Life as a Mimic

So, over the last couple of weeks I talked a lot about some of my experience with hypersensitivity. I think I could talk about it forever, because this is one of the fundamental differences between me and everyone else. Me, a woman with Asperger’s, and everyone else – literally everyone else. Even other people on the spectrum might experience things …

Practice Conversations

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 …