Because you know that I'll say anything, too, but sometimes, I make you cringe. This post is about work.
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And sex, which are two of the essential areas of life one needs to be able to function in before you can feel like a normal adult. And both sex and work are governed by a set of rules that many people are able to learn just by being in the world. Asperger Syndrome compromises one's ability to read nonverbal social cues. I study people, make notes for myself, and then test the notes to see what other situations my notes apply to. To get a sense of how awkward this looks, here's a video that is supposed to be a parody of people with Asperger's interacting with each other.
But my family has such a high proportion of people with Asperger's that this video, honestly, is not far from what our life is like. In my experience, the places with the most rules are work and sex.
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So, you can teach yourself the process of becoming better at work by applying the process of learning the rules about dating and sex. I, for example, am great at work rules and terrible at sex rules. So I teach myself using the reverse mechanism. You can tell you need help if you are not having fun. When I think about my sexual history, I think it is me basically not understanding that there are rules. In college, where most people are experimenting with the rules of sex, I was missing them.
Maybe because I was raised by my grandma, I honestly believed that if you had sex, it meant you were getting married. So I lost my virginity to a guy who said he'd marry me. And on that day, I had no idea how sex worked. I don't know why I had not bothered to find out. If you can start by pretending it feels right, eventually it will feel right. After college I posed nude to make money. A guy who paid a lot of money for a shoot looked at me for one second and said that I'm too uptight to be good. Another guy did soft-focus for Penthouse. I signed a release. He told me to undress, showed me a dressing room, and gave me a robe.
I didn't know what to do. I only need one finger to move one inch back and forth to masturbate.
He wouldn't see it. I told him I thought all the other women were faking it for him because masturbation is not visual. Surround yourself with people who can effectively guide you through rules. I tried having lesbian sex. I answered an ad. The professional ballet dancer who had just quit, and to celebrate, she got breast implants.
And me, the aspiring professional beach volleyball player. She spent the whole evening talking about how smart I am and how many books I've read and how strong I am. Just take your clothes off. How are we going to have sex if we keep putting it off? I told her that we were really ineffective together and I thought we needed some guy there with us to run the show. We never did that. We never did anything. If you don't learn the rules for navigating, life gets boring and repetitive.
I am fast-forwarding through things that are largely repetitive of the above situations. For example, there was the guy who asked me out while I was an arbitrage clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He was on the phones, picking up orders, and I'd stand in the British Pound pit, flashing hand signals to him to tell him what was bid and offer. He'd flash back a hand signal like, buy ten at twenty.
Then he started using other sorts of hand signals open-outcry hand-signals are way more than just market indicators, believe me. To get rid of him, I told him I was a lesbian and I only wanted to date him if there could be another woman there, too. That didn't just make him pursue me with more fervor. It made the whole trading floor pursue me. And I had no idea why. Do not get obsessively sidetracked by things that do not require social interaction. So then I get married. We both have Asperger's. We both like reading about sex, but having it is more traumatic. He would not go down on me, so I started writing obsessively about his not going down on me.
Like the time he told me he couldn't do it because he had a toothache. We had sex, but he didn't like that it was messy, and I liked writing about it better than doing it. We had sex two times in six years after we had a kid. And I got pregnant both times because I have studied my ovulation since I was 24, and I'm an ace at sticking my finger up my vagina and 1 gauging how open my cervix is and 2 pulling out some mucus on my finger and checking to see how elastic it is.
Even now I can't help getting excited about ovulation. Go to the bathroom right now and check your cervical mucus.
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If it's elastic you are ovulating. I can peg my ovulation to the hour if I check every half-hour, which I can do because I can stick my hand in my vagina anywhere—even in a job interview, if the person leaves the room to get some water.
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So that's why I was able to have a kid and a miscarriage only having sex two times. Rules never stop coming at you, they just get infinitely more nuanced. And now, here I am with the farmer. At this point, sex should be low pressure for me. I am one of the one percent of women who can have an orgasm just by thinking about having an orgasm. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe because my mom taught me to do Kegel exercises before I even got my first period. I can orgasm ten times before the guy has one. But the nonverbal cues you do to get to the sex really stress me out.
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It seems like a dance. When you date, there's the official dance date you do, which I can handle. I've been dating enough to know you do dinner, talk, go to someone's house, move close, kiss, lay down, get close to sex, go to bed. I know where we are and what's coming next. But if you're married, there's no dance. You are just there, in bed. So the dance becomes a micro dance. There are little cues you give the other person, a careful touch in a spot you don't usually touch, a kiss that is a kiss that means this-is-not-a-goodnight-kiss, a pointed question like, did the kids fall asleep? These are tiny cues that have to come with other, tiny cues.
Just tell me you want to have sex. So we went back to the dance. And I tried to pay close attention to nonverbal cues and then respond with the appropriate nonverbal cue.