RE: welcome to newcomers and other bits

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Hi all,

First welcome all of you who have joined ASPIRES

recently. Pleased to have you. I’ve been

privileged to belong for almost the beginning of the List. Feel free

like all of us to contribute, to ask questions, and for that matter to get in

on the business of answering others’ queries. We don’t know

any of the answers, but we pretend to do so with mixed results. Sure

are some interesting discussions in the process.

I’m a 74 year old Aspie living in Australia, been

married three times, with two grown children. In these my latter years, I

am classified as a professional Actor and Platform presenter. I was

diagnosed AS during my mid/late 60s. Now live with two beautiful

cats in Regional .

For the rest of you, to bring you up to date. My

long projected book is now in the hands of the publishers (in UK). It is

titled Confessions of an Unashamed Asperger – taking the form of Essays

based on my reminiscences and speculations as I’ve presented them in my

lectures, and tossed them round in this forum. According to

schedule, it will appear as an ebook in something like a month and a half, -

with the paperback appearing in some 6 months time. I was

privileged to get a Foreword provided by Professor Tony Attwood, who I’ve

known for several years. If anyone is interested in seeing the

table of contents, I’ll send it to them.

Re my health, with the operation on the spinal cord now 8 months

in the past, I’m walking on my feet reasonably successfully but with wobbly

awkwardness all the time. It could take a couple of years for the

pins and needles to clear up, not to mention the other peculiar residual

symptoms.

And finally, re my beloved cats. I’ve had

Tamino now for about 9 weeks. For short and as the in-house name, I call

him Bruno. (he is a desexed/-microchipped chocolate Tonkinese, with a lovely

nature and magnificent appearance as well as beautiful blue eyes). He

is well settled in and is just starting to make direct friends with the resident

pussy, my longterm lilac Burmese girlfriend Kittles (Felecia if you want to be

formal). They have never had any sort of fight, and got over the

major spitting and swearing after about the first 4 weeks. They have

now had a few games of chasey, and are content to sprawl out in the sun within

a foot or so of each other. And last night for the first time, they

were together sleeping on my bed in close proximity.

Anyway that will do for the moment.

Cheers, Ron.

PS. If you can write a book, Helen, f’reavens

sake, go ahead and do it. If I can, then anyone can. By

the way. Good comments, Helen!