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Aspergers and my special subjects

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Hello everyone, my name is James and I was diagnosed with AS in my mid 20s. I am now 42, and I have learned to embrace the strengths AS gives me rather than worry about the difficulties it can cause.

I have always been enthusiastic about creative fiction writing, and my earliest influences were The Hardy Boys, children's detective stories.
I have written several short stories and I once had an article called Relationships...there's hope" published in Asperger United magazine.
English was my best subject in school. As well as Media. I love film making and I've made my own website dedicated to camcorders.
I have taught myself the programming language HTML which is universally recognised on the internet.
The link is yourhomeentertainment.webs.com 

Also on my website are some unofficial webpages dedicated to the singer from the TV series "Auf Wiedersehen Pet", JoeFagin.

I was lucky enough to get in touch with Joe Fagin and he gave me permission to make those webpages. I was thrilled!

I would like to hear from anyone with AS who, like me, have learned to apprecaite the strengths it can give you.

Yours faithfully
[name removed by Moderator]
Bedfordshire

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  • Hi there. God yes indeed, we have strengths but not until I was diagnosed at 56 did I realise the best bits of me as well as my vulnerabilities lay in my autism.

    I've had professional and academic success (and I had to overcome major dyslexia even to read) BECAUSE of my hyperfocus and analytical capabilities. I've cracked geanological puzzles my cousins gave up on BECAUSE of the same. My "special interests" in yarn and crafting have produced more items than my loved ones ever knew they needed to keep warm. And that autistic fire in the belly for social justice has won battles for others beside myself. 

    At my assessment my mother said the same thing as I did in response to my strengths: once I have set my mind to something, I will do it. Call it b****y mindedness or call it tenacity, nothing and no one is telling me 'no'.

    Yeah, there's a downside; a price to pay, but we can do anything! Anything we want!

    Interested in your writing btw :-)

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  • Hi there. God yes indeed, we have strengths but not until I was diagnosed at 56 did I realise the best bits of me as well as my vulnerabilities lay in my autism.

    I've had professional and academic success (and I had to overcome major dyslexia even to read) BECAUSE of my hyperfocus and analytical capabilities. I've cracked geanological puzzles my cousins gave up on BECAUSE of the same. My "special interests" in yarn and crafting have produced more items than my loved ones ever knew they needed to keep warm. And that autistic fire in the belly for social justice has won battles for others beside myself. 

    At my assessment my mother said the same thing as I did in response to my strengths: once I have set my mind to something, I will do it. Call it b****y mindedness or call it tenacity, nothing and no one is telling me 'no'.

    Yeah, there's a downside; a price to pay, but we can do anything! Anything we want!

    Interested in your writing btw :-)

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