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Thread #56651   Message #2859398
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
08-Mar-10 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: musicians with Asperger's Syndrome
Subject: RE: musicians with Asperger's Syndrome
And....there's another great book called 'An Asperger Marriage' where husband (asperger) and wife (non-asperger) write alternate chapters, but on the same subjects. It's so interesting to see how they view the same situations from a very different perspective.

Even though they are married, they go into different rooms and communicate via emails, because the husband can get his feelings, his words, his emotions, out so easily when he writes, rather than when he is right next to her. In this way, she is able to realise and understand how much he loves her.

a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asperger-Marriage-Gisela-Slater-Walker/dp/1843100177">An Asperger Marriage - Amazon


The support lies in his Mum going into his 'world', seeing it from his perspective and then talking to him about her world. He is an intelligent person, most Aspergians are, and he will start to realise where he can make things easier for himself.

What makes me angry is that it is put upon those with Aspergers to adapt to 'our' world, when in should be that we are all taught, from a very early age that many of us think differently to others. That way we'd be able to meet each other half way with deep understanding and empathy.