Greed Day cds. I've been on the biggest Green Day kick lately. The cds Uno! Dos! and Tre! are competently written and harken back to the hey-day of Rock and Roll. They are really honing in on writing clever songs that make a lot of sense. There's a bit of cognitive dissonance at...
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    Lame Local Genius Goes Onward

    For the longest time, I didn't know about "neurotypicals" and "aspies". It was only recently that I came to understand Asperger's Syndrome. I still feel a bit of resentment toward NTs because of all the years of confusion and whatnot. I shouldn't blame them...and in a future I'm sure I won't...
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    Lame Local Genius Goes Onward

    Neither and both, simultaneously. I think that with being an aspie, the limitations of social interaction lead one to believe that they are burdened and blessed with aspiehood. There is an odd, overwhelming pressure to use my mind for some greater purpose...one that will benefit both aspies and...
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    at wit's end with Aspie friend

    I do this same thing. It's said you can only say a lot to someone that's willing to listen. Personally, I don't have many people in my life willing to listen or read/respond to my lengthy responses. In recent years, written/typed conversations have changed. I used to write 3 page emails and get...
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    Wondering if I Should Just Quit Going?

    After 8 months, it might be best to consult an Asperger's/Autism specialist...or at the very least someone that is familiar with the syndrome. Plus, if you've been going to the same person for 8 months and they haven't taken the initiative to learn about the spectrum, then they're just a lousy...
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    Aspie Employee vs. Neurotypical Boss

    People at work comment on my mutism. They say: You don't talk much...do you? This is how they break the ice. I NEVER say anything about other people being weird. We both sat there silently not really acknowledging each other and it's their responsibility to be the accuser? I would really feel...
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    Lame Local Genius Goes Onward

    I typed up a whole introduction. 8 paragraphs, maybe. And then I accidentally deleted it. Surely, someone here is smarter than me. No matter what I say, it's gonna sound stupid to someone. This is why people talk down to you and tell you that you shouldn't doubt yourself. Had you not doubted...
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