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Out with the old, In with the new!

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  I apologize for being away for a while. You know about that desired change I wrote about. Well, a lot has happened during the past few months. It all started in February when a best friend called me about a job opportunity as a day porter paying $24 an hour with a corporate office company. Instead of working a scattered schedule and fighting to get more hours, I now work full-time with full benefits and a steady schedule. All I do is make coffee for scheduled conferences and all the break rooms, along with keeping track of the supplies. I work Monday through Friday 7-4 and having that as part of my routine feels great. The people that I work with are great too. Everyone talks to me and not to me. I also have the freedom to work on whatever task I need to without people asking me what I am doing unless they are being social with me. No one is pestering me. Also, my boss is great and easy to talk to. I no longer feel uneasy whenever my boss calls upon me. When she does it's mainly

To be or not to be Autistic

  To be or not to be autistic, is the question. I know, I just went Shakespearean on all of you. There are many wanted and unwanted desires of people wishing to be or not to be autistic. I have come across a few people that speculate that they are autistic simply because they feel awkward about themselves and want a logical explanation, and feel that placing themselves on the spectrum is good enough of an explanation. Some claim to have the symptoms for themselves that are or aren't subtle and wonder if should I consider the possibility. Some are autistic but have just never been diagnosed and question why am I the way I am. I even come across parents who want to place their children on the spectrum just because they want them to be special. The desire to be autistic is tragic to me. It's like Macbeth killing King Duncan, just to become king himself but finds himself losing his mind out of paranoia and guilt instead of what he thought would be bliss. You are going to d