A Gentleman Traveller

It wasn't u n til recently I had fooled myself into believing that I had my Aspergers under control, it wasn't until this weekend when I realised just HOW wrong I was. Recently, this Gentleman Traveller had met someone and for the first time in many, many years the better part of a decade in fact. Having been alone for the better part of over a decade, this time as been spent as a mixture of learning to love my self. So, in doing this I have gotten so used to being alone and having the company of friends, but also being able to shut myself away from the world. Often doing so at a moment’s notice and with a seconds forethought, it is because I needed it or just because I wanted to hide away and just because I could...in fact more often than not, I have to thank my friends from University for not allowing me to do so (these people I will write about in a separate entry). These amazing and fantastic people did what only true friends can do....not let me get away with SHI...

Where do I begin this...this item is as personal to me as anything could ever possibly be. This is not just about me, but to all intensive purposes this is me. Now the reason why I, a twenty-six year old has decided to sit down and write this, is simply because having a form of Autism seems now to be a cause of shyness, of the thinking that everyone who might have the slightest form of Autism, or any mental difficulties should be bubble wrapped, this is wrong!!! To those of you who have ever read anything about Aspergers Syndrome (AS), might only know what you do from what you have read in newspaper articles. Articles that have made it into the main stream media due to people who have it and who have done terrible things, murders, computer hacking etc. These cases are far and few between, people with AS have the potential to do great things and to be great people. To give those of you to whom this might be an introduction to Aspergers Syndrome, an idea of the t...