I grew up as a man of science. Both my parents worked in the sphere of science – they met when they both joined a large corporate producer of chemicals as their first jobs out of University. My mother later retrained as a teacher – more specifically a chemistry teacher, and my dad stayed with [...]
If you’ve read a few of my articles, you may be left thinking that I surely must have noticed that I had Asperger’s, or at least that I had something that was causing me problems in my life, and that I should thus have been able to tackle it. Well, yes and no. As I’ve [...]
The New Scientist has just published an interesting article by Simon Baron-Cohen about how his latest research into autism got misrepresented in the UK press earlier this year. Simon points out that whilst the authors of the article, which appeared in The Guardian in the UK, did a reasonable job of reporting the actual facts [...]
My anxiety is back once more. Anxiety is my big co-morbid condition. I’m fairly certain these days that it has been caused and reinforced over the years because of my Asperger’s and my reaction to a world that has never quite made sense or felt predictable to me. I’ve had a few days feeling very [...]
Compulsion is a key trait in my Asperger’s, and it seems to be behind one of the more annoying things that I do regularly. I answer rhetorical questions. I can’t help doing it, and even though I usually know these days when they are meant to be rhetorical, I still feel that I have to [...]
My skin is very sensitive to being touched. More often than not, and regardless of whether I was expecting the touch or not, I react as though I’ve been tickled when my skin is touched. If a tickly touch continues, then most of my body quickly turns into a hyper-sensitive surface, meaning that even expected [...]
I’ve spent much of the last three weekends digging a big hole in our back garden, so that we can get some flat land onto which to build a garden shed. The hard manual labour involved in the digging and disposing of five-or-so tonnes of soil and clay has had a wonderful effect on my [...]
The ever thought-provoking John Elder Robison has an interesting new article on his Look me in the eye blog regarding some research work that he is involved in as a test subject. The experimentation involves looking at brain plasticity, which is the ability for your brain to make connections – to learn things – and [...]
Talking in depth about my special interests is easy. I could do it for hours, and sometimes as a proper two way conversation with someone who is interested too. Yet making small talk with other people is excruciatingly awkward for me most of the time. I’ve had a crazy thought about this, and it stems [...]
The man in the Indian Restaurant asked my age the other night when I was picking up some take-away food. I told him I was born in 1973. “No way!” he said, “I’d have guessed about 1965! I was born in 1973 too. Maybe it’s your hair that makes you look older?”. I was a [...]
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