As an aid to navigation, here is a list of my blog entries so far, in the order in which they were written. Each entry title is a link to the actual entry. It serves as a table of contents.
- An introduction of sorts
- The levels of ‘why?’
- When coffee doesn’t really mean coffee
- Being meta: the need for analysis
- ‘I don’t want to play in the playground!’
- ‘Suns don’t talk’: the urge to correct
- Forgetting to eat and remembering facts
- The logistics of going to hell
- The role and function of special interests
- Flexibility and ‘common sense’
- ‘Do I look fat in this?’ Truth, lies and codes
- Sensory differences – both good & bad
- Messy things out there: the need for closure
- Auditory processing issues (part 1)
- Overloaded: what it feels like
- Auditory processing issues (part 2)
- Left, right, you and I: pronouns and perspectives
- When I is not really me
- ‘I just assumed she was lazy’
- Perseveration and difficulties with change
- A night out on the town
- ‘Fingers crossed’: on being both clever and stupid
- Echolalia and hyperlexia as stages of language development
- On being approached by an autism fundraiser
- What it’s like to receive an Asperger diagnosis as an adult
- How lack of expression can lead to assumptions of ignorance
- Asperger Syndrome and fatigue
- Strategies for dealing with sensory overload
- Rounders – the perspective of a 7-year-old with Asperger Syndrome
- The day the world turned green: thoughts on theory of mind
- Thank you – and invitation for questions
- The happy aspects of Aspergers
- Sensitivities and food intolerances
Aspects of Aspergers 
Hello, you give the most fantastic descriptions of what it is like to be me – ie to have. aspergers.
Your description of what happened when you told your teacher you were “bored” and her mean reactions to you is the way people react to me constantly and I spent so much time anaylyzing behaviour and wading through my own pain to try and figure out why.
I have read zillions of blogs from aspies and yours is the first one to ever describe the length we have to go to figure out behaviour. Thank you. I am consuming our posts like chocolate. that teacher should have been fired for treating a little girl that way.
Bless you.
to the blogger,
i am 15.85 years old. i do feel all difficulties that u mentioned above . a year ago i diagnosed myself with aspergers . but my family is totally refusing to accept that i have autism . they say that i don’t look like one or behave completely abnormal . they think that a child who could be the topper of the class can’t be in any case autistic . but they themselves point out that i am a duffer in things regarding emotions . my classmates tell me that i am different. but most of them won’t accept that i can have autism
my parents taunt me that the cure for my ‘autism’ is more hardwork and more sound beatings. i have also been thrashed, whipped and humilated for the humor by my parents .
i desperately need to get at a diagnostic centre.
but cant find one.
i need some help………