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Dietary Changes Part: 2

  When I was in high school, during my second year, I found myself eating more fried foods and drinking more milk than usual. I thought it was okay, not the healthiest, but what school provides healthy food? They love promoting it, but they don’t necessarily enforce it. Everyone was fine eating it, so what could go wrong? I was eating spicy fried chicken sandwiches and cheese-stuffed pizza, and I learned that dipping them in ranch or blue cheese tasted good. I drink chocolate milk, and on Fridays, I treat myself to ice cream. The year before was exciting, my grades were great, and everything seemed new and exciting. Sophomore year became the opposite. I didn’t understand why, but it was like flipping a coin. Everything was exciting, but everything was boring; topics were not interesting, the teachers were even pissy and annoyingly difficult. On top of everything I was dragging. I felt so fogged up. As if I could sleep all day. My case manager saw what was going on with my cla...

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...