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      "body": "I was reading this horrific story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/domestic_abuse. But it is the underlying message in the story that is so much more appauling. Legislation should be brought it so say that in order to have #children you have to be a responsible parent. Being a responsible #parent doesn't stop at just #parenting your children but also being aware of other people be children or adults who could  your children may feel uncomfrotable being with This is not a case of just feeling shy. Sometimes its just a case of feeling that something is not right that a child will not be able to verbally explain. But it is for you as their parents or guardians to be aware of a change in your children's mood or mannerisms that indicate they do not feel right in the company of someone you think is friendly.\n\nI know from my own experience as a child when  my parents introduced me to one of their friends. 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These feelings would manifest whenever ever I was in the vincinity of any other adult or even children of my own age genre. This is why today abuse should not be tolerated. It causes so much stress for adults who have experienced some type of abuse in their childhood. Be it this abuse has been instigated during their todler years, their #adolenscence or fully grown adults. It doens't matter what the abuse is it is likley to effect that child throughout their life in one way or other.\n\nIt is another reason I had to write my Aspie and Me story, get the message out. On no account can any form of abuse be tolerated. I hope one day in the future will mean you will not be allowed to have children if abuse in your past has affected you in such a way that you might abuse a child or adult in the future. We all need to act now and stop #abuse dead in its tracks before it festers into an unstoppable disease.  \n\nBe you be a man or woman, you have a responsibility to admit whether you have suffered any form of abuse. The worse thing you can do is shun it, hide it under the covers hoping it will never surface then decide to fall in love, father or mother children and hope you past never re-surfaces. Regrettably, the chances are no matter how emotionally strong you are, your past will manifest itself into the presence.\n\nWhile reading the above horrible article it brought home another appauling story, that affected me personally that I have mentioned in an earlier blog. It concerns a friend who went through two marriages hoping his wives could give him a child or two. They couldn't so he went and found a wife who could. \n\nThis friend was amongst my most trustworthy people I knew. Although more recently I hadn't seen him as regularly as I used to, when I used to we travelled abroad on business together and to far away places around the world.\n\nNow he was a family man enjoying the fruits of parenthood. Never in my wildest dreams would I think something from his past would affect his ability to be a responsible father or that a terrible tradegy was in the making. He was a very financially successful man unusual that he had no material interests, but he also had a very quiet temperament that often worried me wondering what was going on inside of his head during this quiet moments. When we travelled we were often in a car together for days and hours would past and he would say nothing. My #aspergers found this trait of his very challenging to get on with. \n\nSomething also must have gone very wrong in his marriage, his children now at junior school, for whatever reason he was no longer the happy parent or possibly husband. Mentally he had snapped and apparently tried to take his life on more than one occasion.\n\nRemembering those times we were travelling and his extremely trying invisble quiet moments he must have been undergoing enormous mood swings. Perhaps he didn't like the way his wife was raising their children. He had waited so long to have children than he was no youngster only beginning Fatherhood in middleage. I can only think something inside didn't make him the ideal parent. \n\nOf course I am writing this in hindsight as the inthinkable was about to happen when he loses control of his mind. 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      "body": "If you were to read the bio about my story at www.aspieandme.com you might be asking the question, \"wouldn't you be better off if you didn't have Aspie in your life? You could add things like, he is the cause of everything you don't want in your life, your fears, your anxieties, your failures, your lack of confidence, your inability to recognise consequences of your actions where you have come close to ending your mortality\"?\n\nI actually wouldn't disagree with you except for one problem I would have to over come, how can I be without all of the upsets he causes but at the same time enjoy all the thinking out of the box ideas that keep me alive. You see Aspie is also the excitement in my life. He has an extraordinary talent to surprising me with skillsets I wouldn't believe possible at my age, to be incredibly physically fit and getting fitter by the day given that he has so many deficits in abilities that I sometimes wonder if what he enables me to achieve is sometimes just not worth the effort. \n\nHowever, lets now take this problem of mine and turn it into a challenge. Because Aspie see's our world out of neuro-diverse eyes, he also considers our life as one big experiment. About a decade ago I was introduced to the life coach @rasheedogunlaru, you can see him in action by visiting www.rasaru.com. At the beginning of this paragraph I have begun the sentence including the word problem. Rasheed taught me to replace any negative word like problem or obstacle with the word challenge. He said to me invariably it is easier to succeed with a challenge than a problem or obstacle because a challenge is doing something positive and the former words are doing something negative. My challenge which I do admit has not occurred yet is getting completely back in control of Aspie.