On 6/6/07, Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Asbergers is sometimes referred to as high functioning autism. > > The two kids we know with Asbergers are an absolute kick. Both are quite > verbal and the boy is very intelligent. >
to me, she is so hilarious, but since she looks normal and mostly acts normal and is quite accomplished horseperson/rider, she will in public sometimes come out with the most bizarre inappropriate remarks and people's mouths will fall open when she does it. like one time we were on a ride and there was a woman there with the most ugly old old appaloosa I had ever seen. He was so old his eyelids sagged down and he had bright pink inner lid skin showing like a bulldogs eyes, and he had heavy freckling around his eyes and nose and was greyed out completely snow white and had flaky sunburn on his nose which looked terrible and she was doctoring it. So I am standing there thinking that is THE ugliest horse... he had head and ears like a mule with roached mane sticking up like a zebra. and my autistic friend just suddenly blurts in front of everyone "My GOD that horse is SO ugly!!" and the lady's face just fell and I said to my friend, "Sssh! don't say stuff like that! You will hurt people's feelings!" to which she immediately responded LOUDLY "well if SHE don't know her horse is butt-ugly then SHE'S got a REAL problem." and I am standing there thinking, do I tell her right now, look, my friend is autistic, " do I just let it slide, all that. I didnt know what to do. But later it just cracked me up. its like she says what other people think but are too socially correct to say... she is like a mirror of all our obvious thoughts. One time I didnt see her for almost a year. I had put some weird blue conditioner on my hair to make the grey more "shiny and silver" and it just made parts of my hair a bizarre electric bright blue and i thought oh well, i will just wash it off tomorrow and went on a ride. When I saw her everyone else was like "oh so good to see you after so long how have you been?!" and she just stared at me and suddenly blurted "you hair is blue". after a year of not seeing me. But just shows what everyone was really thinking hhaha. janice-- yipie tie yie yo
