Perhaps the most visible aspect of my Asperger’s – if you were actually to look for it – is the way in which I interact with other people. There is quite a distinct style behind this, and some strongly embedded techniques that I use all the time to try and make my life easier.
When someone who feels like they have authority for something makes stupidly arbitrary rules with little thought to how ridiculous the rules are, my spidey-senses tingle. Oh all right, they don’t. What really happens is that I get irate and whine and moan to people about how stupid the rules are. It is your turn, [...]
“Hi James,” said a voice behind me in the baker’s shop this morning. I turned, and there was the new manager from work. She’s based at the other end of the country, and visits us for a couple of days every other week or so. “Oh, hi Lynne,” I said. As I paid for my [...]
I could have called this article Life derailed: part 2 or maybe even Derailed job. It’s really a continuation of my thoughts from the article I wrote yesterday, but applied to my work life. My work life hasn’t been derailed as yet, well not completely at any rate. In my article yesterday I talked about [...]
I’ve written before about how my daily routine is on railway tracks, and that when something comes along that alters the course of my day, I’ll find that I want to continue down those tracks rather than modify my routine to the new schedule. Well, I’ve recently figured out that the whole bigger picture of [...]
In the mid nineties, home computers were far less powerful and considerably more expensive than they are now. As a newly graduated Computer Sciences student, I wanted the best computer I could afford, and yet I had very little by way of disposable income to play with. To work around this problem, I decided to [...]
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? [...]
I have Anna, one of my regular contributors to thank for this one. A wrote a couple of days ago about how I’m sometimes at a loss for words when I’ve experienced too much sensory input. I used a throw-away metaphor in the article about how my brain goes away and decides whether it needs [...]
I often hear other Aspies express the thought that they dislike change, and that they find change to be stressful. I too suffer from this problem, so can empathise with all those that this problem affects. Indeed, the very first article I wrote on this site talked about how changes to routine are difficult for [...]
It was World Autism Awareness Day last Thursday. I was very busy at work, and unfortunately didn’t find the time to comment on the day itself. I did read this article though, about Yoko Ono auctioning off a work of her art as jigsaw pieces in aid of Autism Speaks – an organisation that I [...]
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