\n\nThink of Aspie like a wild card. This past summer he caused me much grief, put me in hospital. Sometimes I just wish I could have him held onto tight reigns and I hope a lesson has been learned because returning to what occurred would be akin to me seeing if there was life after death. There is plenty of stories within the Aspie and me Book where coming close to finality occurred several times. Maybe I would be better off comparing Aspie to a cat with nine lives. The trouble is I haven't been counting how many I have lost and it might be the case that I need to be a cat with much more than nine lives. \n\nAround a month ago I definitely came as close as I would like to certain death. You read thankfully not to often about cyclists who meet their untimely death and I was a hairbreadth away from that actually happening. \n\nOne of the positives Aspie has is being able to see round the corner because he has exceptional peripheral vision. He could quite easily stumble into something directly in front of him but find it far easier to spot something he needs to see far away. \n\nWe were cycling along a side street as it met up with a three lane dual carriageway. I looked to my right to make certain it was okay to turn left and cycle fast down the hill. But this is where Aspie takes control. You remember I wrote in the last paragraph great peripheral vision, this is all and well something that has saved my life on more than one occasion, but this time it didn't. \n\nHow many penalty charges I pick up caused by Aspie's inability to read a sign or to notice it is illegal to drive in a bus lane because he fails to be aware of the lane. Hurtling down in the inside lane it wouldn't have mattered if the vehicle that was in the same lane was only doing 20 mph it was doing probably in excess of double and we had just turned into it. I literally had to close my eyes and pray. It was only after the vehicle passed, had felt the swish of air as it did that I realised how lucky I was still alive, the vehicle was one of the @NationalExpress coaches. No doubt somewhere there is a driver who told a story about how a hapless cyclist cycled directly into his path and he hoped he wasn't killed on the spot. I was wonder whether @nationalexpress train their drivers to cope with trauma's such as Aspie's almost caused.\n\nAnyway let me take you into Aspie's world, share with you a little more of his antics so you might be able to appreciate him under a better light. You might be I'm not so sure and in my book Aspie and Me, my character Hartley certainly does not appreciate him being in his life whatsoever. You will have to appreciate too that I did not know of Aspie's existence until I was 49 years old although I did suspect some fiend was destroying my life. But I have to be careful what I say, if Aspie is listening he would be asking me why I am comparing him to the Devil and my reply would be not me but Hartley. \n\nAspie was very jealous of what everyone else had and he didn't. They lived in mansions and drove Rolls or Bentley's and he lived in a penthouse flat. This flat was a wonderful choice, it cost back then in 1974, £35,000 and from Hornsey Lane in Highgate in North London it offered spectacular views to the south across the entire basin on London and to the north the suburbs of North London. My only wish was he could have just afforded another ten grand and got a flat right at the top of the hill in one of the more premier blocks.\n\nAnyway with all my antique dealer friends who were either a half or full generation older there was no way Aspie wanted to emulate them in the car he wanted me to purchase for him. This is because Aspie see's his world built for speed. Having already travelled round the world more than once and in first class, including #Concorde more than once Aspie decided to find the not the sort of car you would want as an #antiquesdealer's car, a @Ferrari and his choice was the roomiest 2+2 so that the largest of the Chinese and Japanese vases and jardinieres could fit inside. So you can image Aspie has delivered to him his prized catch, a devil for a devil. You can read the story in Aspie and Me, I am afraid I am not going to tell you the whole story here how he wanted to see what came off better. You've got it, my car or the tree he hit. \n\nMy pride and joy smashed up only 72 hours after purchase. Enough said about the accident, the car spent three months off the road while dealers who had got used to it wondered where it was?  \n\n![IMG_5362.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTCubxqdJnievnp4SCGkn1pXWjNsaJzNqzrYHBt2RC58w/IMG_5362.jpg)\n\nMy car cost ten grand back then, a further ten grand in interest on the loan and ten grand in repairs, great investment and it was sold at the worst time, a measly £2,500 when petrol hit crazy prices and interest was around 23%. Hopefully #Brexit will not see this repeated. Not exactly the cheapest of boy's toys and at 3-five miles to the gallon  when the accelerator was to the floor not exactly the  cheapest sports car to run or to be chased by six police cars along the M5. Exeter to Bristol, 87 miles in 37 minutes and then from Bristol to London it was a similar model Ferrari and the case of who could keep up with who. \n\nLuckily back then police cameras were in their infancy and the only chances of getting caught out was a blocked road, thankfully luck was on my side. So on the one hand while Aspie may have been born by the Devil he did bring some excitement into my life. \n\nNow  I must turn to what I don't like about Aspie and a more major incident that could have become more nasty than it actually was. Aspie likes to think he is the jack of all trades when it comes to fitness. Only a couple of years ago he had me indulging in #Brazillianjuijitsu cycling, swimming, working out in the gym and by the time he included #bouldering and #calisthenics, something had to go. Anyway during the course of the spring he found out another #sport he wanted me to take on. Something you would have thought a twenty year old would be better doing and not someone who was more than half a century. It was a sport where there were more chances of accidents occurring and every chance of bones being broken. But Aspie sadly does have his faults that can impact me detrimentally the hard way.