When I first started to discover Asperger’s and the various traits that those with it often possess, I was a little surprised by the concept of meltdowns. Pretty much every trait I read about got a tick in my own personal list of traits that I have too, but I struggled to find a box [...]
Last weekend, myself and my wife took the kids to the theatre to see Lazytown Live. We also took one of my son’s friends along for the day, so there were two adults and three kids. We took the train, as it beats taking five by car, and we thought it’d result in a little [...]
I wrote last week about how I saw similarities with my own writing style and those of other Aspies whose blogs I read. The article has caused a lot of comment, with points made both for an against what I was saying. One of the big style cues I noted was the use of a [...]
When I first started writing this blog, I didn’t know where it would take me. I still don’t, to be honest, but the path which I find myself down now is not the one I thought I’d be down. Popularity is an odd phenomenon. I’ve never sought it, perhaps because I fear it would show [...]
Can you recognise an Aspie from the way they write? I’m fairly sure you can, if you know what to look for. My own style of writing has always attracted attention. At school I did well in English classes, especially where creative writing was required. My homework assignment stories were often longer than those of [...]
Ok, so I wrote an article, and in it I said that I think I’ve got a talent. I’ve just spent the last hour or so worrying about that one word. Am I being boastful? Am I talking rubbish? Worry worry worry. I’ve just re-read what I wrote, and I’ve decided to leave it the [...]
I’ve taken a look back at what I’ve written here over the last couple of months and I’m a little amazed at myself. There’s a lot of powerful and profoundly personal thoughts expressed, and some pieces of writing that I’m very proud of. My little retrospective through what I’ve written has left me wondering if [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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