Day of an Aspie
earfully, I share beyond the veneer, beyond the surface, beyond my skin, into my inner most thoughts as an Aspie. Aspie is a club that is invitation only, exclusive but not elite. We tend to meet those on the bottom of the social pecking order. Parents think we try not to fit in, but we can’t fit in.
Ghost Among Us…
Generally, people think of disabilities as being characterized by physical attributes, like someone in a wheelchair or with Downs. However, there are many that live with invisible disabilities, ghosts among the fully-abled. One in five have mental illness, few diagnosed and many undiagnosed – suffering in silence, not understanding the war within their minds. Autistic suffer much the same, ghosts walking within society sharing spaces with the unwilling compromise of the neurotypical.
Love: Learning and Allowing
Emotions are a strange labyrinth within a rabbit hole for Aspies. Often, we struggle with the interpretation of social cues, missing jokes as the room fills with laughter.
The Digital Contagion
I have been reading about the effects of social media and digital technology on people, and it reminds me of the cultural climate after World War I. In no way, am I making light of the brutal reality and deaths of World War I. Like many Aspies (code of someone with Aspergers), I think in pictures, but many times my mind relates to artwork…