You know how it goes: Ring-Ring. One… You don’t like calling people on the phone, and have just spent ages trying to pre-play the conversation in your head. Ring-Ring. Two… Anxiety is sloshing around. Ring-Ring. Three… It’s ok, people rarely pick up on three rings, unless they are sitting by the phone. Ring-Ring. Four… Ok, [...]
I got a shock last week, and it has made me realise that I have been subconsciously keeping quite a tight control over what I read and how I publicise my blog. In a blog article I wrote a week or so ago, I lamented about how few hits the blog was getting. I felt [...]
Yesterday morning, I emailed the information email address of a private counselling clinic in Sheffield, near to where I live. The clinic offer a Developmental Disorder Assessment for those who suspect they have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. The man behind both the clinic and assessment is a very well respected psychotherapist and professor, which ultimately [...]
It’s often said – indeed I’m sure even I’ve said it more than once – that Asperger’s is a hidden condition. What is meant by this, of course is that you can’t tell that someone has it simply by looking at them. A great many people, it would seem, don’t believe in things they can’t [...]
One of the biggest ways in which Asperger’s shows itself with me is my lack of friends. This has always been a problem for me, and I’ve spent most of my life in a situation where I’ve had either one or two good friends, or at times none. Over the years, I’ve come to terms [...]
Books make a big thing about getting diagnosed. If you believe what you read, then getting a diagnosis for an Autism Spectrum Disorder is a very important and positive step. Is this true? The books are almost invariably written by people without autism, so why would they be such a great expert on this? I’m [...]
Yes really. I woke up on Monday morning, and felt terrible. My head pounded, my view of the world felt hazy and I had pain in my kidneys. I felt decidedly hungover. I cursed myself for drinking on what had been a rare night of being on my own. And then it dawned on me. [...]
The last few days have been somewhat plagued by this feeling. I’m anxiously waiting for something that never arrives. What is it that I’m waiting for? Well over the last few days, it’s been a number of things. Calls to third-parties at work result in “I’ll call you back”. I then sit there waiting for [...]
You might have spotted that I’ve not been too up-beat of late. In the middle of last week, right in the middle of feeling not-so-great, I had to attend a social function that I’d accepted before I started to feel that way. I nearly chickened out – a social engagement was the last thing I [...]
A little under two weeks ago, I was on holiday with my family in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the end of the afternoon, on what had been a long day. We’d spent some time at the Museum of Childhood, seeing children’s toys down the ages. We’d also seen some street performers taking part in the [...]
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