I knew my mum was keeping a secret I knew my mum was keeping a secret and I think I knew what it was but I knew she would never admit it or discuss it but something had to be done. The day had been hot and I was sorry that Jenny had decided not […]
An Aspies guide to peace & quiet Let us start as we mean to go on: Many neurotypical people are hung over and bad tempered on new year’s day. The children have given up their expensive toys in order to bang two saucepan lids together and whine that they are bored and if very young,
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A short but sinnister story It was Saturday and as usual Steve was engrossed in the newspaper which Margie always let him read first because he nagged her about creasing the pages. Then he called her in:“Blimey! Come and read this lot. Someone has gone to the chair for multiple murder. Capital punishment was abolished
I have an obsession with the question of empathy After a two-year quest to get the book in a suitable format, I have just finished the well-known book by Simon Baron Cohen, dealing with the subject and the temperatures are chilly, just like the weather at present. He says that “people with Asperger’s are zero
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A Romance between two outsiders It was another dull, rainy and drab Monday morning. I thought of pulling a sicky but then I thought of how dishonest that would be and how it may tempt fate and also of how unfair it would be on my colleagues so I showered, breakfasted, pulled on my clothes
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THE BROKEN LEAF Everything is connected and when one thing breaks, everything else reacts. Miss Hastings who had won an award when she lived in Sussex which meant that nobody living near her now could really be sure if that was her name or just her competition sobriquet was weird. She’d spent years in a
Memory Systems in Autism Both my friend and I have asperger’s syndrome a form of autism. As you may know, no two people with autism are the same just like no two people without autism are the same. One trait of autism is an amazing memory for facts and information, we can have a brain
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My parents both came from big families. Maybe that is what prompted their outlandish ideas. Nicholas Cunningham braced himself for another long week at the chalk face. Teaching increasingly ill mannered, tired and undisciplined children was becoming more irksome by the week. First of all, each incidence of bad behaviour now had to be put
THE SECRET. When children are travelling from the special place to this world where most grow up to be big people who have children of their own, they bring with them a special box. This is why their mothers say that it hurts when they are born. Inside the box are two secrets: Love and
A short story, that isn’t cute & fluffy It came from nowhere and sat outside our back door. Abby loved him at once but I didn’t. It was a mistaken love that resulted in tragedy for us all.I noticed we were buying extra milk which I resented since our mortgage was costing an arm and