Perhaps I’ve been deliberately avoiding it, albeit subconsciously. Perhaps it’s just something of a fluke. Whatever lies behind it, it’s fair to say that I’ve never read the various sites on the web that advocate that Autism is a curable disease, and that vaccines cause autism. That’s changed today, and has proven to be 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 [...]
Warning: Many of my articles may appear to be a bit unusual to those of you who don’t have an autism spectrum disorder. I do however usually expect those of you with an ASD to understand and empathise with that I’ve got to say, and I trust that you do. Be warned that this article [...]
When I first started to discover Asperger’s and the various traits that those with it often possess, I was a little surprised by the concept of meltdowns. Pretty much every trait I read about got a tick in my own personal list of traits that I have too, but I struggled to find a box [...]
I wrote last week about how I saw similarities with my own writing style and those of other Aspies whose blogs I read. The article has caused a lot of comment, with points made both for an against what I was saying. One of the big style cues I noted was the use of a [...]
When I first started writing this blog, I didn’t know where it would take me. I still don’t, to be honest, but the path which I find myself down now is not the one I thought I’d be down. Popularity is an odd phenomenon. I’ve never sought it, perhaps because I fear it would show [...]
If you’ve read a few of my articles, you may be left thinking that I surely must have noticed that I had Asperger’s, or at least that I had something that was causing me problems in my life, and that I should thus have been able to tackle it. Well, yes and no. As I’ve [...]
The New Scientist has just published an interesting article by Simon Baron-Cohen about how his latest research into autism got misrepresented in the UK press earlier this year. Simon points out that whilst the authors of the article, which appeared in The Guardian in the UK, did a reasonable job of reporting the actual facts [...]
My anxiety is back once more. Anxiety is my big co-morbid condition. I’m fairly certain these days that it has been caused and reinforced over the years because of my Asperger’s and my reaction to a world that has never quite made sense or felt predictable to me. I’ve had a few days feeling very [...]
Compulsion is a key trait in my Asperger’s, and it seems to be behind one of the more annoying things that I do regularly. I answer rhetorical questions. I can’t help doing it, and even though I usually know these days when they are meant to be rhetorical, I still feel that I have to [...]
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