those quintessential Aspie moments

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This morning I woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep. When my son got up, he had to talk for ten minutes about how our bedroom door was open instead of closed and how I was in my office with the light on and so on and so on...

And one I had about myself: while putting away my clothes, I realized that if I were in a sit com like The Big Bang Theory, my complex clothes organization system would be a subject of total mockery. (My husband's comment, "yes, you're hilarious.") But it makes perfect sense to me!

LOL, my son does the same thing. Drives me nuts in the evening when we get into bed to do some reading or computer or games. I bought a wireless headset and it is my haven at times. I TRY not to use it too often. As for myself, oh they could write books on me.
Biologically Aspie/Partially Adapted NT

Aspies love talking or atleast I do LOL! I can ramble on and on about stuff I'm interested in. My 10 year old sister does this as does my 8 year old sister I highly suspect the 8 year old of being on the spectrum or maybe both I'm not sure. They both have a mix of traits.

8 year old: rigid thinking.
Meltdown (tantrum)
Hard time in school.
Practically no friends.


10 year old: A mini me sadly!! !
Rudeness galore!
the rambling talking.

To my knowledge neither has eye contact issues but as we know each person is different.

My son is very aware of everything in our house. He will talk about the different bathrooms in the house. He will say I need to go to the bathroom in the yellow bathroom. He talks about the lights in rooms and pictures on the wall. Sometimes it drives me and my husband nuts! We just go along with him for the most part. My son is definitely a talkative littel boy. Sometimes the topics are strange or seem so petty, but at least he is talking!! !

Let's see, one of my sons has recently discovered that if you give the object of your monologue a time or point limit they will be a little more receptive, as in "I would like to tell you four main points about Mario..." I thought it was a great tactic, and very Aspie.

And I had an "a ha Aspie" moment myself earlier today too, something jogged my memory about the fact that I still know almost all the words/songs to all the parts in "Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert & Sullivan. It had been my "special interest" for awhile as a child. I had listened to it obsessively for about a year. I learned everything about that particular operetta, but even though I tried to expand my interest a bit to say HMS Pinafore or some other G&S work none of them stuck. It was Pirates of Penzance and only Pirates of Penzance that gave me that warm, fuzzy, immersed in my own world feeling. So how's that for narrow interest of peculiar type or intensity?

LOL - General interest in G&S for me...which is still a narrow interest. I can patter like a madwoman!

Today my son helped me with yardwork. He was somewhat hampered in his raking, by the fact that he was recording himself with his digital camera the whole time. While narrating.

My daughter loves her makeup (she has more than i have had in my entire life lol) she brings it out and talks about it as though she is advertising it in a tv commercial...

Why thanks. He is quite delightful, if I do say so myself.

Mahini, my son loves to do commercials too. Which I've always found a bit odd, because we don't have commercial t.v. (No cable, no stations at all.) I guess it's just ubiquitous in our culture. One of our ways to pass the time is making up commercial jingles. He also loves to make up website names. For awhile, anytime he wrote anything, like a birthday card, he would add something like "visit our website at www. happybirthday. com!"