Read your email

I had read that email is a great way for people with Asperger's syndrome to communicate. It takes the emotion out and allows them to communicate on their own time and terms. Email is definitely the preferred mode of communication for my husband. He will email me even when sitting across from me in the living room. He goes nowhere without his laptop, and is constantly communicating with others, sending interesting articles he reads, making comments on lists, etc.

There are times, though, when it can be very frustrating. I'll get home from work and ask, "Are we doing x tomorrow?". He'll respond, "Did you read your email?" "No, didn't have a chance at work". "Read your email"! If I say, why don't you just tell me what you wrote, he'll get furious and rant and rave about how he spent time on the email, and I should read it. Then, I'll read it, and it will be one or two words that he could have told me in an instant.

Obviously, he is trying to avoid conversation, possibly because he doesn't want to be misunderstood. But I find it frustrating not to be able to simply talk.