Education

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  Education! The simplest and most challenging thing one will go through in one's life. Simple because all you have to do is sit down and read a book on a subject you know nothing about and question what you are reading allowing it to shape you, along with gaining hands-on experience by practice or trade. It’s coming across a problem and wanting to solve it. It’s the hope of finding something new or creating something new.   So, what’s challenging about it? Is it commitment? Or is it the expectation?   What is more intimidating?   If you find enough interest in something, and make it essential to you, you will commit to it with no problem.  The essentials are budgeting money, cooking food, and whatever else is needed to survive and stand alone.   Unfortunately, the classes that teach this are not normally required.  The requirement is to find Y’s X. Let me tell you something: I have not needed to find Y’s X since my junior year of ...
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Short visit to Maryland

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I apologize for not posting last week. Let's just say I ran like a hobbit and went on an adventure. I went to Maryland for a wedding and a short vacation.  Here are some photos of the places that I had the pleasure of visiting. Some of these photos will be available for purchasing fairly soon on: https://www.naturallynaturephotography.com/
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    Maryland was wonderful. My husband and I went for only half a week but got to see so many things in this short time. We took a tour on a few ships such as the one shown below. This was located in the city of Baltimore along with Fort McHenry where we won the revolution and the inspiration for a song that moves the heart of the United States. You know the one; it begins with "Oh say can you see".

    We also went to Washington D.C. for a day. May I say visiting D.C. is more than just a day trip?! There is just so much to see and as always much larger than what is shown on TV. It was a pleasure visiting some of the monuments within our country's capital. 
    As much as I feel the need to hide in a whole and work on a project without interacting with anyone, I love getting out of my shell and traveling to new places and meeting new people. For people on the Autistic spectrum, It is crucial to get out into public and see how the world works and how people interact. People with autism, don't have that automatic ability to know how to socialize or to see the importance of it. We have to learn how to and the logical reason behind human interaction, and getting out into the world is the best way to do so. At least it is for me.

    It's odd to describe.  I never wanted to be alone even though I was ok with being alone. I see people interacting and having fun and wanting to join in but finding it easier to sit in a corner with a book and interact with fictional characters from the books in my head or people watching. It's like having a fogged-up glass wall between you and the thing that you want; you see it but you can't figure out how to get to it.  Luckily I have a large family that always made sure to involve me in every family activity possible. If it wasn't for that I would not be as social as I am today. For a long time my family, family friends, and classmates were the only people that I would interact with. Other than that I didn't feel the need to interact with other people unless they started interacting with me first. 

Again please feel free to leave comments. I love to see your input on your affiliation with autism.   

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