Asperger's Syndrome

One thing that I want to mention, and will likely mention a number of times is that I have a mental condition called Asperger's Syndrome (AS). It is a form of autism. Over the years, after being diagnosed, it has been my task to learn what it means, what it doesn't mean, so on and so forth. One of my favorite sources on the subject is www.aspergerssyndrome.org. On that website is a script of a speech that Lars Perner gave about AS. Dr. Perner is a professor of clinical marketing at USC. If I'm lucky, some day I could meet him. He himself has AS. When I read what he had to say, I did see myself in much that he said. The truth is that I do talk to myself sometimes. We have good conversations. Another fact is that it's harder for me to understand the people that I know, while it's hard for people to understand me. Why do I have the fact that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second memorized? I don't know. In fact, I don't understand why it's surprising that I can do that. I didn't make the rules, and I'm progressively learning them. All that I can tell you is that the neurons in my brain work differently from the norm. And that's why I am who I am. There will be much more discussion on this later on.