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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...

Finding One Self Through Conflicts and Goals Part 1

  Happy New Year I want to say it's that time of the year again, but that's kind of a double entendre considering it's a new year. Point is that around this time every year, people reflect on what they went through and have this urge to throw it away just to start new. I wish it would be that easy. My question is why are we so eager to change? Do we really need to be so hard on ourselves by setting a goal that may never happen because they don't fall into our routine and then, later on, beating ourselves up about it? Or maybe you made choices that changed your life and you find yourself reflecting on why did I do that. Why are people so determined to change when we don't like change in the first place? Many people on the spectrum love to keep a routine. Change that routine and all hell breaks loose for us and everything falls apart. For a very long time, that is how it was for me. For 12 long years, I had a routine that was set up for me by my parents and...