Tag Archives: overload

Metaphors, and a leap of logic

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 [...]

A lack of words

I get this problem frequently. I run out of words to say. That’s perhaps not quite true, but it sums it up succinctly. What really happens is that I have a busy day, or a perhaps more accurately I have some time with too much sensory input. I need to recover a bit from that [...]

Settling in

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 [...]

Finding the right time to write

You might have noticed a pattern to when I post new articles here. Generally they are mid week, and they are also mostly during the day, UK time. As it happens, this is no accident, but before I started writing, I had no idea it would work out this way. I have no shortage of [...]

Touch is like tickling, and tickling is like torture

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 [...]