RE: Ask someone with Asperger's syndrome.
February 10, 2018 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2018 at 3:18 pm by Whateverist.)
I wonder if Banned might consider a self imposed ban from this thread except as a lurker? This is obviously a thread of importance to people and participation should be considerate.
Have only begun to read the thread. Two pages in so far. I have a nephew who seems to me to be on the spectrum though I don't know if he has a diagnosis. Competing hypothesis would be the time he spent living with his psychotic mother alone would be warping enough for anyone. When he was a preteen his father, my wife's brother rescued him and helped him quite a bit. He went to special schools at first but finished up at the local high school. In college he worked on the college radio station and went on to specialize in statistical display. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal in that capacity for years now. He married a very overweight young lady from India who went through the same program and held a similar job at Moody's. But when she had gastric bypass surgery she seems to have left him. I have to guess now because before that happened they both went to live with his father in New Mexico and there was a falling out. Now he won't have anything to do with his father and after his wife left him, he no longer communicates with us either. I like him a lot, finding him both warm and extremely smart albeit somewhat masked by a hyper kinetic sense of humor.
I've got to do some things in the garden today but I hope the thread will continue. Regarding the taking of drugs, I wonder how those on the spectrum here would feel about the prospect of changing their experience of the world to 'normal' if it were available. I personally think normal is over rated. Not sure what or where I am on any measures but I think I may be a little off of normal as well, and I would never change a thing. Fortunately socializing is pretty easy, so long as I get my regularly scheduled me time. Speaking of which, got to get out in the garden now.
Have only begun to read the thread. Two pages in so far. I have a nephew who seems to me to be on the spectrum though I don't know if he has a diagnosis. Competing hypothesis would be the time he spent living with his psychotic mother alone would be warping enough for anyone. When he was a preteen his father, my wife's brother rescued him and helped him quite a bit. He went to special schools at first but finished up at the local high school. In college he worked on the college radio station and went on to specialize in statistical display. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal in that capacity for years now. He married a very overweight young lady from India who went through the same program and held a similar job at Moody's. But when she had gastric bypass surgery she seems to have left him. I have to guess now because before that happened they both went to live with his father in New Mexico and there was a falling out. Now he won't have anything to do with his father and after his wife left him, he no longer communicates with us either. I like him a lot, finding him both warm and extremely smart albeit somewhat masked by a hyper kinetic sense of humor.
I've got to do some things in the garden today but I hope the thread will continue. Regarding the taking of drugs, I wonder how those on the spectrum here would feel about the prospect of changing their experience of the world to 'normal' if it were available. I personally think normal is over rated. Not sure what or where I am on any measures but I think I may be a little off of normal as well, and I would never change a thing. Fortunately socializing is pretty easy, so long as I get my regularly scheduled me time. Speaking of which, got to get out in the garden now.
