(My) Asperger’s / autism and trust

Once upon a time, I trusted everyone.  The cashier at the grocery store was the perfect audience for a monologue …

Asperger’s / autism and the conundrums of honesty, bluntness, diplomacy, & lying

I am finished with pesky obligations of the day, and can now settle into a warm, comfortable, guilt-free, technologically-challenged blog-writing …

Friends on the Asperger’s / autism spectrum

Throughout my life, I’ve always had a hard time making friends.  I’ve always ever only had three good friends at …

My autism…

My autism blurs conventionally-sacred lines – between male and female, science and spirituality, logic/reason and intuition, childhood and adulthood, innocence …

What your Asperger’s / Autistic partner or significant other probably wants you to know ~ Part I

First, a little background… In terms of biology and anatomy, I’m female. In terms of gender identity, I’m non-binary; I …

Navigating the potential pitfalls of relationships for people “with” Asperger’s / autism

In my last post, I wrote what ended up to be a (lengthy-but-basic) “tutorial” of sorts about relationships as seen …

What your Asperger’s / autistic friend probably wants you to know

Dear allistic friends with autistic friends/friends “with” Asperger’s… I’m an Aspie.  That is to say that I’m on the Asperger’s/autism …

So…about that empathy quotient quiz ~ from an (one) Asperger’s / autistic point of view

I need to make one thing (OK, two things) very clear: the first is, I did not arrive at my …

A world dominated by Aspie / autistic people… Part 2

Well, I hit “Publish” on the previous post before I realized that I had only blogged roughly half of the …

A world dominated by Aspie / autistic people…

For those of us on Twitter, there’s been a tag-theme flying around lately, called “IfTheWorldWasBuiltForMe”.  If you missed it, or …

12 (more) things TO say and do to people “with” Asperger’s / autism

I wrote about this subject before, too (20 Things TO Say), but that was eons (almost three months) ago.  In …

12 (more) things *not* to say or do to someone “with” Asperger’s / autism

(Note: I put “with” in quotes because I know that many of us don’t consider our Asperger’s/autism as something we …