Springingtiger's Blog A mature(?) autistic looks at life, autism and the internet

I find that reality is sometimes harder to grasp than others. I have never had a particularly good sense of depth and distance, but when I am feeling unwell it gets considerably worse.I also find it harder to make sense of my environment, things are happening around me, I can see them, but somehow t

I was watching Chris Tarrant on the One Show and he reminded me of how little I knew of my Father’s war, in fact he said so little about it I can probably quote out verbatim. Most of my father’s service in the Second World War was on mine sweepers in the Mediterranean, but not [...]

At the end of April I took three weeks leave from my work, I also took a couple of weeks holiday from blogging. I posted a lot of blogs in April, I re-posted a lot of blogs in April and I felt like a break. Many bloggers in the Autism community are more than usually [...]

"I am What I am" and "These are the best of Times!" Springingtiger realises that success is what he says it is.

So Autism Awareness Month is over and what has it done? The Autism Community has been blogging fervently for thirty days, parents have been blogging about their experiences, and so have autistics some on their own blogs and some as guests of blogs like The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism. So many

My Asperger’s diagnosis came as more of a surprise to me than to my wife. I knew very little about autism before my diagnosis and it took me some time to come to terms with it. For several months autism became an obsession with me, it probably made living and working with me even more [...]

In common with many Aspies, I lack a pause button between thought and action, when that action is to comment on someone else’s Facebook post, unforseen consequences may arise. Recently I commented on a post, my comment was, I thought, a perfectly reasonable criticism of religious intolerance, but th

The Internet has given me a new freedom and facility to communicate with others far beyond what I ever had before, and has given me the opportunity to socialise freely in a way to that I never could.

Not long ago I commented on the changes to privacy settings on Facebook, I suggested that if someone is sufficiently open and content with who they are, they have little reason to be concerned about what social networking sites may reveal about them. I think it is fair to say that Asperger’s tends t