Posts Tagged ‘Aspergers’

Lately, I’ve had people ask me to talk about my personal experiences with Asperger’s symptoms.  That’s why I chose the video you just watched because I believe that the character of Spock explains everything perfectly.  Let me elaborate.

When I married my husband, we had to watch Star Trek on our wedding night because it was a “new episode”! He not only knew all of the character’s histories but he also accurately predicted the outcome of the show based on the writing styles of the show’s writers.  He definitely fit the description of a “Trekkie”.

I quickly learned that my husband and Spock had a lot in common.  My husband could have been the one stating the phrase that’s “highly illogical” because emotion didn’t play a role in any decision he made.  He also became incensed when people made the same mistakes over and over.  He felt that people should learn from their mistakes and retain the information for life ( just like Spock’s brain).  Honestly, how many people do you know still remember their locker combination from Elementary school?

Then along came my son and I soon recognized that my son was a little Spock with his own set of Asperger’s symptoms.  Like Spock he needed everything to be the same with no change in his routine.  He also didn’t want to be cuddled and was very independent-quite content to take a computer apart when my back was turned at only 2 years of age.  He also didn’t need or appreciate praise for acquiring skills.  In fact like Spock, he became annoyed when there was what he considered an excessive celebration causing him to leave the room rather than deal with the display of emotion.

Now that I’ve lived with various Asperger’s symptoms for years, I’ve come to one indisputable fact.  The more you think you know about this disorder the more you have to learn because as the person grows older the symptoms change.  A person with Asperger’s can learn what is appropriate or inappropriate in a social setting and they can develop skills to cope with things that annoy them but new perseverations and new unique social mistakes are inevitable.  Just like Spock was able to learn to express certain feelings, a person with Asperger’s can grow and change as well but it will take effort.

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