Aspergirls on Marriage and Cohabitation

Getting back to my discussion of the book Aspergirls (see my other posts here), let’s talk about being married and living together. I have been avoiding this topic because it is a difficult area for me. My husband and I have had a lot of ups and downs in our almost twenty years of marriage, [...]

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Aspergirls and Work

So, it’s been a while since I have discussed the book Aspergirls, but I do still plan to get through the whole thing on here. I most recently wrote about Higher Learning, here and here, and the next chapter in the book is on the topic of Employment and Career. Here are a couple of [...]

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Aspergirls and Higher Learning, Part Two

So I had started writing out some of my thoughts about college the other day, intending to pull out some of what I read in the Higher Learning chapter of Aspergirls, and my darn mobile app published the post instead of saving it as a draft. Ugh! I realized recently that it has been 20 [...]

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Aspergirls and Higher Learning, Part One

Oops! This was supposed to be a draft but I am using a mobile app and it published it instead. I guess I will continue my thoughts on this topic more later. For the most part, I loved college. Although there were difficult parts and I was socially awkward, I had always enjoyed school and [...]

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On Friendships and Socializing

I come to this chapter of Aspergirls with churning emotions right now. I vacillate between desperately wanting close, intimate friendships and feeling like it would be better to remain isolated and alone indefinitely. I so often want to reach out and even do, but then I pull back when things get just a bit uncomfortable [...]

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