\n\nAbout seven years ago was in a relationship with a lady who had a cabin in the mountain resort of #Idyllwild. In my story aspie has this terrible fear a Tyrannosaurus is out to get him. Now you might be wondering why I am mentioning a T-Rex, what relevance could this be in this part of my story. A few winters before I was doing some skiing in Whistler and the following summer was going to do some mountain biking there. That was until someone tells Aspie the story about a cyclist who was beheaded by a Grizzly  as he cycled down the mountain and the bear came out of nowhere. You see one of the qualms I have with Aspie is that he believes everything anyone tells him. it is up to me to compare whether the story is fact or fiction but when he is in his addictive mood it makes my life very tenuous and scares me. \n\nWhy I liked Idyllwild was because of Hummer Park https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/sbnf/recarea/?recid=26483 to which Aspie has had me hike to the summit a couple of times once without any water on board is the way he likes to precariously travel sometimes, just like he had us run out of fuel in the lion reserve in South Africa. All of this can be read in the Aspie and Me story; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aspie-Me-Laurence-Mitchell/dp/1912256274\n\nAnyway one day while having dinner at  Cafe Aroma a favourite haunt of Herb Jeffries until a few years ago the eldest surviving member of Duke Ellington's Band whom I had fond memories of at his numerous poetry evenings. There is a room in the restaurant dedicated to him. Take a look should you visit. What make's www.cafearoma.org so special is jazz groups play their everyday and the have a wonderful art gallery supporting many artists. \n\nAnyway I meet these two guys who ask me if I want to watch them do some rock climbing on Tahquitz rock the following morning and then offered me to give rock climbing a go. Although I was concerned about the risk of injury Aspie had me climb up a vertical rock face 150 feet off the ground at around 8,000 feet above sea level. Although I really enjoyed I never found the time to get heavily involved.\n\nAnyway what I liked about San Jancinto Peak was there were no wild animals like bears or ,mountain lions and if there were they were never seen so that made Aspie feel safe and allowed me to wander around the mountain area. \n\nhttps://socalhiker.net/hiking-mt-san-jacinto-via-marion-mountain-trail/\n\nAnyway I just wish someone could have warned me, watch out Aspie's about. Words I needed to listen to, but words Aspie rarely allowed me to acknowledge. Coming down about 2,000 feet from the summit Aspie decides there could be a shortcut, a way down although a lot steeper it could cut a couple of hours of our descent. However in between this narrow ravine that was the way down was this tree trunk. Now until a mistletoe had become embedded into my right leg I never knew something as small as that could cause damage. Worse Aspie forgot to inform me that it was important I have a tetanus injection because the last thing I needed infection to set in and by then from the calf downwards the was quite a bit of blood fortunately more on the surface than anything else.\n\nIt was only after a good nights sleep and someone saying have you been to the hospital that I decided I had better. Hence something Aspie is blind to as I more recently had to learn the hard way this summer when Aspie decided to try out his own version of @parkouruk on a wall by a local park. 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It was Aspie who answered, what do you mean hot, my leg feels warm, can't really tell whether the area around the wound is any hotter, so guess what, my Mother, sisters said if I were you best get it checked out the last thing you need is an infection.\n\n\"Exactly\", I thought. Unfortunately sometimes winning against good advice is something Aspie doesn't adhere to and my left shin was looking in quite a mess, the reason for the leaf might be self explanatory using nature hoping it is comforting.\n![shin injury bloody.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTFNPn6huj5cVtNJk3jZ783PqoH5BrogyvQP7eN8xCkDC/shin%20injury%20bloody.jpg)\n![shin injury.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTBJnc2SrNDG5tRVdds1WK9CRxQCiwC7niRvDEXU4qfV6/shin%20injury.jpg)\n\nI know you can guess what happens next Aspie believes my injury is non emergency and it takes me over a week before I get myself into emergency, the wound should have been stitched and it was too late for that, I now had a hole in my shin and all in all I spent the next three months wonder if I would lose my leg as the antibiotics were having little joy with the onslaught of bacteria. Worse was I missed one of the best summers in Britain for a long time, missed going for a swim in the sea and what did Aspie have to say? 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      "body": "My name is Laurence Mitchell and I am new here on Steemit with only one previous post to my name. It is important you know a little more about me although googling me you can find out that there are numerous articles about my life. Basically I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome by the Priory Hospital London back in 2002 aged 49, I am now 64. One of the things I hope you will learn that my posts are transparent although there will on occasion as in this one be similarities between this post and others but on sites that are mine such as www.aspieandme.com\n\nI recently wrote a book called Aspie and Me. ![ASPIE AND ME.jpg] that was only published on October 24th of this year. In my opinion it took exceptional courage to write the story because when it was originally written some five or so years ago and edited many times over the years, I was left with a dilemma. There was too much personal stuff that related to my relationship with those that I cared about and I needed to keep them completely out of my story. \n\nIn writing about my Book Aspie and Me, it is the first of a trilogy of books and it looks at the life of an Autistic Man(Me) from the self's perspective. \n\nWhat I have achieved I am  not aware has been done before, certainly not focusing on the autism spectrum. I decided to split up the 'self and that of the 'Aspie self'. How many conversations I have had with psychologists, psychotherapists, neuro-typicals (non-autistics); Is it actually possible to split up the Aspie mind to the neuro-typical mind, what part is responsible for certain thoughts and thinking etc? But this is the emphasis in the story. There are included in the book many examples of the manner in which Aspie's think, the way they speak or put words together that differ from the norm as there are examples of why Aspie's cannot relate to how generally speaking Neuro-typicals think (non-autistics_ Then there is the question you might ask me what is the norm? This is very debateable just as asking me is there a Mr and Mrs Average.