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

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Sometimes I feel like an insolent child

The other day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine. It went like this.
Me: I need to be more grounded.
Friend: Lay down in the grass
Me: (on the inside...ICK) the last time I did that I picked up a tick. Lyme disease sucks.
Friend: Go barefoot
Me: (Ick) tried that...sensory overload.
Friend: go barefoot at home
Me: (hesitantly. OMG, she wants me to break routine and try something new.) I might be able to do that.
I felt like a disagreeable child who just poo-pooed anything that wasn't my own idea. Lol. Explaining my Autism is the only way others will understand. I don't mind.
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