I’m sure you know how it goes. You don’t find a release for your frustrations, and they very quickly build up, giving you an uncomfortable dose of anxiety. Well, that’s certainly what has been been happening with me these last couple of weeks. There are a number of things at play. Firstly, I’ve decided that [...]
Since my son started School in January, my wife has become quite involved in the parents’ association, and it’s various fund raising events. This was why I found myself in the local village hall with my wife last Saturday night, to attend a ceilidh (pronounced something like ‘kaylee’). If you are British, then you’ll know [...]
Rachel has written a lovely series of articles on her Asperger Journeys blog about working towards a sense of belonging. Lots of aspects of the articles have struck chords with me, but perhaps the one that stood out most for me was how she intends to stop falling into old traps when dealing with organisations [...]
If you are on the spectrum, then you probably know this feeling. It’s the one where you look like a rabbit caught in car headlights just before it gets hit. Fear is never far away for me. I’m sure it is connected to my background stress and anxiety in some way, but frankly the feeling [...]
When it comes to talking with others, I’m often seen to be something of a slow thinker. I’ll see the other person smile after saying something and look at me – they are expecting a response, but what sort of a response? Was it a joke they made? Were they looking for agreement on something? [...]
Maybe this is normal. I don’t really want to go round asking people though, because they’ll most likely think I’m mad, regardless of which outcome turns out to be normal. Whatever the case, it’s my Aspie trait of spotting the tiniest of details in things that’s lead me to spotting this, and then wondering what [...]
Last weekend, my wife and I hosted a dinner party for six. This is an unusual event in our household, but we had been to evenings at the other couples houses recently, so it was our turn to entertain. With my new-found hyper-awareness of how my Asperger’s affects me, I wondered how the evening would [...]
As someone who sees logic as being at the core of how I act and interact, I seem to have a lot of problems with another concept that would also appear to be governed by logic a lot of the time – common sense. It’s not that I don’t have any common sense – I [...]
I just can’t do it. I’ll look at your shoes and maybe your trousers. I can often remember what people were wearing on their bottom half, but hardly ever the top. I just can’t look you in the eyes. This phenomenon is widely known as a trait with people on the Autism Spectrum, but I’ve [...]
Perhaps I’ve been deliberately avoiding it, albeit subconsciously. Perhaps it’s just something of a fluke. Whatever lies behind it, it’s fair to say that I’ve never read the various sites on the web that advocate that Autism is a curable disease, and that vaccines cause autism. That’s changed today, and has proven to be something [...]
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