\n\nIf you were to look back into my past you would learn that I had developed for me two different web platforms. Many years ago I had an antiques restoration consultancy and I had patented the image of Humpty Dumpty with a big smile on his face. My Humpty was a happy Humpty because he had found someone who could restore him to his former glory. My two web platforms that were developed; www.lifewithoutlabels.co.uk and www.lifebeyondlabels.com made use of the  Humpty image as the antithesis of the original. I decided to change the idea behind the story. My Humpty was a happy Humpty because he no longer was worried about falling off his wall or any wall for that matter because he had learned how to fall or rather land safetly and therfore not end up as a cracked egg. \n\nIt is of my opinion this is one of main stumbling blocks for people diagnosed on the autism spectrum. As children they may well be diagnosed as lower functioning autistic or higher functioning autistic or Aspergers. \n\nWhen I was diagnosed back in 2002 there was so few diagnostic labels compared to today. Primarily Aspergers, Autism and a small number of well known similar disorders or conditions like OCD, ADHD, ADD, Tourettes etc but not that many more. \nThere were far fewer if any web platforms that supported people on the spectrum. When I had my diagnosis I struggled to get my private health insurance to pay for the costs of diagnosing me because they decided Autism or Aspergers was a chronic illness and my health cover did not include for chronic illnesses. I responded by asking them to prove what evidence they had that Aspergers and Autism was chronic. It was inevitable that they couldn't. \n\nEven so my diagnosis took some three months of repeated psychiatrist visits. My Diagnosis can be read at http://aspieandme.com/comments/. But more recent research due to collaboration with Dr's of Psychology have informally established Alexithymia should have been included with the original diagnosis. But I don't think Alexithymia was main stream back then only appearing more recently in the past decade. Now it is thought of as one of many personality disorders that has a varying intensity. However this can be said of both autism and aspergers. It affects every individual differently.\n\nLooking back at my own life it is very probable I was somewhere on the lower end of the spectrum until the age of around six. Although I was verbal, my parents sent me to elecution lessons because I could not pronounce any word beginning with Th. I refused to use the toilets at school and this went right back to nursery school. I had weird habits, apparently while walking I could only do so if this included touching my knees and ankles. At some point between nursery school and the early years of Junior shool I grew out of \"lower\" functioning\" to \"higher\" functioning but exactly when that was, is debatable.\n\nWhen I look back at my life I see myself as a very vulnerable child who lacked confidence in the presence of other people. This meant I was bullied from an early age. To a certain extent this lack of confidence is still with me today and sometimes I get rather embarrassed, act defensively because I do not feel 'right' in my body as though I am looking at myself from the outside, scrutinising my every action. How many times I have run away because I wanted to run away from myself, didn't like what I saw in the mirror even though there were no mirrors around. I used to believe I suffered from every phobia under the sun unaware these phobias would be described today as meltdowns.\n\nIn short if I had to describe the roles of Aspie and Me in a sentence or two it would go like this: Me is the part of me that is calm, can remain the observer in difficult situations by taking a step or two back to check his immediate surroundings while Aspie is the part that will panic if he does not understand. He may be blind to people right in front of him but his peripheal vision is outstanding. Where Aspiecan excel, is his out of the box ideas, some of which have come via irrational thinking. \n\nWhere people may mis-recognise and register an Aspie as doing something innapropriate, this may be because he is blind to what is expected as norm by the neuro-typical population, just see's everything directly in front of him from his/her perspective.  \n\nSo what is Aspie and Me really about? Yes my life told by the main character  Hartley who plays my part (Me); fictionised The idea for it to be portrayed as a pschological thriller is based on the true life story of an Aspergers businessman who was convicted of murder since there were similarities between him committing murder and the incident Aspie got himself in that is portrayed in the chapter Schadenfrueds.  The purpose of this inclusion of a 'murderer', is to emphasise to the reader that Aspie's may have a tendency not to foresee serious consequences that could have a negative outcome to their health because within their diagnosis will be vulnerability traits they will be blind to. (https://steemitimages.com/DQmPRDDAyv4uQJsgp89pvYjXpDMn7CMj9BfkWY5JByWHkUE/ASPIE%20AND%20ME.jpg)A psychological thriller based on true life experiences(Authors). Photos on this post have also been copied from the Aspie and Me Platform. \n\nIv'e mentioned the main character, Hartley; although you might think Aspie's part should be equal to Hartley's, it isn't, because Hartley see's Aspie as a thorn in his backside most of the time. However there is another character that represents another part of Aspie's world; a real live Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I know what you are going to think, I can't be serious? But if you were to read my book you would begin to realise Tyrannosaurus is responsible for the more intrusive anxieties that plague Aspie.