Wikipedia says about the novel Housekeeping, Housekeeping is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson. It was published in 1980, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and given the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In 2003, the Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing [...]
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 [...]
Back in January of 1995, while searching for a movie to rent in a local video rental store (before I knew about Aspergers), I prayed for God to show me what He would like me to experience watching. Minutes later, I found the movie “A Dangerous Woman” on the shelf. On the back of the [...]
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 [...]
When a pastor says that Aspergers is something psychologists made up, isn’t real, and only exists in the imagination, that is not being kind or helpful. It does not provoke NT Christians to love Aspie Christians. It provokes them to excuse themselves from getting to personally know an Aspie. It gives them something to use [...]
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. [...]
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