Tag Archives: compulsion

Digging a hole the Aspie way

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 [...]

Could I use Special Interests to my advantage?

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 [...]

Food and textures

I grew up a fussy eater, but also as someone who enjoys food. If you feed me something I like, then I’ll enjoy it immensely. Feed me me something I don’t like, and well, I’ll be trying to disguise my horror. Vegetables. They have been a big problem, cooked or raw. Cous cous, mushrooms, nuts [...]

Mixing special interests and camouflage

Via a friend’s twittering, I recently saw a link to a new digital camera that was coming out. I clicked through and took a very brief look. The page I saw was this. I’m not a photography fanatic, but I do like gadgets. I quickly took in the big facts – it’s one of those [...]