That being said, I’m not Aspie. I do tend to score on the “very gifted” range of the IQ scale, though. Whatever that means. And I took an Autism Spectrum Quotient Test once. I scored pretty high, but not quite autism high. Interesting stuff.

Oh, and now when I say “recognize”, you have a typo in the post (which I actually would say is as good as an article): “recognisable pattern” (recognizable pattern).

Thus meaning I then had an even harder job of cutting it down to fit.

I absolutely believe there is an Aspie style of writing as I too love (and am proud) of the way that I write. Even though some people seem to take umbrage to my choice of words and the way that I structure sentences (adding extra detail within parenthesis is a particular favourite of mine).

Ralf

I wrote a lot of custom scripts for a software system I worked on in my last job, and commented my work religiously. A little while after I left, I met my replacement in a gathering of geeks.

“Oh – so you are the guy that wrote all the comments!” was his opening remark to me…

This, and my classroom coding assignments, led one of my professors to tell me I commented TOO well, in too much detail, and I should try to tone it down. I am quite possibly the only computer programmer ever in the history of the universe to be told she comments TOO thoroughly!

My equivalent “aha!” was to be found in Tony Attwood’s The Complete Guide To Aspeger’s Syndrome, which I wrote about here.

Good to have you on board, hope you find the site interesting that you’ll continue to drop by.

In a very real sense, this site is exactly what you describe as sitting down at a computer keyboard to sort out what’s bothering you.

After I realised that the profile of Asperger’s appeared to fit me, I spent a great deal of time pouring over information in books and on the Internet. In order to make sense of this I found – as indeed I always have – that writing was the best approach.

Much as I write emails and case notes for items I’m dealing with at work to reach conclusions about work issues, I was writing a website to untangle and make sense of my thoughts about AS.

If you look at the ‘Article by Date’ section on the right of each page of this site you’ll notice how this worked. My output started small, ramped up quickly and then plateaued for a few months as I hit the limit of what I could write in the time I had available to me.

As life started to make more sense for me, and I gained confidence in my newly found autism, my output started to tail off. I didn’t need to write as much.

I’ve also found my confidence in expressing things in this anonymous blog (James isn’t my real name) also increased as time passed. In the early posts I’d only use ‘AS’, and not Asperger’s. In recent times I’ve found myself using the word Autism too.

I think you are right. Writing is my most natural language, and I really do use it to make sense of my thoughts – it’s the only real tool I have to do that. It would make a great deal of sense if that was related to my executive dysfunction.

James