Welcome to my Blog

This really is still under construction, even though I will post it and cause confusion in anyone who actually sees it.

I am planning to blog once a week once I get started – I was expecting to take longer to find out how to set up a blog site and expecting it to take longer to get domain names and stuff. Having never thought about it until fairly recently, it seemed like a big, overwhelming project to get started. Then I received an email – How to set up your Word Press blog in 20 minutes. Who knew? It did take a little longer, because there was an issue with the password generator. But less than an hour later, including the time that it took to watch the set up video – here I am.

I am an adult female Aspie, living in western Canada, who didn’t know there was such a thing as Asperger Syndrome until my late 40’s. Once I had heard of it, I recognized it in myself and had it confirmed. For the time being, I am not going to attach my name to anything. Maybe later, but not now.

I am picking away at various writing projects, including the idea of this blog, but finding it very hard to work and live and do anything else. This makes much more sense after the discovery of Asperger Syndrome than it ever did before, but the difficulties remain.

So, picking away is the operative phrase. I expect that when I get going, I will post blogs on Wednesdays. Maybe I can aim for mid-August – but it may be longer. A word of warning to you and a word of hope for me. It will happen, God willing. This site happened and that surprises me.

Everyone says (all the teaching gurus anyway) you need to picture your reader – figure out your audience. I can tell those gurus are not aspies. I can’t picture anything, really. Only things I’ve seen before. Imaging and “Imagine …” statements don’t do much for me.

“They” also say you need to figure out what you will focus on. It might happen. Aspies are supposed to have narrow interests or things that they focus on. I think my “narrow interest” is learning – anything and everything I can, so that tends to make my focus rather broad most of the time.

Maybe my next post will talk more about what this blog will focus on. If I figure it out. Or at least tell you what the name stands for. Or it might be fun to get people to guess what it stands for. Hint: C.A.R.V.E.D. from H.O.P.E. Any takers?