The Autistic Blogger

    When you're out and about in the community, there's now a 15% higher chance of finding someone with autism. Last week, a graph was unveiled to the public which stated that the ratio of individuals with autism, versus the individuals that aren't is now standing at 1 to 59. This community is slowing growing, so it's really important now that more people play a role in learning more about the disability itself, at the very least. From experience, it would be way better for a community in which everyone understands why you're different, and being accepted. Society is not great at all currently, and with these rates increasing, now would be a good time to make a change, for my sake, and everyone else's. People say that being 1 in 59 is the worst thing that can happen to anyone. Hearing it from my family, kids, even parents of children with autism, I now understand that that's not the case. It simply means, we're going to experience the world a little diff...

    Having such amazing qualities, along with others, I've been wondering why a disability is even called a disability. Even though I have a 'disability', it barely affects me in any bad way (in terms of how it affects me, external problems are a completely different story), and I can say the same about others. My cousin for example, doesn't care about what anyone thinks about him whenever he's the only 13 year old in a supermarket playing with action figures or dolls still, he is a very strong individual, and he never gives up on anything he puts his mind into. I've seen amazing stories from so many people with 'disabilities', and from my point of view, being called 'disabled' affects us more than the condition itself. I've had more problems about family, friends, and other things than struggles from my disability itself, which is something that was supposed to give me a huge challenge throughout my life. I now see that that's not the ca...

    Yes I'm high-functioning, or categorized as Asperger's, or however you want to call it. In fact, I'm even on the edge of the autism scale, meaning that I'm really close to actually being considered normal. That doesn't mean life is easy for me however. I face lots of problems and obstacles in my life daily. While a few of them are related to my disability, most of them are related to my normal life, being family problems, adjusting from being a teenager to a young adult, and a slew of other ones, it would be a long list. It's weird how lots of parents with autistic children would want them to be at least at a scale like mine, but my problems are actually even greater than others. My cousin who has mild autism doesn't worry about what others think about him, nor does his family treat him like someone inferior, he lives the life I wish I had. Basically, see it this way. I have to go through problems based on my disability, being RSP (something I hate a lot...

    For those of you that don't know, autistic children in school receive an yearly meeting that involves setting up goals for them, as well as staying updated with the parents of the children. They are called IEP meetings, or Individualized Education Program. I hand't mentioned this before, but I dread these meetings. Why you may ask, because they do the same thing every year, and it's stuff that makes me look and feel stupid. How many credits do I need to graduate? Do I know what classes to take? Have you received help often? I've known the answers before I even came to high school, and the fact that when they check my grades, which is all A's but one B (I hate math so much), they act like this was impossible for me, and when they saw me after they checked my grades, they acted like my grades were a typo. To be fair, that's their loss and not mine, because that's not going to stop me from achieving my goals, but what does make me feel upset is when my mom ...