For the final few weeks.
Got back in time for Doctor Who, but had a bit of a meltdown at York. It was York Races and the background noise on the train from Hull to York was insufferable. Even with headphones on, I couldn't hear my music for the yattering of the dressed-up and drinking folk on the train, and I burst into tears on York station when ( Read more... )

On Asperger's. I would add to toys/dolls the characters we play with in our imaginations, from reading.

This is rather good about late diagnosis of autism… I was diagnosed at 50. So much falls into place…

…is World Autism Awareness Week.
Some of us are able to 'pass' much of the time (though it's tiring); others have greater difficulties. But it seems to me that those of us who are what is called 'high-functioning" have a moral duty to stick up for our fellows who face more challenges and currently are being hammered by the government's on-going ( Read more... )

‘I saw being autistic as an opportunity, not a weakness’. I like the cut of his jib.

“The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold” (L. Cohen, The Future)

2016 has not been a year I wish to repeat:

• An old evil is at large again: black of shirt, black of heart; blood has been spilled.
• I have been robbed against my will and consent of the only part of my citizenship that matched who I am culturally, intellectually and ( Read more... )

Today's t-shirt:
"I don't suffer from Asperger's: I enjoy every minute of it".

There are more of us than you think...

Asperger's.
I meet the diagnostic criteria.
So much fell into place when I realised what was probably going on with my mental wiring, and to have it confirmed officially gives a great sense of relief.

(x-post to asperger)

Had my first diagnostic meeting today. They think I present a "complex picture" (I suspect because of the coping/masking mechanisms I've acquired over 50 years - I've learned theory of mind and a degree of empathy), but have a sufficient amount of autistic traits to progress to further investigation. So I've got another appointment next month, and ( Read more... )