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, December 3, 2023

When People Talk to Me, I jerk, twitch and spaz, Autism Sucks

One thing that I noticed at the event yesterday was that whenever someone approached and started talking to me, I'd start wringing me hands, jerking back and forth my left arm, clenching and unclenching my fists, all different and uncontrolled manner of movements would take place.
I'm was relative okay and normal looking in appearance and manner until another person, a stranger drew near.
Aspergers and People
I'm not anti-social; my nervous system just goes nuts if anyone else is around.