If you're like many autistic-spectrum people, and introverted people generally, people think you hate people/are anti-social but that's not true; we love them in limited doses or we get overwhelmed (sensory overload). The social demands of Christmas can be draining. Sounds like Joni Mitchell can relate. Let this post and song be your river you can skate away on, just for a moment.
Joni's famously quirky, "difficult"; she seems to have turned her back on commercial success since Court and Spark ("Free Man in Paris") and that was 40 years ago! Maybe she's one of us, like many of us undiagnosed. More proof that, like with the diagnosed Steven Spielberg and Dan Aykroyd (his special interest: he is a would-be cop!), Asperger's doesn't have to keep you from success, especially if you know about it.
If anybody still reads this, have a blessed Christmas or Hanukkah and a smashing new year.
