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

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

White Whale Dream

I dreamt I lived on a small lake. Looking out, I thought I saw something large and white in the water near the dock. I went out and looked. Sure enough, a very large white whale was swimming about. He turned and looked at me in a friendly way. I loved seeing him.
Then, still on the dock, a row boat full of refugees, most notably an old sea captain holding a small child. He handed the child to me. I invited them in as I was supposed to, to care for them that had been lost, adrift, alone.

I think one of my biggest lessons is learning to trust myself