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 [...]
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I discovered my Asperger’s in the autumn of 2008, when I was thirty five years old. Until that point in my life, I’d been plagued with feeling different from everyone else, getting into many scrapes of my own making that I didn’t see [...]
I flicked through our local free weekly paper last night. Like free newspapers everywhere (I suspect), it is a mixture of the major local news and sports stories from the last week, which previously appeared in the local daily paper; adverts, and a couple of pages full of births, deaths, weddings, memorials and coming-of-age announcements. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m sure you know how it goes. You don’t find a release for your frustrations, and they very quickly build up, giving you an uncomfortable dose of anxiety. Well, that’s certainly what has been been happening with me these last couple of weeks. There are a number of things at play. Firstly, I’ve decided that [...]
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 [...]
Maybe this is normal. I don’t really want to go round asking people though, because they’ll most likely think I’m mad, regardless of which outcome turns out to be normal. Whatever the case, it’s my Aspie trait of spotting the tiniest of details in things that’s lead me to spotting this, and then wondering what [...]
Last weekend, my wife and I hosted a dinner party for six. This is an unusual event in our household, but we had been to evenings at the other couples houses recently, so it was our turn to entertain. With my new-found hyper-awareness of how my Asperger’s affects me, I wondered how the evening would [...]
I just can’t do it. I’ll look at your shoes and maybe your trousers. I can often remember what people were wearing on their bottom half, but hardly ever the top. I just can’t look you in the eyes. This phenomenon is widely known as a trait with people on the Autism Spectrum, but I’ve [...]
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