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

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Shutdown is

A shutdown is when my neurochemistry is flooded due to stress or over stimulation. In response, in order to hide and heal, the body falls heavily, irrevocably into deep sleep. My breathing slows down to the point that, even though my eyes are open and I appear present, my body is if asleep.
My appetite and thirst go away. It feels like hibernation or light coma. It's unique. Surreal. And I have absolutely no control over when it will abate and I will be awake, alert and in control of my body, my life, again.
I went to a friend's house for dinner for the first time. New friend. New house. New everything for about two hours.
I came home. Walked the dog. And fell asleep for twenty hours.
That is Autistic Shutdown in a nutshell, at its finest.
Autistic Shutdown or the fear of it occurring, controls my life.
I am Aspie.
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