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What Eye Contact Feels like for this Aspie
Photo by zolakoma Eye contact has always been a sore spot for me. When I was younger, I was often pushed to make eye contact and was told that not doing so was both rude and unacceptable. These days, I understand that eye contact is both important and with practice, a bit less uncomfortable. While …
Planning Chaos – Finding Regularity
When it comes to fears, lack of a plan lands right at the top of my list. That’s precisely why I do my best to plan everything from meals to work to play. Planning as many details as possible works like a charm in many cases, but it is not without its flaws. A day …
A Different kind of Tired – Autistic Shutdown
Autistic Shutdown – Withdrawing from people and generally acting reserved/unwilling to talk. An autistic shutdown is a very common experience amongst aspies and can cause a host of problems. Unfortunately, this sort of closing off is inevitable in most environments, so it’s just about essential to have some grasp on what it is whether you …
How are Aspies different?
What actually makes aspies (anyone with Asperger’s syndrome) different from neurotypicals (any person with a typical brain structure)? This question is very deep so I’ll actually be doing this in parts. This first part is actually going to be covering how aspies are similar to neurotypicals in how they handle stress, rather than focusing on …
What stimming is
What stimming is from an aspie’s perspective. First thing is first: what even is “stimming”? Well, from my experience stimming has been any action I perform to help myself deal with sensory overload (something I’ve talked about before) that involves creating some amount of sensory input. To make this a bit more clear, I will …
How an aspie deals with sensory overload
Now this topic is far from a fun one, and I promise I’ll be covering some happier things in the articles to come, but this is really important. As I’ve mentioned previously, managing sensory experiences is really important for an aspie (a person with Asperger’s). Managing sensory experiences helps aspies like me stay functioning properly, …
How does Someone with Asperger’s see the world?
Now this is a very common question! As such, it only seems natural for this to be the very first thing I run through. Basically, sensory stuff is insane for an aspie (that’s just short for someone who has Asperger’s syndrome) and because of that, there are a million different things each and every one …