Intro “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for everyvictory gained you will also suffer a defeat.If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War   After doing some reflecting […]

Growing up, I was very focused on things that interested me, often to the detriment of everything else. I would be admonished frequently by others – except, most of the time I hardly heard them and didn’t care when I did. When you have ‘weird’ interests, even just in intensity of focus and time spent doing something compared to neurotypicals, […]

Neurotypicals are the species of non autistics.  They come in all sizes and shapes. They never seem to get tired in peopely places. They can change topics in one second. They tolerate lots of noise, bright lights or something on their skin unless it’s very obviously standing out times 100.  NT’s generally like to say what sounds good instead of what […]

Today my driving license, credit card and and bank card and an Ikea Family card got lost or stolen, but I don’t have anxiety. A few years ago this would have caused me a really severe panic attack and possibly a melt down, I would worry about every little detail of it, digging into all possibilities, putting intensely all the […]

What are the mechanisms behind us not being able to find a suitable partner?

A cheat sheet for online dating You can print these 11 pointers out and keep them nearby as a cheat sheet while you are looking for someone online.  It is written to avoid some pitfalls while dating on the spectrum and will be useful for any online dating site.  You can also use our printer friendly PDF and EPUB Take […]