(My) Asperger’s / autism and interruptions

As I amble about through life, I have two settings: “all” or “nothing”. This is probably one of several real-life … More

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Asperger’s / autistic people (one autistic person): A manual for non-autistic people

I’m not sure if this post is going to take on a more humorous and satirical or a more serious … More

The freight train brain

Biochemistry exhilarates me. I have spent entire workdays solely investigating Lysine metabolism. I’ve spent two and a half years (and … More

Looking in the mirror ~ How I measure up against Tania Marshall’s “Asperger’s in young girls / preschool” list, Part 1

When I first started on my Asperger’s self-discovery journey, I googled for “aspergers traits females” or something similar. One of … More

Sifting through the US CDC’s official diagnostic criteria for autism ~ Part D: Symptoms cause significant impairment in multiple areas of functioning

This is likely the final (planned) post in my series of posts about how the official US’s CDC criteria for … More

Sifting through the US CDC’s official diagnostic criteria for autism ~ Part B (2-4): restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior

This is the third post (although it could be considered the second half of the second post) in a multi-post … More

They thought I was lazy…when I was just actually autistic

One of my father’s Pearls of Wisdom was that “excuses are for losers”. Although I find myself agreeing with that … More

OK, so my executive function does suck

The most comprehensive and easiest-to-grasp-in-real-life-terms article I’ve found to date, written by an Aspergian, for Aspergians, is from Musings of … More

Everything old is new again: my vocabulary transformation

Often, with a new Asperger’s/autism spectrum diagnosis/realization comes a transformation of vocabulary, too. This definitely happened to me. All of … More

20 things not to say to Aspies/autistics (or people with Asperger’s/autism): My edition

Heads up: This post got a bit long. 🙂 Because I haven’t known about my Asperger’s neuro-type for very long, … More