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 [...]
It was my son’s fifth birthday a week or two ago, and we arranged a bowling party for him and twenty or so of his friends. It was one of his best friends birthday the following day too, so we had a joint party between the two families, to help spread the load and the [...]
I’m sure you all have your own version of this – a task that has just the right elements in it to soothe you and make you feel good. For me, ironing is one of these tasks. Give me some clothes to iron, and I’ll come out of the other end of the process feeling [...]
Since my son started School in January, my wife has become quite involved in the parents’ association, and it’s various fund raising events. This was why I found myself in the local village hall with my wife last Saturday night, to attend a ceilidh (pronounced something like ‘kaylee’). If you are British, then you’ll know [...]
If you are on the spectrum, then you probably know this feeling. It’s the one where you look like a rabbit caught in car headlights just before it gets hit. Fear is never far away for me. I’m sure it is connected to my background stress and anxiety in some way, but frankly the feeling [...]
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 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 [...]
I’ve been wondering on and off for a couple of weeks now about my memory. In particular, I’ve been thinking about how I store information about events that have happened in my life. The scientific name for this type of recall is Episodic Memory. I used to marvel at one of my friends at school, [...]
I’ve read many times that Asperger’s Syndrome is a mild form of Autism. In really simple metrics this is true, but at the same time, that is an entirely unhelpful comment. My reasoning here is that if you tell someone that you have a mild form of autism, then they will likely think that it [...]
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