Fifth of Asperger’s Ten Traits – “… people aren’t as open or trusting as we are”

"5) We learn that to fit in we have to “fake” it. Through trial and error, we lost friends. We over-shared, spilling out intimate details to strangers; we raised our hand too much in class, or didn’t raise our hand at all; we had little impulse control with our speaking, monopolizing conversations and bringing the … Continue reading Fifth of Asperger’s Ten Traits – “… people aren’t as open or trusting as we are”

Why the “rest” of the world is largely unaware of people on the spectrum

As I may have mentioned before, I'm about halfway through my next degree, this time in Mental Health... And exactly as the post's writer, I'm a healthcare practitioner, who's come to learn about Asperger's after one my lecturers kindly (and I mean it...) asked: "Aren't you just a tiny bit autistic?" And looking back, I … Continue reading Why the “rest” of the world is largely unaware of people on the spectrum