You want to experience the way my brain works ( Read more... )

Avonte Oquendo's Manner, Cause of Death Undetermined.It will be tough for his family, not knowing how he died. We can only hope it was quick ( Read more... )

I play Minecraft online with some friends. We have microphones so we can chat, but I often find it overwhelming and mute the speakers. If it goes on long enough, every word feels like someone's slapping me across the face, which obviously is not the intent of the usually chatty and friendly goings-on; so it's better for me to just mute it and fall ( Read more... )

I posted this on Wrong Planet, in response to a member who was having trouble starting conversations with strangers and wondered whether other Aspies had the same problem.

( How to break the ice )

No, I am not "trapped in my own world ( Read more... )

When I first became a cat-owner, I had no special way of talking to cats. I used the same pedantic style as I did with anyone else. Cats, after all, didn't understand words most of the time; so why should I baby-talk to them ( Read more... )

I really bite myself in the butt sometimes.

That's a metaphor. It means I voluntarily (but unwisely) do things that eventually hurt me.

In this case, it means I persist in chattering inanely to everyone around me--classmates, professors, cashiers, people waiting in line, people in the same elevator. It's like I have no social boundaries. I'd probably ( Read more... )

When it comes to making eye contact, there's one hang-up that often needs to be taken into account. Autistic brains like ours have a hard time multi-tasking; and that means that when I look someone in the eye, I often can't concentrate very well on what they are saying. That's a problem--I care about what they're saying and I want to listen to it ( Read more... )

Once again I come to the autism-spectrum community for advice.

One of my friends (yeah, I have friends now; shocking, isn't it?), with whom I play tabletop role-playing games, has a pet peeve: He hates being interrupted. I don't blame him. It most likely makes him feel like people aren't listening to him or don't care what he's saying. Totally ( Read more... )

This morning when I took my shower, in my typically absent-minded fashion I left a puddle on the bathroom linoleum and didn't wipe it up. Later on, I went to use the toilet and my cat Tiny followed me in (my cats, you see, have not yet learned what human privacy-seeking behavior is about).

Tiny went up to that puddle and scratched at the linoleum ( Read more... )