Autobiographical Piece by an Aspie

Damaged · Yellow-bellied Woodpecker Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Posts: 53

Here is link to an intersting autobiographical article from the New Yorker Magazine:
New Yorker Magazine link
Here is a sample paragraph:

In the fall of 2000, in the course of what had become a protracted effort to identify—and, if possible, alleviate—my lifelong unease, I was told that I had Asperger’s syndrome. I had never heard of the condition, which had been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association only six years earlier. Nevertheless, the diagnosis was one of those rare clinical confirmations which are met mostly with relief. Here, finally, was an objective explanation for some of my strengths and weaknesses, the simultaneous capacity for unbroken work and all-encompassing recall, linked inextricably to a driven, uncomfortable personality. And I learned that there were others like me—people who yearned for steady routines, repeated patterns, and a few cherished subjects, the driftwood that keeps us afloat.

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P.S. Did the link actually work? This is my first time posting a link like that...