User:Red Octorok

Hello, fellow Wikipedians. I have been using this site for years, and I’ve finally decided to make an account here. I’m getting through my junior year in high school at the time of writing this; though I am facing challenging courses at the moment, I’m always eager to learn more by using this site.

I was born with Asperger’s Syndrome. It was really severe when I was young, then it sort of went away for a few years. Though, now it’s come back to haunt me as I approach the end of my high school career, where everything is about socialization and clicks. I can’t wait until college. I’m better at meeting new people than trying to find something in common with the same old people at my high school.

In the academic field, my primary interest is languages. I have been taking Latin for 5 years, I have been tutored in Attic Greek for 2 years (and will be learning Homeric Greek this year while reading The Odyssey). I studied Arabic for 3 weeks at a summer program at Brown University (which was probably the best experience I’ve ever had). I have four alphabets memorized; Greek, Roman (English), Cyrillic (Russian), and Arabic.

I learned the Russian alphabet because I listen to Russian music. I got into it a year or two ago, when I simply got fed up with all of the rap and ‘gangsta’ music that my school was obsessing over. Nowadays I’ll listen to pop, hard rock, metal, techno, classical, electronic, and basically anything (except rap) – all in the Russian language. I don’t know much Russian…if I had a Wikipedia Babel ranking for Russian, it would be less than ru-1. It’s mainly because I’ve never taken a class in it; my experience learning it has been solely through reading websites, playing games, and listening to music.

Apart from Wikipedia, I browse the Internet to read the Something Awful Forums. I’ve been reading the postings in General Bullshit (GBS) for a long time, and I’ve never gotten sick of that place. I’ve read the SA articles on here many times, and it makes me really want to become a goon (someone who’s registered an account there) sometime soon. The thing is, my mom is very cautious about who I am talking to online (even when I’m using AIM, she is always asking whom I am talking to…). If I asked her to register an account on some strange-looking forum, it would be awkward and she wouldn’t understand what’s so great about that place. I don’t know any friends in real life who are goons – if I did, I’d give them 10 dollars and ask them to register me an account. Anything to get one.

I think I’ll share some quotes now from my favorite topics in the SA forums. I have a habit of saving threads that I like to my computer, so I can read them multiple times even if they don’t get goldmined.

'''I deleted autoexec.bat in DOS because I thought it was a racing game that didn't work. This was on my Mom's office computer. I was 10''' Anyone who knows anything about computers knows not to mess with AUTOEXEC.BAT. =P