This is not a post about Aspie touch sensitivity. Indeed I am just the opposite and crave tactile sensations as long as they are not unexpected. When out walking for exercise, I will often reach out and lightly touch leaves or other objects I pass just for the faint sensory input it provides.
This post is about a pun that I just noticed and decided to share with all of you out there in AspieLand. I am diabetic and use the One Touch brand of test strips to check my sugar levels. This evening while I was sitting in my chair preparing to go take a shower, I spotted the box of One Touch test strips sitting on a nearby table and my mind began rearranging the letters of the word "Touch" into symmetric and asymmetric patterns as I always seem to do (watching a movie with subtitles is rough because my mind is constantly rearranging the words and letters of the titles into those patterns... sometimes I get so lost in doing this that I completely miss the dialog and meaning of the titles and must back up the movie to watch what I missed). Anyhow, as my mind did this, it separated that word after the letter T and I realized that the word Touch ends in the word Ouch. Irrelevant trivia, but I thought it was interesting given the touch sensitivity that seems to be like ouch sensitivity to many Aspies.
Actually I haven't connected here in about two years now. After they redesigned the site a couple of years ago, several important features no longer worked such as search (a search for the word autism produced no results at all... WTF) and search for my own posts (I don't bookmark them so that is the only way I have to find them). I see that these two features now work again so maybe I will be back here more often now.
10 Aug 2016, 9:14 pm
