Check checking and check again

'Check checking and check again'

Well I'm very excited as I had some nice comments regarding my first effort - I hope this one is as well received so here goes:

Every time we leave the house the conversation goes like this........

Jon "is the door locked ?"
Me "yes "
Jon "are you sure."
Me "YES! "
Jon "ok let's go"
I then start the engine and drive off
Jon "you sure you locked the door?"
Me in a rather louder tone "YES"
Jon "I'm not sure can we go and check?"

Aaarrrggghhhhh

So I turn car around and drive back to the house and we start all over again !!!


Once I refused to go back and I swore at him loudly ...oops ...all day he worried we had left the front door unlocked in fact he drove me so mad with the constant questions we came home early. So I've learnt it's far easier to just go along with it, this applies to the windows, doors ,kettle and even the toaster that has to be unplugged just in case it decides to toast thin air whilst we are out! All of this is frustrating to say the least but its part of him, I can't change it, so I try and have a giggle, after all I knew what I was getting into very early in our relationship or did I?

I had emergency surgery very early on in our relationship, when I awoke from my operation I was surrounded by hand drawn pictures and a plastic camel! The camel I still really don't understand but from that point I realised Jon was special if not a little different.
I can still remember the ward nurses being more worried about him than me as he appeared to be completely lost and visibly upset when he had to leave, so much so they agreed he could have an extra hour by my bedside! That in my book is love, not the expensive presents, the flashy hotels and meals in restaurants (and the credit card bills that go with it for most of us anyway!) don't get me wrong now and again they would be most welcome!! Jon yes that's a hint but that camel means a lot to me, even now.

It's so easy to get completely sucked into spending copious amounts of money on sparkly diamonds and designer labels but do they really make life so much better? See I don't have to worry about Jon saying he is somewhere he isn't, neither do I worry he is out drinking with the boys. The best thing about living with an Aspie is his almost child like honesty and the fact he is incapable of being anyone else - that is priceless in my book.
I've learnt a lot over the last 13 yrs, I've been present when Jon has been a guest speaker at universities and schools. Often this is to audiences who have also struggled as he has with dyslexia or Aspergers but he is not ill, he has no disorder or disease as i have heard it referred to. He has a difference yes but it's that difference that makes him Jonathan and for that I am glad! But I've learnt too never ask him does my bum look big in this? If I'm not prepared for the reply!