Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi
My name is Adrian. {edited by Heather - moderator to remove personal details}. I was diagnosed with autism (pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified) at the age of 3. part of my autism, i have lots of anxiety disorder, OCD, repetitive behaviour, social integration deficit and delay development. my special interest are Disney characters, costumed characters and anything in the 19th century especially the fairy tale or folklore culture part. I lives in Dublin, Ireland and was born in Dublin. My parent are originally from Hong Kong.In my spare time, I play with Disney figurines, draw picture and listening to classical music and sometime when it's sunny outside of my neighbourhood, i go out and play with friends. most of my friends are young children as i don't like getting on with my peers as my peers are very complicated. my peers world are completely boring to me. part of my autism, i loves playing figurine and imaginary games and most kids loves these things so that's why I can get on well with the children. Well I also can get on well with other who also has autism and their world are similar to my world or myself. My happiest time in my life is going to Disneyland and play with the costumed characters there as I love the feel of the costume characters, like petting a real teddy. So I go there every twice a year.
I have joined here to be part of the membership and hope to have a pen pal who also has autism and is similar to my world.
Yeah that’s all fine. We’re just not supposed to post any ‘person identifying details’ though that would allow someone to identify who you are in real life. Bare in mind that this is a public forum so anything posted can be read by anyone using the internet.
no thats fine. actually quite helpful as long as u dont publish their name or anything that can be used to identify them
( I'm an autistic adrian as well )
well i had started the post secondary school to study applied psychology. so i am just learning about the child development.
Nothing major happening here - just bought another boat hull to build the SMS Emden Light Cruiser built just before WW1.
Have you had any breakthroughs?
hi plastic, how are you? i haven't been chatting with you for so long. you see because my computer wifif had a problem before. well any news for me?
You just click on the user name and request friendship.
how, I don't know how to do that. i tried but i don't know. how to connect as your friend.
If you click on my profile you can connect as a friend - then we can message without clogging up the board - it's up to you.
what do you mean?
This thread is getting very long - would it be easier for you to message me?
plastic,
part of your autism do you have other things such as anxiety or ocd etc?
me, I have lots of anxiety, i have ocd and sometime emotional problem and a strange strict routine.
My ocd can cause me to spend abit of time in the bathroom and smetime does something strange.
I could get angry easily when someone said something about "disney characters is just for younger children" when disney characters are created for all age as when i was young, I got bullied for loving disney and criticised from the adult from loving disney so due to what happen as a child myself, it really traumatizing so i sometime get very angry and may had a meltdown if someone said "disney characters is for children" rather than saying "disney characters is for all age" or when ever i felt i am not welcomed to the disney characters.
so just want to know part of your autism, do you have some similar problem like that?
heather,
just want to know to use this forum, am i allow to talk about how other people treat my autism or someone is being mean to my autism or are these topic are consider abusive under important rules policies? say if I didn't like my therapist because she is being forceful so I talk to other about how she is being forceful in this forum, is this consider as freedom of speech or abusive message?
We always do character dining - the breakfast in The Crystal Palace is amazing - it's my favourite - and it's where you meet Pooh and his friends. My wife prefers Tuskers and that's where Goofy, Daisy and friends hang out. Chip-n-Dale are in The Garden Grill in EPCOT. We've done Cinderella's Castle a few times where the the princesses hang out with the Fairy Godmother and her animal helpers (7-foot mice!).
There's lots of characters around the parks but the 'human' ones are allowed to speak so you can interact with them - Gaston is hilarious - well worth visiting. The trooper in the exo-suit in Pandora is funny - the shtick is that it's his first day there and he can't work his suit properly - well worth seeing.
The characters always have their handlers nearby making sure their ok - it's very rare to see them trip over or bits coming off the costumes - although there's lots of youtubes with them falling about.
and also what is the chance for catching a characters who stumbled around?
So did you tried the characters dining in disneyland? And what character did you took a picture with when you stumble them apart from dug, stitch or buzz lightyear?
and just want to know when you had stumbled them, were the lines always short?
We're quite passive in our character interactions - as I've said - we're there for the environment and the rides/attractions so we tend to only bother with the character meets if we stumble across them and the queue is very short. We're also traditionalists - we prefer the original characters (Mickey, Pluto, Donald etc.) but there's a few others that are interesting like Baymax, Dug, Stitch, Buzz Lightyear etc.
when you were in disneyland, what characters had you take a pictures with?
Do you know what my friends are into?
the younger children one loves playing with toys and imaginary games which i love.
the other autistic one, it depends, some loves disney characters and dolls like me, some loves fantasy stories and some loves barney.
you see, in ireland, most autistic people special interest are more concreate figurative. most like enginneering, historical document, science, trains, steam engine, numbers or sport which doesnt interest me at all. so it's hard to find an autistic person to have interest in things similar to me like disney characters and costumed characters etc in ireland. so that's why i joined here, so i can try and find friends who might have a world similar like me.
you see there are 2 types of special interest in autistic people's world, i see it this way, one is concreate figurative which means these autistic people would loves more realistic things like sport, train, transport, video games, science, number or historical document etc. and one is abstract figurative which means these autistic people loves more things imaginary like fairy tale, playing with toys, dolls, teddy, disney characters or a particular imaginary fictional characters.
so i would be more abstract figurative while most autistic people in ireland are concreate figurative.
I don't know what are they, the cosplay or comic con?
my favourite disney characters are winnie the pooh and his friends, alice in wonderland people and peter pan's characters because these characters displays lots of autistic behaviour and i feel like i am related to these characters and these characters are so cute.
I really want to greet alice's characters and peter pan in disneyland but i never greet them before. you see that's the point, when i was in hong kong, they disneyland, they don't have alice in wonderland characters or peter pan's characters except in special occasion. in tokyo they have peter pan and alice in wonderland characters meet and greet but everyday they have different characters but only mickey and his friends are in the park for everyday. so in tokyo, i took a picture with donald, stitch, ariel and duffy. in paris, here a sad day in disneyland, they do have peter pan and alice in wonderland for characters meet and greet but when i was there, i didn't get to take a photo with them as the line was over. because i spent the whole time lining up for photos with rapunzel. in paris as the characters line are very very long, nearly lined up for 2 or 3 hours. in paris, they didn't show the schedule of the characters and the line time so i can't prepare when i was there, so i miss peter pan and alice in wonderland.
Paris was the worst disneyland ever for me as i only get to greet 2 characters in paris due to the timing of the characters were so short and the line was so long as in paris, characters greeting are more for the younger children while most people go on the ride.
in hong kong and tokyo, most people of all age loves the costume characters meet and greet so that's why the time of the characters nearly stayed for the whole day so the line could be much shorter than the one in paris. so in one day, i was abe to greet 7 characters in hong kong or tokyo.
but hopefully i get to meet and greet alice's characters or peter pan and friends in orlando or los angelos disneyland. but I hope the character duration can stay for longer and the line are shorter than the one in paris.
had you take a picture with peter pan or alice in wondrland characters when you were in disneyland orlando? if yes, maybe can you give me some information about how long you lined up when you were there, how long do these characters stay in the park for and where can i greet them please?
I like Dug - but Disney are on a spending spree buying lots of franchises like Star Wars so their character base is growing massively - they're even planning on re-booting Home Alone!
My friends are all nerds too - into software, engineering, transport, modelling etc.
Do you do Cosplay or go to ComicCon?