\n\nThe other main character is Rea. Rea is Aspie's confidant, knows all about Hartley's entire past since Hartley has left no stone unturned including the unmentionable, to which he blames Aspie's entirely. \n\nTo view my full life story I encourage you to visit www.aspieandme.com but in short I left school without any decent qualifications and my only three jobs of being fully employed lasted a maximum of three days. It was my teenage stamp collecting that saved my bacon and until I was twenty three years old was a philatelist. My mother already in the antiques trade stimulated by interest in antique dealing. Like most other antique professionals that I know of it is a job that does not end at retirement age and invariably will go on until I am physically incapable of buying and selling unless something comes along that changes this.\n\nThroughout my career in the antiques trade I have dealt with mostly smaller items, porcelain and pottery, English, European and Chinese and Japanese works of Art with a specialism in Meissen porcelain, many videos I have authored can be watched on Youtube or Vimeo and watch out for my blogs about antique porcelain in general. While there are some amazing stories about Aspie's antique escapades in my book and the story tells about my lust for living life to its fullest, this is one of my latest photo's of Aspie doing what Aspie loves to do, be the extravert in me.\n\nI was born Laurence Paul Julius Mitchell on the 20th June 1953. My middle name Julius was in remembrance of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, a Jewish couple who were executed after being convicted of conspiring to pass American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.\n\n![Incubator.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZQTsfpkyHPGJZ4UZZDYiSu9wpU9Sm1tvoKRkZmGK8vvP/Incubator.jpg)\nI was born six weeks premature. As pictured, I am in an incubator being watched by my mother. \n\n![playing with teddy.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSGF4QJgfLb7RH4k1hcDpJK2mvAenh7Sh8GTXTKTiaiKx/playing%20with%20teddy.jpg)\nHere I am aged around 6 months playing with my favourite friend teddy.\n\nI had hoped my teddy bear remained with me throughout my life. Teddy lasted until I was in my mid-teens. I would have liked to have kept him in perfect condition and as much as Aspie may have been affectionate towards him, pulling and prodding his limbs he would be showing visible signs of wear and tear. Then the inevitable occurs and I whole heartedly blame Aspie, teddy goes for a walk to never return. Aspie has no idea how much torture I endured over teddy going missing. My relationship with Teddy was very much the child in me, who I would cuddle, take to bed and he would be my comfort, whenever the need arises. Most likely like any other kid I treated him like he was a part of my family always there for me whenever I beckoned until that last unfortunate day yet so dear to me. \n\nNo doubt my emotional attachment missing Teddy could be compared to losing my wife traumatised for quiet a few years, time tries to heal but does it? Just think if there could be a missing teddy bureau how wonderful that would be for all kids who had lost those they cherished.\n\n![mischief in barrow.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPonjjCAKvnWquAPo7MhbXV2PTaPhhVnbdf73p2rYjx4a/mischief%20in%20barrow.jpg)\nThis photo of me aged around 18 months standing in a wheel barrel might look innocent enough but unbeknown to me such stunts would become regular with Aspie. It would begin as a prank  that did result being hospitalised on numerous occasions with Aspie rarely glimpsing a thought it could be his doing. \n\nUntil the age of three, we lived in a three bedroom semi-detached home in the Jewish area of Finchley, in London, United Kingdom.\n\n\"While I was at Nursery School, my teachers noticed that I had confidence and security issues and these traits of Aspie's followed me throughout my life. I had a fondness for my own company, rather than sitting playing with the other children in the class. Teachers would find me sitting alone gazing into a wall where Aspie  could find satiety in exploring an endless world beyond (This world would once I began reading science fiction and fantasy call the Aspie continuum) today a concoction of Star Trek, Star Wars and Dr. Who)\". Nevertheless my mother thought of me as a happy child.\n\nThis is a photo of me on Bournemouth Beach shortly before I broke my arm.\n![waterbaby.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaYo7PDjSJUBpVzHdL9VoeKeWdqYj8SU7PZecX3qTwUHR/waterbaby.jpg)\n\nBy the time  I was three, we had moved to a larger house just round the corner because my mother was pregnant and this is the house where I grew up and where my mother continues to live today. The house is in a street where all the neighbours know each other and although, as a child I mingled with the other childre in the street, other than these my only other friends were two boys I met at Junior school who lived in a neighbouring housing estate.\n![8 camourflaged.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXs11U8urN2mrWjCf7WvcC65BiEP3zZjpvujU1xByLe6b/8%20camourflaged.jpg)\nHere is a classic photo of Aspie camourflaged into the wall.\n\nFor the first ten years of my life my father had a children's book publishing company with his partner Bob Tyndall who was the eldest surviving artist for Enid Blyton and responsible for many of the illustrations of the Noddy series. Sadly, he passed away in 2012. There were times when I preferred him to my father and saw him as a replacement father figure, which had I known was more a concocted idea of Aspie's, but it adversely affected my relationship with my father throughout my life.\n\nEver since Aspie decided to go for a walk on his own aged a 3 when his grandparents momentarily took his eyes off him and he was gone, (many scary examples can be seen throughout my childhood in my book Aspie and Me)\n\nAfter my years at Nursery and Junior School I fared no better at my Comprehensive School. The undiagnosed Alexithymia disorder  created a labyrinth of emotions I was unable to filter and I was regularly bullied.