Published on 12, July, 2020
So I'm on the spectrum, it seems, and this might explain why I've struggled to make and keep friends all my life. In 55 and happily married but my NT wife, love her to bits, finds me hard going and it's good to talk to others who have similar brains. She calls me her "weirdo" sometimes and she's not wrong, I guess ND is a kind of weirdness and I don't mind the label. I guess I get intense at times, and I'm aloof at other times. I can be grumpy but mostly I'm very optimistic.
I like books, art, films, writing and reading. I have no time for bigots or people who use the phrase "common sense '. I hope to get my novel finished this year. Lefty, parent of two teens, LGBT ally. Would love to chat if you're similarly weird.
Oh yes, 'common sense' and 'I'm only telling the truth' are the biggest verbal travesties of our time.
I've had weird things happen to me for ages, I once fell down a rabbit hole whilst thinking about Lewis Carroll. I have lots of totally weird dreams, like the one about a red paisley cat that lived in the cat litter tray and wouldn't let my other cats use it?
I'm more of an academic than an artist, I can barely draw a bath, let alone anything else, I love reading, mostly crime fiction and historical fiction. I find I don't understand most maiinstream fiction and family sagas, to NT for me I think. I love my ancient and medieval history and read loads about that.
It's better if we called it common stupidity, sense is very rare!