David M. Davison
fightingforhope.wordpress.com
- Imagine needing order in a disorderly world.
- Imagine creating order, and being laughed at for doing so.
- Imagine needing precision in an imprecise world.
- Imagine being precise, and being told it is often unnecessary.
- Imagine needing structure in an unstructured world.
- Imagine creating structure, only for people to tear it apart.
- Imagine needing words to have their literal meaning.
- Imagine taking words literally, only for people to consider you stupid.
—- - Imagine order is innate, and you have to work out when order is not required.
- Imagine precision is innate, and you have to work out when precision is not required.
- Imagine structure is innate, and you have to work out when structure is not required.
- Imagine taking words literally is innate, and you have to work out when the meaning is not literal.
—- - Imagine becoming anxious when you see the ‘Random’ button on your CD player.
- Imagine becoming anxious because someone gives you £10 when they owe £9.60.
- Imagine becoming anxious when you see fiction and non-fiction books mingled.
- Imagine becoming anxious when you are told to wait 10 minutes and it is 11 minutes and counting.
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If you can imagine this, then you can begin to imagine my world.
Welcome to my Asperger’s world.