And Now For Something Different
Apropos nothing very much, just really liked this blog post. From a woman with Asperger’s making sense of life:
Grounded in heart. That is often an aspergerian asset, a self-defense from squandering our lives in larger realms we cannot fathom. Contrary to the NY Times article – and my own life experience — I suspect there are numerous aspie women whose marriages succeed and therefore, their minds are never labeled. They are just appreciated by their families. They are honored as leaders in small groups. They produce and educate professionally accomplished sons.
No, I suspect that universal screening for aspies and other learning differences would yield a more complex picture of aspergerian women than this article held forth. Love is really the only thing that triumphs over this syndrome, and some of it has been romantic love. And it has been bestowed on us. Likewise, I cannot believe there have not been successful aspie women in unheralded careers. In fact, I consider it likely that many of the “behind every successful man†women – the ones who consistently find themselves training a succession of hot young male bosses – are aspies who deserve a lot more credit.
Worth noting:
Love is really the only thing that triumphs over this…
That is true, and wonderfully so, of so many things we encounter in this vale of tears.
