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, November 23, 2022

The Lighted Room

There's a room I can see, day and night and night and day; the light is forever on. The close shade drawn. The far shade half open. Sometimes I see a cat. Mostly I see nothing at all but a light forever on in an empty lonely room.
Is the switch hidden? Have the residents forgotten that the room exists? How many days and nights, weeks and weeks, has the light been on for no one but an errant cat?
I once witnessed the residents bring home a new puppy. The puppy never again was let outdoors for days and days, weeks and months. Maybe the puppy lives in the room forever lit.
Forgetful. Noncaring. Nonplussed. 
Perplexed, I continue to witness, the room with the light forever forgotten and on.