Hello there, and welcome to my first 121 blog entry. My given name is Scott Mitchell, but you can call me Yielding. I am a writer,artist and musician from the town of Blackburn in England.

Over the next few days and weeks, I hope to be sharing my views and experiences on a variety of different subjects, but for now I guess it would be a good idea to give you a glimpse of my everyday ordinary life, in the hope that you will understand the perspective from which I view the world.

I am a thirty-five year old man with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition that is simultaniously a blessing and a curse, although recently the latter has been more prominent. In my youth I had numerous psychological mechanisms in place by which I could cope with societal living, but as time has passed and experiences have bitten, such mechanisms have fallen away, leading me to withdraw from society and live a reclusive lifestyle.

I have always watched the world, but now I watch it from a distance, and it seems to me a good vantage point for seeing the bigger picture. My views on politics are non-partisan - I believe in common sense no matter which direction it comes from, although it seems that recently common sense has had little to do with politics and warfare.

I was educated in a Roman Catholic School, and although I excelled in the subject of religion, I have retained none of my original beliefs. I fully understand the reason and need for religeon, and I completely support anybodys right to believe anything they wish, and only hope that such a courtesy will be returned should my own beliefs be called into question.

I speak from the heart, and rarely shy away from controversy. I beleive in instinctive morals and justice, and I look forward to the lessons I will learn from this experience.

All the best,

Yielding.