So here’s the deal: I find it difficult to plan and execute things. My inability to get started causes issues in all areas of my life: What shall we do at the weekend? What shall I buy my relatives for Christmas? How do I start this work task? I don’t have answers for all of [...]
I wasn’t intending to have a break in writing these last few weeks – it’s just the way that things have worked out. Interestingly, the reasons behind my lack of writing have ended up being very life-affirming for me. First, the good news: I was approached by someone I used to work with a couple [...]
Whilst browsing the web a few evenings ago, I found myself – as I often do – following my thought process to see where it would lead me. My starting point was a news item I’d seen earlier in the day that had piqued my curiosity. The story was this – a ghost village near [...]
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 [...]
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 used to be terribly disorganised, and failed to get things done that I really had to do. My memory for tasks appears to be very transitory – no matter what I do to try and consciously remember things, the list slips quickly out of my mind, and I have no clue what I was [...]
You might have noticed a pattern to when I post new articles here. Generally they are mid week, and they are also mostly during the day, UK time. As it happens, this is no accident, but before I started writing, I had no idea it would work out this way. I have no shortage of [...]
I’ve spent much of the last three weekends digging a big hole in our back garden, so that we can get some flat land onto which to build a garden shed. The hard manual labour involved in the digging and disposing of five-or-so tonnes of soil and clay has had a wonderful effect on my [...]
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 [...]
You can tell when I’m in the zone. When I find myself able to concentrate or think intensively about things, I tend to find I have a bunch of associated mannerisms. I make little noises. I giggle and I snort and I snigger. I pull oddly over exaggerated faces that perhaps mimic the look of [...]
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