It is a problem when people try to talk to me when I have earplugs in. By the time I notice and remove the plugs, I feel terribly guilty that I’ve understood and responded to them worse than usual.

So this is very fascinating. There is so many things I do that I just thought I was an odd person, but now I am finding out this is a specific kind of thinking. One thing that stands out to me that seems different from what I have seen, well I guess you could say is ‘classical Asperger’s Syndrome’ is the “logical thinking”. I am odd because while I am logical and emotionally disconnected, I AM into fantasy books, but in a logical way, if that makes any sense. I love reading things and picking it apart philosophically! While I love programming for the web, and all it’s logic, I also an INTENSELY creative person and that’s my special skill. I won a scholarship by the time I was 15 for animation. I used to take the VCR and slow the tape down frame by frame and STUDY animation and how each frame could create something so beautiful! I study color, why is it that when additive light shines do the colors mix they turn white, and how do they mix, and why is it that in subtractive light the reflected light mix and turn dark? I have this INCREDIBLE artistic talent, I am very creative, but I like applying it logically. Web design? It’s like heaven for me! It’s the perfect blend of art and science! Right now I have been commissioned to paint a skull on a motorcycle, my mother who’s a nurse commented about how anatomically correct my mock ups are! (a mock up is a color rendering of the design so the client knows what the final version will look like, like a rough draft!)