Long Time No Talk

Well, it's been a while since I posted in this blog and a lot has happened.  I've been unemployed, reemployed part-time, passed the last of the classes I need for certification, gotten my application in for my Initial Certification, been offered a full-time spot, and applied to become an astronaut (I know - that last one doesn't really fit...).  And, one of my achievements that I a MOST proud of...

Yesterday, I helped a friend understand a little about how Aspies think.  She is the other science teacher at my school.  She joined the school part way through the year and has been actively working on organizing the Science Lab.  She also likes to talk with me when she is working in there.  Not that there's anything wrong with tat, but I typically like being by myself.  I tend to zone out when she talks to me but, for some reason, I didn't yesterday.  One of the things we talked about was someone she had had a relationship with who had AS.  It hadn't worked out (he broke it off) and she had thought she had something to do with it.  I explained to her how I am - that I have trouble expressing my emotions and that, since I have trouble telling my OWN emotions from one another, that it is even harder to deal with the emotions of another (empathy).  She asked me about my wife and why I decided to get married and I told her that it was a decision I made to be with someone.  I also told her that I need a lot more alone time than my wife would like me to, but that, especially since my diagnosis, she has been OK with it since it is who I am.

She was happy that I was so honest and forthright with her (another of my Aspie traits), and I told her that's just the way I am and that it often gets me in trouble, especially with my supervisors since they don't like me voicing my real opinions of them.  She said she felt much better that it wasn't her fault that he had broken it off but that was just the way he was.

Well, gotta go.  I have a little monkey squirming his way in!  I'll try to post more often!