Pardon my nerd reference for the title, but I felt it was fitting for this article. So this is the tenth part in the Living With Autism series and some might say at this point that I’m just trying really hard to milk the cow and squeeze as many drops out of this topic as possible. With …
Category: Autism
Living With Autism Part 9: Why Autism?
Every writer that pursues a particular topic to write about has to answer the question: why do you write what you write? As I’ve been writing these articles about my life with autism and about the knowledge I have about the autism spectrum, I’ve been commended for being very open, transparent, and honest in my …
Living With Autism Part 8: Dating Relationships
What? Oh you had to know that I was going to get to this subject eventually! It’s a very fun subject. There’s a lot that you can find about the link between romance and people on the autism spectrum when you look it up, but a lot of these articles are written by people …
Living With Autism Part 7: Concerning Religion
It took almost a half an hour of research to get started on this post after I brought up the ‘new post’ page. Over the last few days, I’ve gotten more interested in the relationship between religion and autism, and what religion is like for people on the autism spectrum. A study done in …
Living With Autism Part 6: Obsessions
When I was a kid (I believe I’m old enough to say that now), I was addicted to and obsessed with video games. Even after my parents limited my freedom to play so that I was only allowed to play on the weekends, I would still play four to five hours straight on Sunday afternoons …
Living With Autism Part 5: Numbers!
NOTE: I just recently finished the second draft of my novel At the End Of the Day and have handed the document over to a good friend who has agreed to proofread it for me. Though I believe the book still needs a lot of work, I’m excited for it to see the light of day …
The Autistic Struggle Of Associating With Neurotypical People
Note: Sorry I’ve been absent for a while. Its been a very busy and hectic time for me. Thank you all for your patience! Imagine me sitting alone in a room playing the piano. If you can imagine that, I’m afraid that’s as far as you’re ever going to get seeing me play the piano, …
Living With Autism Part 4: Dwelling Amongst Them
I recently had the privilege of becoming part of a group intended for young adults who are on the autism spectrum to come together and play games, talk, form friendships, and go places together. It’s simply a community comprised of people who go through some of the same things in life, therefore, they can …
Living With Autism Part 3: What Is Empathy?
According to our best frenemy Google, empathy is ‘the ability to understand and share the feelings of another’. Despite this very clear and straightforward definition, I can’t say that I really grasp this concept fully. Why do I say this? Because empathy never comes to me naturally when it’s supposed to. If someone …
Living With Autism: My Typical Worship Service Experience
This is a short post in between Part 2 and 3 of my Living With Autism series to give you a glimpse of what my experience is like with my mind in a particular setting, told in a narrative form. Hopefully this is informative enough. My mother tells the congregation to stand, which includes myself. …