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Perseveration: Brought to You by the Number 2
This is what social script fail looks like: Restaurant hostess: “How are you today?” Me: “Two!” Hostess: “Great!” Once we were seated at our table, my husband waited a few minutes before gently...
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Autism is My Special Interest
Before I started reading about Asperger’s Syndrome, I had no idea what a special interest was, even though I’ve had them all of my life. A special interest, for those you who aren’t familiar with the...
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The Importance of the Pasta on the Left
I was in the cereal aisle in Target, waiting for The Scientist to decide on his cereal purchase, when I overheard this exchange between a mother and her preteen son: Mother: “James, come and let’s pick...
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Catastrophizing Sucks
Catastrophizing is one of those autistic traits that when I first read about it, I thought, “Oh, I never do that.” How wrong I was. I catastrophize daily. It’s usually small stuff that blows over...
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Sometimes This Happens
I sat down this morning to write up this week’s Take a Test Tuesday post. I took the test last week and I have my results and some notes written up so I wasn’t too concerned about leaving it until...
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Let Me Repeat Myself
In the comments on the Why Talking is Hard post, a few people mentioned that they have a tendency to repeat themselves when speaking and, oh boy, can I relate to that. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking...
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