Back in early October of 2009, I was told explaining yourself to others can cause them to lose respect towards you. No one ever pointed that out to me before. Also back then, I finished reading Child Training Tips: What I wish I knew when my children were young by Reb Bradley. That book opened [...]
Aspergers people are not the only ones who get manipulated and bullied. However, they are the ones it happens to the most. Why do you think that is? The power of any mind game lies in the other person not being aware of how and when they’re being played. Below is an excerpt from a [...]
The title, “Brain Games of the Invisible Gorilla among Animals in Translation,” sums up some of the major sources of information I’ve added to other bits I’ve accumulated off the internet. Brain Games is a 3-Part/3-Hour National Geographic Channel episode that’s been on television; possibly to air for the last time on the morning of [...]
Empathy is the ability to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them. Just because you can imagine what it is like to be them, doesn’t mean you will always want to. Most children can be coerced to apologize. Even Asperger’s children, if they’re growing up in a [...]
Penelope Trunk¹ wrote How Successful People Deal with Aspergers. Her advice is interesting, but completely useless for unsuccessful Aspergers people like me. It’s obvious already that to become successful one must work hard. I did, and still do, work hard at the things I set my mind to doing. When I determine to do something [...]
Since I can speak from personal experience, it’s probably helpful I pass along brief information about Aspergers and asexuality. The statement Tony Atwood makes on pages 308 and 309 of his book The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome, …the partner of a man or woman with Asperger’s syndrome is more likely to be concerned about [...]
To be a content worldly Aspie,¹ look to Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper of The Big Bang Theory as a mentor. There is good reason, “…he’s poised to become a pop-culture emblem of the Aspie.” Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper) believes Sheldon “couldn’t display more traits” of Asperger’s. I find that impressive for a neurotypical to realize. [...]
By coincidence, Gavin Bollard wrote a post on empathy on the same day I wrote my last post (The Biased EQ Test) on this same subject. His is titled Barriers to Empathy. What’s said there supports my point; plus, it contains details to help NTs better understand what should not be such a difficult challenge [...]
Around the beginning of last December I wrote Five Quotes from Three Posts into Two Books. Since then, I’ve completed reading these two books introduced back then that include some things I said on my blog. I have also been in contact with both of those authors and am now ready to say more about [...]
Proprioception is the sense that people have of knowing where the parts of their body are. It is also called kinesthetic sense. Proprioceptive dysfunction is a fancy term for motor clumsiness which is an expression of relatively low spatial ability. Spatial ability is a category of reasoning skills that refers to the capacity to think [...]
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