Showing posts with label blog questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog questions. Show all posts

Monday, March 3, 2008

Will blogging work for me?

My sister has gotten used to me over the years (especially when I lived out of state), sending her an email and then sending her a follow-up one to clarify the first. I seem to always hit 'send', log off, and then realize she could have taken it the wrong way.


Now I've learned there's a reason for this (Asperger's) but my brain works fast, I type fast, and it seems like things make perfect sense at the time, but since I've known for a long time that I don't think like other people.....


As aspect of my Asperger's is that I'm more sociologically inclined than mechanically or numerically. I see patterns in behavior and events in terms of sociological implications. I also speak in analogies. Does that make sense? I bop my head, sleep with tons of covers, think only in logical terms and only have second-hand empathy. (I have to really think about someone's place to get it and even then....) And every book I've read since has only reinforced the diagnosis--not displaced it.


So I'm overly sensitive to having others not like me. Supposedly kids that were teased unmercifully when young develop what is called a high emotional intelligence. Double that with Asperger's--translates to everything being about my feelings, I guess. Maybe it's that I don't read that clues correctly, I've just learned to assume I've hurt someone's feelings.


So it's funny--(Okay, not really)---that's what my obsessions and my introversion are usually about. I've had to avoid message boards and chat rooms also. I can't comprehend that most people on a message board aren't friends and are leaving me out, everyone takes what I say the wrong way, and people can tell there's something wrong with me. (bobbing my head)


Can someone tell me blog etiquette? Do you say have a nice trip if they're going on a trip and you just posted for the first time? Should I be posting if/when anyone comments?