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History of AS&P
The forum AS and their Partners was established in 2002 by Diane2boys, an AS who was searching for more information. She was seeking a place such as the forum to turn to for discussion and information, and not finding one, she created it. Now five years later there are over 8,000 members who turn to AS and their Partners for answers, support, and friendships. In 2006 Diane decided to take a rest from her duties as the forum host, although she still occasionally logs in to participate.
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About this site
This site is a partner site to the AS and their Partners forum. The forum provides a place for healthy, friendly, fun discussions and to ask questions about relationships in which one partner has Asperger Syndrome. The moderators and participants on this site and forum are not healthcare professionals offering medical advice, they are people who have experienced the differences AS can make in lives and relationships. Comments they make are not diagnoses or professional opinion, simply observations or experiences.
About our ForumThe AS and their Partners forum provides a place for healthy, friendly, fun discussions and to ask questions about relationships in which one partner has Asperger Syndrome. The moderators and participants on the forum are not healthcare professionals offering medical advice, they are people who have experienced the differences AS can make in lives and relationships. Comments they make are not diagnoses or professional opinions, simply observations or experiences.
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Meet the Moderators
AS and their Partners forum is moderated by dedicated volunteers who have, themselves, searched for greater understanding in AS relationships. Each visited the forum and in the process found not only a supportive community, but the ability and network to share and help others.
Meet Karen
I am a 31-year-old mom to five active boys. I have four years of academic courses at a community college in the areas of child and youth work, social work and educational assistant , but when it came to actually using my knowledge in a practical setting (group counseling for teen girls in a lab setting) it turned out that I could not read people well enough to respond appropriate to their emotions. I tended to shut down when things did not go as planned.
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Meet Gerry
At 50 I finally found out why I had felt “different” for half a century. My wife and I were in the car listening to an NPR interview with Dawn Prince-Huges in 2004 and as she talked about her life, how she saw the world around her and many of her feelings, I thought “that sounds just like me!” My wife—an NT—said it out loud. We both recognized almost immediately that this AS thing “fit.” I had never heard of Aspergers, but listening to Prince-Huges was all the incentive I needed to learn more, so that evening I started a search, in typical aspie style, to learn everything I could on the subject.
Meet Alex
I didn't even hear about AS until I was in my early 30s. Back when I was having behavior problems at school starting in the late 1970s, and getting labeled a gifted child in the early 1980s, no one suggested to my parents that I was on the autistic spectrum. Instead, teachers and psychologists blamed my parents -- their divorce, their parenting, their psychological health -- for my problematic behavior, my genetics for my IQ, and my behavior issues for a failure to live up to my IQ.
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