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BeccaLovesBreakfast

My sister and I (she is also autistic) were chatting on messenger early this morning, and I'd mentioned earlier that I'd always felt on the outside of groups and in another time I'd probably have been the slightly strange lady who lived in the woods outside the village while they shouted "Burn the Witch" lolRofl

Anyway, we got onto chatting about our favourite spoons and she just came out with "but anyway srsly I ****ing love my crazy witchy sister".

Which made my day. She's not very demonstrative or emotional, and doesn't even leave xxx at the end of a texting conversation lol

Anyway, I don't know what my point was, but I was just so happy I wanted to tell someone.

  • in reply to BeccaLovesBreakfast

    You really have to watch A Kind of Spark now! You will relate in more way than one!

  • in reply to SpikeyMark

    I've just finished reading a book about witchcraft in New England around the time of the Salem witch trials. It was about a married couple, both of whom were accused of witchcraft, and it struck me that the husband did display certain autistic traits. He was shunned by his neighbours because he was conversationally awkward, and would try to make jokes that they didn't find funny, and acted abnormally and unemotional over the death of his infant son. He would fixate on things and people would get annoyed because he'd think he was just sticking to the task at hand and getting on with it, but they wanted the 'social glue' of polite niceties.

    Maybe I was reading too much into it, but I thought it was interesting.

  • That is so sweet.

    My 90+ aunty (who is the last of her generation left - including my mum and her 8 brothers and sisters - so is very special to me) was quite ill earlier in the year, and she said I love you for the first time ever when we were visiting. It was really touching.

    ...and you are probably right about the witch thing. Men had it much easier - we'd be able to be Isaac Newton (if we were well off)