\n\nHaving failed my Eleven Plus exam, whatever occupational therapy I was receiving was of little benefit finding me the ideal  school with Hampstead Comprehensive some four miles away being the only school  to support did nothing to thwart the painstaking time for my mother to find an alternative and there would be further bullying because of my  yet to be diagnosed learning and communication difficulties. Worse was my first year at school would see me traumatised until halfway through the second year; I was to be tormented with a congenital condition in my arms that mimicked paralysis.\n\nSadly, this period of my life had serious implications for me, given the horrible things that were in store for me particularly, missing the majority of sex education lessons at school. This was perhaps the conduit for Aspie developing a terrible fear of female body parts after my run-in with a paedophile at the age of twelve.\n\nPART TWO: DEVELOPMENT - YOUTH AND PHILATELY \n\nWhile the trauma of my encounter with the Paedophile would take me many years to recover( I wonder if we do ever recover, perhaps just ecome more aware of our coping mechanisms) I had enjoyed learning the piano, since the age of five up to grade eight aged 14. Aspie only allowed me to play if we were on our own and no one was watching. Little did I know music would come to my rescue in my battle with Aspie’s tumultuous emotional tidal waves that confronted me continuously.\n\nDuring the summer holidays after the end of the duration of the last spring term at Junior school,  I was already showing an acumen for doing more than the average paperboy. I had a job working for a friend of my parents who had a Dutch cigar importing company.\n\nAfter my first year of Saturday jobs, I succeeded in getting a 100% pay rise; from 10 shillings to £1 an hour. If I thought I knew where my skillset lay so early on in my career at school I could not have been more wrong. Unable to be aware much of this inability to create positive learning skills was all of Aspie's doing. When it was time for all of the other classmates to do their GCE's I being at the lower end of the class stats as far as who was top of the class teachers decided I my lack of enthusiasm of every subject other than music meant the lower graded CSE was all I was fit for. \n\nI am sure they knew of Aspie otherwise I wonder how they could be correct with their assumption when it came to my exams Aspie really caused to to fail, lucky to get three basic C passes. When I was ready to leave school with only three CSE exams, it looked as though my career path was set to be a draughtsman; the alternative was sweeping the streets.\n\nHowever, I am pleased to say my childhood hobby of collecting stamps saved my bacon.  By the time I left school aged 17, I had two years of experience of buying and selling stamps and for the following six years enjoyed a career in Philately. \n\n![21 yr old leather jacket.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmenoZeU5bs1m7ftnyzwTrH5z2cyf9EScPsvNNRCYtxqRU/21%20yr%20old%20leather%20jacket.jpg)\nIn this picture of me wearing a leather jacket I am looking very pleased with myself. Except I shouldn't have. A few moments earlier while driving my vovlo estate home, Aspie managed to have a head on collision at the bottom of our street. Our road was quite narrow especially if vehicles were parked either side. I felt very sorry for the driver we hit, there was no room for either car to pass. Definitely Aspie was in the wrong and there were plenty of witnesses, pushed the poor buggers engine block into the passenger compartment was how strong the collision was. Aspie was pleased none of the witnesses would come forward. \n\nLittle did I know there were going to be plenty more prangs in the months to come, including quite a few during my antiquing years(that's the only trouble being a ceramics dealer) china doesn't fare too well in car accidents.\n\nMy interest in antiques was stimulated during my philatelist years, my mother already had her own antique unit, which she shared with a Scottish business partner who Aspie certainly could not stand because of her accent; another Alexithymic trait.\n\nPART THREE: MATURITY - BUSINESSMAN AND ANTIQUES\n\nMy first antique shop was a small lock up unit two units away from my mother’s shop in the antique centre known then as the Flea Market in London's famous Camden Passage Islington close to the Angel Station on the Northern Line. Today, part of Kevin Page Oriental Art. With my profits from buying and selling escalating within eighteen months I moved to a larger shop at 14 Pierrepont Row and my mother and her partner moved to larger premises at what was known then as the Tram Shed,now occupied by Sofa.com.\n\nThe main source for my purchases was Bermondsey Market, just south of Tower Bridge, where hundreds of dealers from around the country would arrive on an early Friday morning to sell  their week’s purchases, while buyers from the entire country and abroad conglomerated around the individual stalls, sometimes several dealers deep. Unbeknown to me Aspie was already getting to be well disliked by my compatriots. Basically there were protocols that dealers followed otherwise they would be shooting each other. \n\nSuch a shame I didn't know Aspie was causing so much embarrassment. It was common practice that the hand, which touched the piece was not available to any other dealer unless the first person turned it down. With Aspie's long, crane-like arms it became clear from early on that I did things differently and didn't abide by the rules of the other gentlemen dealers.\n\n![28 year old mastache.