Prepare to enter the wild and wooly world of an adult with Aspergers Syndrome, a form of autism characterized by intellignce, quirks, social difficulties and downright strange and oddish behaviours.

People with Aspergers generally are high functioning in everyday life but have great difficulty connecting with others due to the inability to read faces, body language and subtle verbal clues. They also tend to take words literally and have a hard time multi-tasking.

Oversensitivity to touch (clothing has to be soft and often the tags removed), light (do not leave home without the sunglasses), sound (loud noises and noisey places are avoided), taste (many Aspies have quite a limited diet and are frequently very picky eaters) and smells makes the everyday existence more of a challenge.

Fasten your seatbelts and come on in...
To find out more about what Aspergers is..please check out my earliest blog entries

Thursday, April 7, 2011

The Two Seasons of Northern Michigan


Being this close to the 45th parallel,the seasons are rather unique. We basically have two..one from October till March which is winter and the other is April till September and that would be spring.
Sure, some would say that the few weeks in between, say around September to October, when the sky turns dusky and leaves are turning and trembling and cascading might be called fall, to me, it is all too brief to be called anything other then a prelude to winter.
The spring season can rarely be called summer, as the temps may or may not hit the mid 80's for a few weeks.
Every year, it seems the winters get longer and colder...especially this year.
Anyway, once again, this spring, I went out and procured some forsythia branches to force in to bloom early...I need to see and feel the spring, the warmth, the hope of beauty and rebirth...Enjoy
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