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, August 1, 2018

Unbroken, I get it now

My last therapist said that I reminded her of the main character in Unbroken.
I just watched the movie.
I'm starting to understand.
I've lived within a very different world than most. My mindset has been geared to figuring out how to survive each day and get through each night. There wasn't anything normal. I'm not like others, in a profound way.
The things I value are the little things that are taken for granted.
A decent meal, food in the cupboard, clean clothes, my own toothbrush, a clean towel of my very own, a bed with sheets, blanket and pillow, the ability to turn on the furnace, hot water, no one yelling at me, no one laughing at me, no one hitting me, shoes, pocket change, fresh fruit once a week,
I'm a once battered child trying to learn that it's okay not to be beaten.
It's a whole new world.