As many Aspies are wont to do, I took a walk through the toy department of Wal-Mart the other day, and I noticed something interesting in the doll aisle. Your "Baby Alive" Doll loves to be with you!... Come close, and watch me wiggle and coo! I say...

A note: When I mention mental illness, assume I am talking about it in the most general way: Any condition that can be diagnosed by a psychologist; psychological, cognitive, or neurological. It takes too long to write that phrase out every single time...

I've been seeing it said around the Internet, mostly on sites where most people know just enough about Asperger's to think there's nothing more to know about it, that Asperger's is an excuse to be mean to people, have no empathy, abuse others, and...

There’s a fairly arbitrary split between people diagnosed “Asperger” and high-functioning people diagnosed “Autism”. The big difference between these two categories is that the people with Asperger’s had speech before three (though it was probably...

Mrs. Johnson's garden was overrun with wild violets. Violets, if allowed to grow and given their way, will quickly turn into a tenacious weed, spreading to cover the entire area with their heart-shaped leaves and small blue blossoms. Mrs. Johnson, who...