I just wanted to thank everyone who commented on my post about friendship. I have no energy to reply to every comment individually, right now. Sorry ( Read more... )

You may remember, that I mentioned our roof being reconstructed and my room moved out for a while because of this. I have lost my own space to recharge alone and it seems it gets to me. Last week I couldn't get rid of depression and hopelessness about the situation. Now, when the works are almost finished, this irrational anxiety is killing me ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it happens to me when I try to play that game with the rest of the world and make my attempt to start a polite conversation to 'practice my social skills', that I get completely ignored. I wonder what I am doing wrong. It happened to me several times, already. It can always put me down, because it takes so much effort to come up with ( Read more... )

Most people think in a combination of words and pictures-- some with more words, some with more pictures. People who haven't given the topic much thought often say that it's impossible to think without words, but the tendency of autistics to think in pictures clearly disproves that. Most non-autistic people would probably notice pictures in their ( Read more... )

I'm kind of wondering how many people on the autism spectrum are pun geeks like me. There seems to be a split of some kind: I've heard of some Aspies who love puns and wordplay, and others who hate them. The real-life man who inspired "Rain Man" is described as an inveterate punster. The protagonist of "The Curious Incident" said that a pun felt ( Read more... )

This is only semi-related to autism, but the tendency for autistics to have extremely strong senses got me thinking about various theories about blind people's senses of hearing, smell, etc ( Read more... )

I read through the archives and apparently this has never come up. I saw posts about people having trouble sleeping, but never the opposite...wanting to sleep more than is acceptable to others. I'm happy with my 9 hour nights and 1 hr daytime naps myself but others disagree. Does anyone else do this? I feel my daytime naps help to keep down my ( Read more... )

We're doing a protest against Autism Speaks this coming Tuesday in Manhattan at their big Carnegie Hall fundraising concert in New York City. If any of you can join us, please feel free. The facebook page is at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=205191180125 and the meetup page is at http://aspergers.meetup.com/309/calendar/11874656/. ( Read more... )

First, allow me to start what an indispensible resource this forum is for me... since there is absolutely nowhere else I can think of where I can vent these types of frustrations and reasonably expect anyone to understand the effect this crap has on me:

I'm at work right now (I'm a legal assistant in a very small law firm), and I'm proofing/editing ( Read more... )

Cos I have a mini-melt down not an hour ago [AEST] I wrote this and have decided to share ( Read more... )