Tatcho Drom

Journeying Journals of a Jolly Journeyman

The following story I wrote when I was twenty years of age. It was a bit of a breakthrough for me, since, up to that point, I did not consider myself a writer. Hardly! A little insight: I’m Autistic (Asperger’s Syndrome to be exact) and so schooling wasn’t the ideal setting for education for me. Oh, I love to be educated, but the schooling system is a mental killer for me. Still is. On top of this I’m Dyslexic. I don’t complain about these things, I hardly even share them in real life. It is not the way I was raised – to complain. Instead, I was taught to face life and deal with it. So this story is one of those “dealing with it” experiences. Dealing with writing, something I had not attempted seriously up to this point. The literary quality of the following short story, I’ll leave that for the experts to decide. But I can surely tell you that it’s a heartfelt story, an analogy of my life.
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The internet is expanding at incredible rates. With the onset of globalisation we have the world uniting in ways that are both beneficial in numerous ways, but also deceitful in subtle ways. The benefits of the internet are apparent to all:

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