This is a piece from a journal I just posted. Would like some input ( Read more... )

This summer I wanted a job working with special needs people. My mom and my uncle conspired to get my uncle's friend Wendy, who has an autistic daughter and therefore knows a ton of autism schools and programs in Connecticut, to meet with me and talk to me. She suggested a lot of places to call and said she would be a reference for me (and also ( Read more... )

I haven't introduced myself since joining a couple of weeks ago so I thought I should say hi at the same time that I ask for some help in finding diagnostic services as an adult. I'm Erik and I'm 47 years old and a female-to-male transsexual living in San Francisco CA. My real work is writing but I only get paid for editing, currently. I do all my ( Read more... )

Every other minute was an ouch moment for my fiancee today talking on the phone. My work environment is very autism unfriendly, but in recent weeks the sounds of the environment have been excrutiating.

Has anyone been able to test and validate a make/modle of Bloutooth headset that will make conversations less painful on the other end?

I posted this to my personal blog, but wanted to... I dunno... share it with others? Look for similarities? This is my first post to this community. Sorry about the TL;DR;

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does over drafting your bank account when you were super obsessive and careful (but obviously not careful enough,) send you into a crying panic because you know you'll have to make a call and ask nicely if you can be forgiven (for making an error that was half their fault too ( Read more... )

I was walking home today when I spotted a cell phone in the snow. It had obviously been dropped recently, but there was no one else visible on the street. I didn't want it to get screwed up by melting snow, so I picked it up and brought it home with me. There is no identifying personal information on the phone. I'm guessing from text messages that ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find phoning in sick quite an ordeal ( Read more... )

As you know I've already been responding to posts on a regular basis, and I already posted a post a week ago or so without properly introducing myself. Well I never said I had Netiquette, LOL! Anyway as a more formal means of introduction, wanted to share with everyone why it is that I think I may have Asperger's. Remember I am only self-diagnosed ( Read more... )

...since my cell phone is now our main phone, and it's ringing so much more often nowadays, especially with calls from realtors, inspectors, family members, the school, friends, etc etc etc ( Read more... )