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRV64aYo4eWdYrn1U85Hiu7E8Q8HFzwRbNZ5JoGxPABqf/28%20year%20old%20mastache.jpg)\n\nHere I am again in my late 20's looking like a prized catch for any would be woman who was looking for her ideal man wearing psychadelic  clothing . \n\nBy the age of 25, I had already travelled the globe procuring wondrous objects of ceramic talent. My stock was almost going out quicker than it was coming in and business for me was easy and all-consuming. I was expanding my business very fast; buying and selling everything that was ceramic from English antiques to continental, to oriental. \n\nI moved to a larger rented shop at 27 Camden Passage and after a while, my mother decided to leave her business and come to work for me. While I might have been good at buying and selling, I was unaware that I lacked the required organizational and bookkeeping skills. I branched out opening my second shop at Gateway Arcade, which specialised in English and European ceramics, while at my main shop I dealt in Chinese and Japanese ceramics and works of art.\n\nMarriage Difficulties Death and Worse\n\nAt the age of 40, an opportunity to purchase a freehold property, formerly the French restaurant Carriers Cookshop with four floors of space became available to me. This meant I could consolidate my stock in one outlet and I turned my shop at 27 Camden Passage into a decorative antique shop specialising in home decorations.\n\nMy misfortune in my relationship with Aspie was that he invariably had a backup plan for my life. By the time I was 47, my marriage was teetering on the edge.  My wife and three children moved to Bournemouth, which was her preference because she had watched a documentary about Asperger’s and she needed to get as far away from Aspie as she could. \n\nHowever, it was like living with an unravelled ball of string, which unknowingly tied me to my wife. Sadly, the years ahead were not joyous. My Asperger’s diagnosis, at the age of 49, marked the end of a beautiful marriage. I now had to accept I was out on my own with the biggest troublemaker anyone would ever want to share their life with; Aspie. Two years later in 2004 my three children had to cope with the most terrible news, their Mother had taken her life.\n\nDuring my successful years in business I employed people to help me run my business efficiently with the best PA any employer could ever want. Not only was I a successful antiques dealer with specialist knowledge of many genres in the field of antiques, I was a consultant to a Lloyds Syndicate advising on antique related claims. However, I was unaware that with Aspie firmly concreted into my life, I now had to worry about how I contended with this thorn in my side, as well as the organisational skills I lacked, which lost me customers. My only solace was that during the next few years and my travels to the United States I was able to combine my antiques buying regime with visiting the major Autism Conferences.\n\nI learned as much as I could about the Autism Spectrum Disorder and set up my first website to share the knowledge I learned with as many people as possible. 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      "body": "My name is Laurence Mitchell and I am new here on Steemit with only one previous post to my name. It is important you know a little more about me although googling me you can find out that there are numerous articles about my life. Basically I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome by the Priory Hospital London back in 2002 aged 49, I am now 64. One of the things I hope you will learn that my posts are transparent although there will on occasion as in this one be similarities between this post and others but on sites that are mine such as www.aspieandme.com\n\nI recently wrote a book called Aspie and Me. ![ASPIE AND ME.jpg] that was only published on October 24th of this year. In my opinion it took exceptional courage to write the story because when it was originally written some five or so years ago and edited many times over the years, I was left with a dilemma. There was too much personal stuff that related to my relationship with those that I cared about and I needed to keep them completely out of my story. \n\nIn writing about my Book Aspie and Me, it is the first of a trilogy of books and it looks at the life of an Autistic Man(Me) from the self's perspective. \n\nWhat I have achieved I am  not aware has been done before, certainly not focusing on the autism spectrum. I decided to split up the 'self and that of the 'Aspie self'. How many conversations I have had with psychologists, psychotherapists, neuro-typicals (non-autistics); Is it actually possible to split up the Aspie mind to the neuro-typical mind, what part is responsible for certain thoughts and thinking etc? But this is the emphasis in the story. There are included in the book many examples of the manner in which Aspie's think, the way they speak or put words together that differ from the norm as there are examples of why Aspie's cannot relate to how generally speaking Neuro-typicals think (non-autistics_ Then there is the question you might ask me what is the norm? This is very debateable just as asking me is there a Mr and Mrs Average.\n\nIf you were to look back into my past you would learn that I had developed for me two different web platforms. Many years ago I had an antiques restoration consultancy and I had patented the image of Humpty Dumpty with a big smile on his face. My Humpty was a happy Humpty because he had found someone who could restore him to his former glory. My two web platforms that were developed; www.lifewithoutlabels.co.uk and www.lifebeyondlabels.com made use of the  Humpty image as the antithesis of the original. I decided to change the idea behind the story. My Humpty was a happy Humpty because he no longer was worried about falling off his wall or any wall for that matter because he had learned how to fall or rather land safetly and therfore not end up as a cracked egg. \n\nIt is of my opinion this is one of main stumbling blocks for people diagnosed on the autism spectrum. As children they may well be diagnosed as lower functioning autistic or higher functioning autistic or Aspergers. \n\nWhen I was diagnosed back in 2002 there was so few diagnostic labels compared to today. Primarily Aspergers, Autism and a small number of well known similar disorders or conditions like OCD, ADHD, ADD, Tourettes etc but not that many more. \nThere were far fewer if any web platforms that supported people on the spectrum. When I had my diagnosis I struggled to get my private health insurance to pay for the costs of diagnosing me because they decided Autism or Aspergers was a chronic illness and my health cover did not include for chronic illnesses. I responded by asking them to prove what evidence they had that Aspergers and Autism was chronic. It was inevitable that they couldn't. \n\nEven so my diagnosis took some three months of repeated psychiatrist visits. My Diagnosis can be read at http://aspieandme.com/comments/. But more recent research due to collaboration with Dr's of Psychology have informally established Alexithymia should have been included with the original diagnosis. But I don't think Alexithymia was main stream back then only appearing more recently in the past decade. Now it is thought of as one of many personality disorders that has a varying intensity. However this can be said of both autism and aspergers. It affects every individual differently.\n\nLooking back at my own life it is very probable I was somewhere on the lower end of the spectrum until the age of around six. Although I was verbal, my parents sent me to elecution lessons because I could not pronounce any word beginning with Th. I refused to use the toilets at school and this went right back to nursery school. I had weird habits, apparently while walking I could only do so if this included touching my knees and ankles. At some point between nursery school and the early years of Junior shool I grew out of \"lower\" functioning\" to \"higher\" functioning but exactly when that was, is debatable.\n\nWhen I look back at my life I see myself as a very vulnerable child who lacked confidence in the presence of other people. This meant I was bullied from an early age. To a certain extent this lack of confidence is still with me today and sometimes I get rather embarrassed, act defensively because I do not feel 'right' in my body as though I am looking at myself from the outside, scrutinising my every action. How many times I have run away because I wanted to run away from myself, didn't like what I saw in the mirror even though there were no mirrors around. I used to believe I suffered from every phobia under the sun unaware these phobias would be described today as meltdowns.\n\nIn short if I had to describe the roles of Aspie and Me in a sentence or two it would go like this: Me is the part of me that is calm, can remain the observer in difficult situations by taking a step or two back to check his immediate surroundings while Aspie is the part that will panic if he does not understand. He may be blind to people right in front of him but his peripheal vision is outstanding. Where Aspiecan excel, is his out of the box ideas, some of which have come via irrational thinking. \n\nWhere people may mis-recognise and register an Aspie as doing something innapropriate, this may be because he is blind to what is expected as norm by the neuro-typical population, just see's everything directly in front of him from his/her perspective.  \n\nSo what is Aspie and Me really about? Yes my life told by the main character  Hartley who plays my part (Me); fictionised The idea for it to be portrayed as a pschological thriller is based on the true life story of an Aspergers businessman who was convicted of murder since there were similarities between him committing murder and the incident Aspie got himself in that is portrayed in the chapter Schadenfrueds.  The purpose of this inclusion of a 'murderer', is to emphasise to the reader that Aspie's may have a tendency not to foresee serious consequences that could have a negative outcome to their health because within their diagnosis will be vulnerability traits they will be blind to. (https://steemitimages.com/DQmPRDDAyv4uQJsgp89pvYjXpDMn7CMj9BfkWY5JByWHkUE/ASPIE%20AND%20ME.jpg)A psychological thriller based on true life experiences(Authors). Photos on this post have also been copied from the Aspie and Me Platform. \n\nIv'e mentioned the main character, Hartley; although you might think Aspie's part should be equal to Hartley's, it isn't, because Hartley see's Aspie as a thorn in his backside most of the time. However there is another character that represents another part of Aspie's world; a real live Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I know what you are going to think, I can't be serious? But if you were to read my book you would begin to realise Tyrannosaurus is responsible for the more intrusive anxieties that plague Aspie.\n\nThe other main character is Rea. Rea is Aspie's confidant, knows all about Hartley's entire past since Hartley has left no stone unturned including the unmentionable, to which he blames Aspie's entirely. \n\nTo view my full life story I encourage you to visit www.aspieandme.com but in short I left school without any decent qualifications and my only three jobs of being fully employed lasted a maximum of three days. It was my teenage stamp collecting that saved my bacon and until I was twenty three years old was a philatelist. My mother already in the antiques trade stimulated by interest in antique dealing. Like most other antique professionals that I know of it is a job that does not end at retirement age and invariably will go on until I am physically incapable of buying and selling unless something comes along that changes this.\n\nThroughout my career in the antiques trade I have dealt with mostly smaller items, porcelain and pottery, English, European and Chinese and Japanese works of Art with a specialism in Meissen porcelain, many videos I have authored can be watched on Youtube or Vimeo and watch out for my blogs about antique porcelain in general. While there are some amazing stories about Aspie's antique escapades in my book and the story tells about my lust for living life to its fullest, this is one of my latest photo's of Asoie doing what Aspie loves to do, be the extravert in me.\n\n![BD3B89A6-BF97-4365-A2AE-87B7F1F2D5EF.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRB5QTmr5YznZ8rhvLZRJSj6f8r5hiiC8XKR3LRfuCkGm/BD3B89A6-BF97-4365-A2AE-87B7F1F2D5EF.jpg)",
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      "body": "thats a great way of looking at it beat is very good for the brain you should goodle Annirudh Patel. In one of his researches he video's a parrot dancing to the beat. Apparently our brain is geared up with positivity when we are in tune with the beat.",
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