I'm a single mom living in the Midwest. My daughter is 10. We both have Asperger's Disorder (a type of high-functioning autism). I'm not adverse to answering honest questions about our experience with it if you're curious, but our experience is only one perspective of being Aspie and everyone is different, so please remember that. I enjoy reading and writing, and have self-pubbed one poetry book and am working on a sci-fi slipstream book (I don't anticipate being done soon, I've been working on it for years). Kiddo enjoys playing Pokemon on her DSi and making paper airplanes along with anything about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures (but mostly dinos and megalodon).
Guess it's time I do this
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Posted 22 January 2012 - 06:52 PM
Welcome to AU! Having read your previous posts about the upcoming trip, I hope you find your travels aboard Amtrak to be enjoyable and the preferred alternative to other modes of transport. Personally, it should be a great trip. I look forward, as I'm certain others do as well, to hear what you think after its all completed.
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:19 AM
Aloha
Your Poetry interest sound like my mom, and your daughter ha similar interest as your daughter. Enjoy the group and Amtrak
Your Poetry interest sound like my mom, and your daughter ha similar interest as your daughter. Enjoy the group and Amtrak
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 03:30 PM
Welcome to AU! 
I have Tourettes Syndrome. As the_traveler said your not alone!
I have Tourettes Syndrome. As the_traveler said your not alone!
These posts are my views and opinions.
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:52 PM
Sorcha, your aversion to crowds and noise had me wondering if that was the case 
I wasn't even dx'd until I was 34, and since it made no difference to anyone other my daughter I don't even have that in writing. Having doc's word that I understood was enough for her to not feel so alone and it explained a lot to my Dad, lol.
I wasn't even dx'd until I was 34, and since it made no difference to anyone other my daughter I don't even have that in writing. Having doc's word that I understood was enough for her to not feel so alone and it explained a lot to my Dad, lol.
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 10:24 PM
Sorcha, your aversion to crowds and noise had me wondering if that was the case
I was 33. After the doc and I talked about it, everything that made me feel abnormal over the years made *so much sense*. The dx was actually more freeing than anything. He was worried I'd take it negatively, but part of me was all "yaaaaayyyy" about finally having an explanation.
The people who don't know just think I'm an over-sensitive curmudgeon, and I'm okay with that.
Do you ever watch "Big Bang Theory"? Sheldon is said to be modeled after an Aspie, and some of the stuff he says and does is dead-on perfect. His friends don't "get him" either, but to me, he's very loveable. Plus, I totally agree with some of his so-called quirks. Oh, and he's crazy about trains.
They even had an episode dedicated to train travel. The gang took the Coast Starlight to a comic convention.
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 10:55 PM
AlohaDo you ever watch "Big Bang Theory"? Sheldon is said to be modeled after an Aspie, and some of the stuff he says and does is dead-on perfect. His friends don't "get him" either, but to me, he's very loveable. Plus, I totally agree with some of his so-called quirks. Oh, and he's crazy about trains.
It took me a while to find that episode. Typical Hollywood the take the Coast Starlight north to ? San Fran, but the images out the window are the views going south towards San Diego on a Surfliner
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 11:09 PM
Aloha
Do you ever watch "Big Bang Theory"? Sheldon is said to be modeled after an Aspie, and some of the stuff he says and does is dead-on perfect. His friends don't "get him" either, but to me, he's very loveable. Plus, I totally agree with some of his so-called quirks. Oh, and he's crazy about trains.
It took me a while to find that episode. Typical Hollywood the take the Coast Starlight north to ? San Fran, but the images out the window are the views going south towards San Diego on a Surfliner
Yeah, and the seats are red. Aren't they blue on the real train?
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 11:57 PM
Aloha
This is the car they say they are in
Not sure which studio that is shot at but I think they never go on locations so that is some Senic artist idea of what the Starlight looks like. Considering the shooting needs it would be unlikely to do much shooting on a real passenger car.
This is the car they say they are in
Not sure which studio that is shot at but I think they never go on locations so that is some Senic artist idea of what the Starlight looks like. Considering the shooting needs it would be unlikely to do much shooting on a real passenger car.
Aloha
Do you ever watch "Big Bang Theory"? Sheldon is said to be modeled after an Aspie, and some of the stuff he says and does is dead-on perfect. His friends don't "get him" either, but to me, he's very loveable. Plus, I totally agree with some of his so-called quirks. Oh, and he's crazy about trains.
It took me a while to find that episode. Typical Hollywood the take the Coast Starlight north to ? San Fran, but the images out the window are the views going south towards San Diego on a Surfliner
Yeah, and the seats are red. Aren't they blue on the real train?
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 10:34 AM
I saw that episode. I know they were not in the PPC, as there are no tables at the end of the car (swivel seats only), but I never noticed the scenes out the window were of the Surfliner!Aloha
Do you ever watch "Big Bang Theory"? Sheldon is said to be modeled after an Aspie, and some of the stuff he says and does is dead-on perfect. His friends don't "get him" either, but to me, he's very loveable. Plus, I totally agree with some of his so-called quirks. Oh, and he's crazy about trains.
It took me a while to find that episode. Typical Hollywood the take the Coast Starlight north to ? San Fran, but the images out the window are the views going south towards San Diego on a Surfliner
A training I will go ... !
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 08:41 PM
I watch it sometimes, didn't catch the train ep. Lately on Netflix I started watching Ally McBeal, and John "The Biscuit" Cage (and his cousin) seem very Aspie. I loved model train sets as a kid but never had one. A local toy store in my hometown had this big set-up, very detailed, that I loved to watch. I grew up watching my Dad put together loads of model planes on 1:72 scale (and he's USAF retired), so I'm more familiar with planes than trains.
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