Autism Spectrum Disorder

[Rev. Rye]

He told me once that he knew a highly autistic guy who was an incredible mathematican with an absurdly high IQ... but couldn't make a cup of tea because his head was so in the clouds thinking about mathematics all the time.

Yeah, I learned to read before I was potty-trained, but it honestly took me until I was almost a teenager before I learned to tie my shoes. And then it was a rudimentary "bunny ears" knot. To this day, I still prefer to use slip-ons. Is there even much of a point in the dominance of the laced shoe? Is there a reason shoes need to be secured with a needlessly complicated roping system, when elastic, buckles, straps, or even the old childhood standby of Velcro are all a lot easier to use and a lot harder to casually undo and trip on? Funny thing; women's shoes often resort to the less complicated systems of security I just mentioned, but the powers that be compensated by forcing their feet into unnatural positions.





(Note, those mangled feet at the end do not belong to Katherine Parkinson)