A Day of Silence

Today (Yesterday for people who live in my timezone) was supposed to be a day of silence on the web. It was supposed to mark (or model?) th...

Getting Tripped up with Language

It's funny but I usually don't feel like I get tripped up taking language and expressions literally. Not the way classic aspies do a...

Getting Empathy (Back) into Your Relationship: Part 3

Last time I started on a four step process to empathy. The steps were; Receive Explore Feel Respond In my last post, I discussed receiving ...

Getting Empathy (Back) into Your Relationship - Part 2

Last time, we looked at all the ways in which modern society conspires against us to reduce the amount and quality of our family time. This...

Article: How to Prevent the Aspie Ramble

I just thought I'd draw your attention to this article which appeared on the aspie teacher blog a couple of days ago. How to Prevent th...

Marriage Encounters - Part Three

Once again, Part three follows on from Parts One and Two . If you haven't read those two, then this post probably won't make a whol...

Conversational Effort: An Incident

This post is quite a long and rambling one... my apologies. I haven't been the most supportive husband of late due mainly to two separat...

Do Aspie Children know at they are Different? - Part 3: The Teenage Years

It seems that aspie children are well aware of their differences from an early age and that at the very least, this has significant impact o...

The Differences between Aspie and NT Conversation

A little while ago, I was asked to explain what the main differences were between aspie and NT Communication, specifically in terms of what ...

The Silent Scream

I had planned to move away from adult topics for a little while and concentrate on children's issues but the following comment provides ...

Finding Conversational Balance - Part 4: love in a restricted touch environment

Introduction I've already highlighted some of the problems that aspies face in the area of touch, though I haven't yet covered the c...

Finding Conversational Balance - Part 3: Compromises for Alone-Time and Social Time

Building on the last few posts, we have determined that aspies have a few obvious needs; Alone Time Restricted Touch Routine Gentle Encourag...

Finding Conversational Balance - Part 2: What Aspies Want from a Relationship

Recap We've already established that aspies not only have difficulty with small talk but also greatly dislike engaging in it. You can...

Finding Conversational Balance - Part 1: Changes

In my last post, I talked about how much aspies hate being asked "how was your day". It was entirely from an aspie point of view ...