The Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences, Different Perceptual Worlds book, sounds like a useful read providing information about what could be seen as something very minor, or something for what it’s not. These things that appear in us, are not to be labelised as such, as they are usually a cause of something far simpler or deeper embedded in our Psyche causing us to react in such form.

Interestingly enough I didn’t hear my parents for the majority of my child/teenage life, due to a piece of toy (a plastic diamond) being planted in my ear when I was a mere toddler. I would not hear from one ear often, and I would have to ask my parents to repeat what they said. Eventually my parents took me to have my hearing tested here in the UK, and to a Specialist but they said my earsight was fine. Later when in Portugal in the Summer (originally from here) I could not hear a thing, and so my parents took me to the Hospital and this doctor put this utensil in my ear and a light and found something and eventually grabbed it out. He said that due to the shape of the toy it had been moving around in the ear when I would move, and sometimes I would hear and other times I would not. If it had been left longer, it may have moved far deeper and may have needed an operation, but because it was just at the surface he could grab it.

I was a day dreamer during my teenage years, and I shared these experiences with my parents, though they just nudged them away. I think ultimatetly communication is key with everything, and even if you don’t understand where someone is coming from, listening always goes the longest way in regaining the connection between you and the other person.

daydreaming about pirates… sounds fun

They are later here too – low temps slowing everything up!