Just back from germany, no sleep in 22 hours, however, this thread (and a couple of private e mails) cheers me considerably. Seems to me we're all the same tribe and I think I'll stick around and try to pick up the correct way to join in. Never was much good at joining in tho..seems to be a problem with artists in general..but then that's a lifelong study of mine as my library could show. Reading an article on autism I found that one of the ten tests was "are you often misunderstood by people" answer..obviously, yes. Autism and artistic ability have so many things in common, but autism has them in spades and out of control. Sorry.too tired to continue....