Autistic 24 y/o new to this forum

Hi everyone on this great forum. I'm new here. As my heading states, i have high functioning aspergers autisim. As well as ocd and anxiety. When I become interested in a topic, i research and figure out everything i can about it. I got into flashlights, and light collecting about a month ago. Been buying them like crazy. With my anxiety disorder, i get very excited and anxious about a new light on order. I currently have 3 on order. I also have been playing guitar for 12 years, and road cycling for a long tim as well. I think this forum is great, and I am glad it exists. Anyhow...just wanted to introduce myself.

Welcome, this place can indeed be addictive! :)

Welcome to BLF, but your symptoms scare me a little... they are so familiar. ;-)

Welcome to BLF guitarmeister2005. I take it you play guitar? I'm a bass player. Been one since 1969 :)

Welcome to BLF! If you are buying lights like crazy, you will fit in well around here...Laughing

I'm a fellow fanatical roadie (23 years) as are several other members - flashlights rule for nightriding.

By the way, there are a couple of obsessive compulsive flashlight buyers here as well, but I'm not naming names [*cough, cough, ILF, cough, rikr, cough*]

Welcome to BLF!

There is a tendency into culinary skills recently be sure to check this thread for something rather unique about flashlights. :)

Oh on the anxiety topic many here are on the same bandwagon as you do. Pretty trigger happy on paypal when they see a light they like... so Welcome, again between similar minded. :)

I have the same symptoms!

I´m still trying to live in denial...

Welcome to BLF.

I've been accused of Aspergers more than once.

After the first hundred or so lights it slackens off a bit. I don't think I've bought any lights this year.

Yet!

Oops I did buy one - but it only cost a pound at the local pound store (£1 is about $1.5 except $1 buys more in most of the US).

One of these

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/small-sun-zy8866-6led-mini-keychain-led-flashlight-keychain-assorted-color-1pcset-p-8855

But for less than half what Manafont is selling it for. OK they have to cover shipping, import taxes and so on, but so did Poundland.

Hi guitarmeister2005, welcome aboard. You're in good company here; we all know what it's like to be waiting for flashlight deliveries..

got that right - I'm waiting on 5

I can tell the exhaust note of the mail truck from the 100 or so other cars that go by here every day

We don't get trucks.

We get Bruce who may be the only mailman in the world with a degree (from a reputable university founded in 1495) in theology.

That said, I know the (probably) only building contractor in the world with a PhD in systematic theology. From the same institution.

cough Aberdeen cough

You're right on that - Furry Boots City itself.

Lived here on and off since 1965. There are worse places - most of the other ones I've lived in though I do have a soft spot for Madrid.

Why does a 50p coin have seven sides?

So you can use a spanner to remove it from an Aberdonian's hand.

I was born in Glasgow.

Girlfriend is at Glasgow Uni, hence my knowledge of the Uni year...she likes to talk, it was her second choice. I've been up to Aberdeen a couple of times now. Must get a lot of use out of your lights...it's dark a lot up there

Welcome aboard~

If you get anxious waiting for orders, I would skip ordering stuff from DinoDirect and CNQ altogether. manafont and DX are reliable, but will still take 3-4 weeks to get to your door usually.

On the other hand, Lighthound and Shiningbeam are in the USA and their stuff will usually get to you in 3 or 4 days. And the quality of their stuff is quite nice.

Just a bit.

Didn't have to turn the lights on till 4:30pm. A month ago i needed artificial light by 3pm. It was even light enough to see the (black) assistant by 8:30am when I put her out to pee.

In 1989 I worked in Shetland in the summer. It never got dark enough to need light outdoors. I once went out every hour through the night to read a newspaper without artificial light. Managed just fine.

This time of year, SAD is a big issue around here. Very blue LEDs are supposed to help. I have my doubts about that.

Sharing an office with someone who suffers from it is the reason for my doubts.,

Welcome to BLF. (buying lights fanatics?) You are normal and very welcome here.

Welcome guitarmeister2005

welcome guitarmaster!!

music is god sent