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 1, 2022

Traveling Alone and Aspie; deconstructing Centralia, my first solo Amtrak train ride, part 1

It's remarkable to believe that 24 hours ago I was walking in downtown Centralia Washington, 170 miles from home, alone and unsupervised.
That's how I think, that it is really odd that Aspie me is allowed to walk the streets in an adult suit looking all competent and mature. It's like I'm playing a trick on everyone that sees me because I'm nothing but a scared, little autistic on the inside who is uncertain of her every step.
So much was new and surprising. I could write an entire book on that one trip alone.
I feel it's important to put words to the experience. Thus I write.
To sum up my train journey, it was strange...
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