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ALONENESS...

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, October 27, 2016, In : Autism

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Posted by Jasper Lee on Monday, September 9, 2013, In : Autism

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LIVING IN A GEOMETRIC UNIVERSE - On Being an Autistic Synaesthete

Posted by Jasper Lee on Friday, August 30, 2013, In : Autism

Imagine living in a world where geometry dominates your life, where squares, circles and triangles form a mental language that you use every day because it provides you with clues about the people who surround you, and what goes on around you in the world. Imagine knowing that everyone and everything you meet throughout the day will be converted to a shape: someone’s hand, a passing bus, a bird in flight. The hand may become a square, the bus a triangle, the bird a circle, an...
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Do Aspies See Too Much Rather Than Too Little?

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, July 4, 2013, In : Autism

I sometimes wonder if people on the spectrum see, feel, sense, and get to know more about others and their situations than is commonly believed. I have long had an ability to know exactly where people are coming from, which a geometric mental system I live with - affectionately called my 'signals' - informs me about.

Technically, I am not supposed to know such things; as an aspie I am supposed to be lacking sufficient communication skills, with trouble in handling conversations. We see things...
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Curse of the ISH

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, March 14, 2013,

The ISH is out to get you. You know the phrase: 'We'll be back at 7.30pm-ish'. And the 7.30pm becomes 9pm. Boundaries get stretched beyond their normal limits, stretched where they shouldn’t normally go. Waiting, in the cold and the dark in the car for our 8-year-old son to be delivered back from a school outing, with no telephone call to say they're so late and no apology when they finally arrive. The curse of the ISH is upon us.

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