Less Confrontational Strategies for Approaching Children with Aspergers Syndrome

For many people, particularly teachers, the first real experience with Asperger's syndrome comes as part of an intervention in a "s...

Article: Life as an Aspergian female (Part 2b)

John Elder Robison (author of "Look me in the Eye") has I've already covered part one and the first half of part two of this a...

Marriage Encounters - Part Four (Final)

As usual, this follows on from Part One , Two and Three . If you haven't read these, you really should go back and read them before mo...

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...

Article: Reading Facial Expressions (Smile Spotting Test)

The BBC has a really interesting test on its web site at the moment. It's all about whether or not people can spot fake smiles versus ...

Visual Stimming - One of the Reasons why your Aspie child is pulling faces

Stimming is a repetitive behaviour performed by aspergers and autistic children because it "feels good" or calms them. I've c...

More on Empathy (Empathy versus Emotion)

Today, I'm returning to the subject of Empathy because it's a very important part of the Aspergers condition. We lack empathy, but...

A couple of Good Aspie Links

Just thought I'd post a couple of great Aspie links; Napoleon Dynamite (defining Aspergers) I recently watched this film which others ha...