Fragments of the Missing Manual
The Social Iceberg
I posted to my High School Alumni group the other day. It was my first post to this group.
I didn’t know I was forming an iceberg…
It’s What Works for Me
I’m not big on quotes, or cliché.
I usually don’t go in for idioms or figures of speech and other assorted Redewendungen.
Unless an Aspie or someone thought to be an Aspie coined it.
One I like, though is:
So what? – Andy Warhol
Here’s what:
If you’ve met one of us;…
Imagine purchasing 20 computers.
You distribute those machines to twenty people and you tell them:
Go enjoy.
Do with these as you wish.
And, three years later you come back to those people and offer them an upgrade, if they give you the old machines—which they happily do.
What would you expect to find when you examined the 20 machines?
No Shortage of Experts
The more time I spend on FB the more amazed I am at all the experts.
Many of the posts, videos and ads start with versions of:
- All these people do this….
- All those people do that….
A Meeting I Never Attended
Social Constructs and the Social Contract
Were you ever talking to someone only to have them repeat back to you what you just said, but in a way that appeared 180° from the way you presented it?
When I first started to encounter this it had me stymied too.
One Floor Down
Some Places Are Easier to Work Than Others
One would think that all businesses were similar, but I found, sometimes the hard way, that businesses, although outwardly the same, could be very different—just one floor down.
Over the years I’ve discovered that it’s not just the nature of the business, or the venue in which it sits, that determines what the business is like; more importantly what it would be like to work there.
Arguing Nonsense
I see all sorts of things being argued on the web:
It’s hard not to get caught up.
I see it a lot among normal people.
It also seems to be something that I’m seeing more and more among Aspies.
Hints
When I was first diagnosed, my doctor and I were chatting in her office and I told her that my wife had mentioned it was trash day.
The doctor said, “That’s how women ask for things.”
Inside My Writing
When I was finishing my first book, I happened to be at my 50th year grade school reunion and asked a classmate if she would like to pre-read it.
…afterwards I asked her if she could identify the author who was most influential in my writing.
Essays added periodically.