Well it's been a hot minute since I last did one of these. The truth is, I stopped doing these for a while because a) life and b) I basically ran out of ideas on what I should talk about. Now to be fair on myself, I haven't entirely wasted my writing skills since I've been doing film reviews but Thoughts from an Autistic Mind has been as barren as the Sahara Desert. So why did I bring it back? Because I've recently discovered that this has helped people understand ASD better and that it can be coped with. And all I want to do is help people any way I can.
I should probably start by explaining where I've been these past 3 years or so. Well for starters, I moved out of my parents' place. This was a long time coming as I was dying to leave the nest and I finally earned enough to move. I started working at a theatre Box Office which is challenging but it's in a very supportive environment. I rejoined my old church before joining a brand new church which allowed me to reignite my faith.
I must confess, adulting is very hard. Money is tight, I'm struggling to maintain a healthy work-life balance, building and maintaining new friendships is difficult, especially as I'm becoming increasingly introverted and I have to figure out a lot of things just to keep myself running. And yet I don't regret it. I feel a newfound freedom and an immense sense of pride that I was able to pull this off by myself. The biggest surprise to me is that what I'm going through is the same thing as every other adult my age. In essence, I'm living a normal life. Take that doctors who said I would never be able to walk or talk!
Do I have my bad weeks? Oh my goodness, yes! I've just come out of a particularly stressful and exhausting week this week. But I also have a fair amount of good weeks too. It's a fight but one I'm willing to win.
With that cheesiness out of the way, I want to make more posts about living an adult life as an autistic man but I also want to talk more about what goes through my head such my hyperfixations, my general thoughts on real world topics (in a way that hopefully doesn't age like milk unlike some of my old posts). There will be some things I'm unwilling to discuss like politics and anything that involves heated discourse (with maybe one or two exceptions). Other than that, as long as you guys keep me from being distracted, I'm happy to keep going!
