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Everyday Life
I need to get this all out there in hopes of finding some absolution in how I'm feeling; that is, maybe someone else is feeling this way too and through my struggles I've helped someone else - that would be great.
The truth is, my whole life (I'm 50 this year) I have always felt out of place -...
How do you feel when something unpredictable is happening? How do you cope with it?
Me personally, I love to stim by thinking of songs and characters that I like, I might hop on this website just to distract myself for a bit ^^
Sometimes I find myself drowning in a pool of information, or I'm...
Well, it is here, december 31, 2017, while I'm writing this at 4:47pm, waiting for the year to be over, for the change to date, for going to sleep and wake up in another day which for some people is a day to start change, to forget the past.
While me, I'm still thinking in so many things I've...
I am living on the autism spectrum. I didn’t know until weeks ago. I accepted the diagnosis as one of relief and a gift. It has since taken me down memory lane. In my mind, I have relived episodes of the distant past as well as recent. One of those memories was of a Christmas Eve at Grandma and...
Some years ago I came across one of those 9-11 stories. A story that occurred on that fateful morning when the planes came crashing at the towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania.
A priest was near the location in New York when the first plane hit...
If I could take a single snapshot of myself as a child, it would be of me as a little girl looking out the window watching the children play. A child wishing to join in, but too afraid to step outside and ask "can I play?" Maybe if she had asked, they would have let her join in the circle...
I had a long conversation with an acquaintance (I have a hard time accepting non-special ed people as my friend) my age about my anxiety. I was very surprised how much he cared about me.
From my last entry, I managed to break the cycle!
Back to this entry... I am staying with my boyfriend at the moment, and occasionally there are musicians that come and busk outside. Today the guy playing a steel drum has returned. Usually I don't mind, but considering he's been outside since 9...
I recently started a blog of personal stories relating to our journey in understanding our daughter's high-functioning autism, the lack of accommodations in the public school system and the general lack of understanding of the complexities of each individual with autism. My blog is...