Shades

Sienna Blythe seemed to be just as normal as everyone else. She had four limbs, two eyes, two ears, one nose and one mouth just like everyone else. Underneath the surface however, lay something more. Sienna in fact had aspergers, a genetic condition that meant she had a little more trouble socially then others normally would.

Thankfully, Sienna had been diagnosed at a young age and her parents were therfore able to start teaching her the things she wouldn't learn on her own from a young age. That meant now, at age 15, Sienna seemed no different to any other person her age.

Aspergers was called a 'disability'. It was labelled as such. It wasn't really a disability though. More a different way of thinking. A different way of looking at the world and in some cases, a different way of doing things. You could say it was like everyone was one shade of a colour, lets say blue, and Sienna was a slightly different shade, so slight that you could hardly tell that Sienna's shade was even different at all.

Although Aspergers had disadvantages, it also had plenty of advantages. For instance, people who had aspergers were often very smart, often in a select few fields with which they were obsessesed and they also often went on to become rather sucesful in their chosen careers and in life.

Sienna wanted to become a phsycologist after finishing high school in the hopes that she could help other people just like her and not that she liked to admit it, but she was well on her way to getting there.