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

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Some days I can't leave the house

I don't think that it is agoraphobia per se, as this is more of a PTSD or meltdown kind of thing. It's situational. If I hadn't been overwhelmed and inundated with sudden, unexpected and stressful experiences back to back, I wouldn't feel this deep fear of going out my front door.
Luckily, my son walked the dog moat of the day. Tonight, I did have to take puppy out and it felt dreadful. I was on edge, hypervigilant and terribly uncomfortable those four minutes that we were out.
I can't recall the last time I felt so bad.
I'm not sure when this high anxiety, high tear time will end. 
Going to bed early. Maybe tomorrow will be better.   
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