I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.
John Elder RobisonUnlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.
John Elder RobisonIn the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality.
John Elder Robisona crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?
John Elder RobisonAnd now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.
John Elder RobisonTags: aspergers
Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.
John Elder RobisonIt does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.
John Elder Robison...delineated with signs reading:
TOWN OF AMHERST
WATERSHED
NO TRESPASSING
Which every boy in the neighborhood understood as:
PRIVATE PRESERVE FOR KIDS
Soon I was spending all my time in the basement, and I had moved from taking things apart to putting new things together. I began by building simple devices. Some, like my radios, were useful. Others were merely entertaining. For example, I discovered I could solder some stiff wires onto a capacitor and charge it up. For a few minutes, until the charge leaked away, I had a crude stun gun.
...So I decided to try it on my little brother. I charged the capacitor to a snappy but nonlethal level from a power supply I'd recently removed from our old Zenith television.
'Hey, let's play Jab a Varmint,' I said. I tried to smile disarmingly, keeping the capacitor behind my back and making sure I didn't ruin the effect by jabbing myself or some other object.
'What's that?' he asked, suspiciously.
Before he could escape, I stepped across the room and jabbed him. He jumped. Pretty high, too. Sometimes he would fight back, but this time he ran. The jab was totally unexpected and he didn't realize that I only had the one jab in my capacitor. It would be several years before I had the skill to make a multishot Varmint Jabber.
We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pages and say the words from memory. I became bored with repetition, and I began to make subtle alterations. The story turned into:
One fish
Two fish
Black fish
Blue fish
I eat you fish
And:
See them all
See them run
The man in back
He has a gun
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