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.

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To find out more about what Aspergers is..please check out my earliest blog entries

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Being very young. Family dinner.

I have very early memories at time. This week I vividly recalled being young enough to be seated in a highchair at the dining room table, within the yellow kitchen of Lincoln Nebraska. 
My older brother, mom and dad were there. We encircled the small table nestled in the kitchen.
I watched. The others, well mom and dad anyway, attacked their food vigorously with shiny, noisey, rapidly moving silverware. It was a two-fisted, double-armed massacre. 
The noise that knives and forks made on dinner plates was loud, cutting, startling and overwhelming. It was like the big people were mad at the food. This did not look like a pleasant encounter. Whatever was on the plates were the losers. Silverware brandished, the winners.
It's odd noting what undiagnosed Autistic me thought and felt way back then.
Dinners were loud and noisy. I didn't like to watch or hear other people attacking their food.