
Asperger Syndrome Support Group
Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.

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I'm going to start off with my journal entry for today:
"Gotta go through the mechanics of getting up and getting going. I plan to spend the day cooking, tried out a new recipe last night - it was just Greek Salad but it was great. I have a couple of Beef dishes for today (sorry to gross out the Vegans).
Unfortunate that this reads like a series of dot points but I guess I'm distracted, I was removed from someone's "friend's list" but don't know why, I don't mind because I may not be using this whole board as adequately as I could, I leave the board up 24/7 so when they tried to chat I wasn't here, I don't think I even remember there being a chat function, must have missed that bit. It's just that the part of my mind where the demons lurk says somehow the removal is my fault
I wish them well, I guess it takes guts to cut someone for whatever reason :) "
I have AS, ADHD, OCD-like symptoms, Depression and such a string of other letters that I sound like a professor at a university. Logically I know that social links age, alter, rupture or just die out but is it atypical of someone with Asperger's to assume guilt; I was the cause of ...
Over the years I've held the pain close when like things have happened without allowing that others have grown, moved on or moved away. Is anyone else out there carrying around a wheel-barrow load of unnecessary guilt and pain?
I hope this hasn't bored you but it's been a Eureka! like moment for me, quite cleansing really.
Cheers
Oz
"Gotta go through the mechanics of getting up and getting going. I plan to spend the day cooking, tried out a new recipe last night - it was just Greek Salad but it was great. I have a couple of Beef dishes for today (sorry to gross out the Vegans).
Unfortunate that this reads like a series of dot points but I guess I'm distracted, I was removed from someone's "friend's list" but don't know why, I don't mind because I may not be using this whole board as adequately as I could, I leave the board up 24/7 so when they tried to chat I wasn't here, I don't think I even remember there being a chat function, must have missed that bit. It's just that the part of my mind where the demons lurk says somehow the removal is my fault
I wish them well, I guess it takes guts to cut someone for whatever reason :) "
I have AS, ADHD, OCD-like symptoms, Depression and such a string of other letters that I sound like a professor at a university. Logically I know that social links age, alter, rupture or just die out but is it atypical of someone with Asperger's to assume guilt; I was the cause of ...
Over the years I've held the pain close when like things have happened without allowing that others have grown, moved on or moved away. Is anyone else out there carrying around a wheel-barrow load of unnecessary guilt and pain?
I hope this hasn't bored you but it's been a Eureka! like moment for me, quite cleansing really.
Cheers
Oz
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it was quite the melancholy experience watching them look around the empty apartment. It was a little strange for me too. The house itself is the last bastion of childhood memories for me and many other people in our family including my father.
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Now the only reason I hate change is if it means I have to move again. I'm getting too old to lift the furniture.
Guess you could say I got that "cleansing" a long time ago.
But you know what? I'd give anything to get some of that baggage back.
Wait, I think I see some in those boxes across the room. The ones I got from my mother's after she passed away. The ones I put there two years ago full of pictures I'm going to scan and put on a web site for my extended family, who I've barley spoken to over the past twenty-five years, to enjoy.
Someday.
Maybe it's time for a different kind of cleansing now.
SP
Perhaps soon I will find someone in which it matters that they are truly in my life or not.
If I can control my upchucks and twitching, I think it is going to be fun to observe this event. FirstInLine has promised to keep a close eye on me.
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