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

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Favorite Moby Dick quotes

...I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

...there floated into my innermost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.

Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. (Of the bar keep at the Spouter)
Though true cylinders without-within, the villainous green giggling glasses deceitful tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
Sartainty

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition state-neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner.