One of my father’s Pearls of Wisdom was that “excuses are for losers”. Although I find myself agreeing with that statement fairly often, I’m (very) well aware that humans are, well, human, and that we have our limitations. This is especially true for people on the Asperger’s/autism spectrum.
What complicates matters is that our limitations are different for each of us. What complicates matters more is that our limitations may change from day to day; what we could accomplish yesterday, we may not be able to do today. And what makes the situation even worse is that some of those limitations may be invisible, and thus, unknown or unrealized. This, too, especially true for Aspie/autistic people.
On the surface, we may appear able-bodied and of capable intelligence.
And yet…there are times when our limitations get in the way of something we want or need to do. We get frustrated with…
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