Sorry for the lag in blogging...darn that whole life thing. But I am back, and today I am going to choose to discuss something that I don't think anyone really likes over much--waiting.
Waiting. In this world, we wait everywhere. At the dentist, at the grocery store, behind a red light. We wait for paychecks, and letters. We wait for good news--is the baby born yet? We anxiously await to hear if we got into college or got the job. And we wait for the scary and sad--is it a tumor? Was the surgery successful?
The wonderful modern era we live in has provided us with an infinite number of ways to distract and entertain ourselves during waiting. I, for example, have a smart phone and use it to check email, Facebook, play Angry Birds or solitaire or Tetris, and check the news while I wait. In the days before smart phones, I always, and I do mean always, had a book with me so I could read while waiting.
The thing is, as an Aspie, I am constitutionally incapable of waiting without something to occupy my mind. I simply can't do it. In fact, trying to do it drives me just a bit crazy (short trip, pack light, I know). I just get, well, bored. So I find something to do to occupy my brain.
I am pretty sure that this is one thing my Aspie brain has in common with the Neurotypical brain. Do you agree?
I think I am going to do a post on behaviors I've noticed that are probably aspie induced and what are just You.
ReplyDeleteYeah, waiting sucks for all of us, not just for apies!
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