One of the things everyone agrees on when it comes to ASD, is that we all have a lot of difficulties understanding and being a part of any social interaction. We have all seen the stereotypes on TV and in movies, or maybe we’ve read books where a character is on the spectrum. Often, in these cases, the character with …
Smell
My sense of smell is neither very good nor is it very bad, in the traditional sense of the word. It is more like it is very sensitive. It’s like the smells I encounter just demand more of my attention then it does for others. You might know the feeling of meeting a friend, who just had a cigarette a …
Hearing
My memories of my grandmother are always of her playing the piano in a deep sense of cigarette smoke. The clear tones from her fingers touching the keys, the intense focus with which she played, as if lost in a world of her own creation. And of course, her shouting from the other end of the house whenever I, as …