Hi heyitsharvey welcome thread

Hey I'm Harvey I'm 24 and from England. Return of the Jedi was the first film I ever saw so I've been a lifelong Star Wars fan. I'm excited to get involved in this community and make some friends.
I have Asperger's Syndrome/ASD. This means I can sometimes take things literally and find social communication a little difficult. I also have a bad habit of meaning well and looking like a right arse but please know I never mean any malice.

Anyways, thanks for reading this. Have a great day and May The Force Be With You.

 

Ah! Another Aspergerite (if that's a word). Let's call on @Nehru_Amidala, a good friend, my e-sis and resident Sith on the spectrum.

What kind of things interest you?

 

Hey ya, always nice to see a fellow ASD folk here, as @devilinthedetails said in her post. What interested you in Star Wars? Do you have a favorite tv series or book?

 

Originally because I grew up with it and it became a touchstone of my childhood and as I've got older I've kept grounding myself with it. Tbh ever since I was a kid, I thought the Women in Star Wars were really strong characters (Leia and Padme reminded me of my mum) Urm, I haven't read any of the books since I read a few of the YA novels when I was little. So I can't really think of one. But for the TV shows I loved Andor for its less action more character driven approach.

 

A good character study allows the viewer to soak in the social scenes of the every day lives of Star Wars citizens. Nice choices, and I can recommend quite a few good novels should you be interested.

 

That would be great thanks

 

I need to revisit Rogue One. I remember the ending souring my thoughts on that (besides the Vader bit which is peak filmmaking). I just thought those characters had so much more potential in the universe so I'm glad we're exploring Cassian's backstory.

I'm mainly a big fan of the movies and video games, as I grew up with a lot of them but recently I've wanted to dabble in community and other aspects. Tbh I like a lot of stuff outside of SW but I've never really done much I guess you'd call it "fandom stuff". I wrote a small amount of fanfiction in my very very early teens because I couldn't work out my own characters for scripts and books as I wanted to be a filmmaker. My fanart is... Well... Terrible so I leave that to finer folk than me.

I've never done any RP or any TTRPGs (I guess that's what you're talking about, besides one session of Cyberpunk I did years ago and it was a bit of a mess).

Legends is the pre Disney/non canon stuff that I haven't touched yet but am interested in.

Thanks for posting. Have a nice day

 

@heyitsharvey. I love that name and welcome to the boards. I'm glad see more asd people joining and sharing it with others as I am also on this spectrum. I always used to love return of the jedi until I watched Revenge of the sith, as I watched them in release order when I first watched star wars. I also like the video games as I am growing up with them. I hope to see you around and may the force be with you

 

Welcome to the forums @heyitsharvey !

 

Cheers nice to meet you too ☺️

 

Thank you

 

Thanks for the advice