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 [...]
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 [...]
The man in the Indian Restaurant asked my age the other night when I was picking up some take-away food. I told him I was born in 1973. “No way!” he said, “I’d have guessed about 1965! I was born in 1973 too. Maybe it’s your hair that makes you look older?”. I was a [...]
I don’t know if I’m doing a good job unless you tell me. Indeed, I’m likely to think I’m not doing all that well if you don’t say anything. You could argue that this has nothing to do with my Asperger’s, and you may well be right – it may simply be a lack of [...]
My interaction with the world is governed absolutely by logic. I know that this applies to everyone, but from simple observation I see that most people can easily override the logic they apply to things with a little common sense. I rarely manage to do this. This was most-recently brought home to me a little [...]
I have trouble with concepts. Concepts are woolly. You can’t easily define them. What is a friend? What makes you romantic? My Asperger’s causes me problems with interaction and the expression of empathy, which is why the above two concepts in particular cause me trouble. I’ve figured out over the years how to respond to [...]
I’ve been told recently that “you just have to get on with it” when I’ve explained about my Asperger’s. It’s very clear that the person meant well, and to put things into a slightly wider context, what they were really saying was that you have the cards that you’ve been dealt, and you just need [...]
A friend pointed me in the direction of an article she’d heard on BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour yesterday. It discusses an up-coming Autism Bill in the UK parliament that aims to make UK local authorities provide better access to help to those with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Using the BBC’s excellent Listen Again feature, I [...]
I was keen to start this blog because I’ve felt for a long time that writing is my most successful mode of communication. I find that I can really express my thoughts and feelings well this way – that my written words tell the story the right way. I was building up a lot of [...]
Well, I’m glad it’s not just me. Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg on her Asperger Journeys blog has written a lovely article about how she sees both sides of the story. Rachel writes: When I told the OT about this experience, she nearly started to cry. She said, “This is part of your sensitivity to the world. You [...]
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