You would think that since I’m awake at 4:00 in the morning, working the graveyard shift would be perfect. Get paid to stay up all night, but after a while, it really started to take its toll. Since I worked during the night, I would sleep all day and because of that, I felt that there weren't enough hours in the day to get the things I needed to get done before I had to take a nap before heading to work for my 12am shift. It was challenging because as much as I liked the id

I follow the rules. If you tell me not to do something, I won’t do it. Depending on the situation, I may tweak the rules to make it work, but if you know me, you know that I am by the book. If the rules aren’t being followed, I feel guilty about it, especially if it will affect me later on, but sometimes I think breaking them once in a while could be a good thing. It could help you or someone else. Driving is a good example of following the rules. They are there for a reason

I never knew I needed a routine until I didn’t have one anymore. Going to school until I was 18 years old was my routine. When I graduated in 2006, I realized that I needed something. I needed to do the same thing everyday. Being able to do something everyday is something that a person with autism/aspergers can control. It could be the smallest thing like getting the mail from the mailbox, going to the coffee shop at the same time everyday or if someone is able to, going to w

We look at the world in a different way. We have our own way of navigating. It may not be the same as you, but we’ll get there when we get there. We are compassionate, creative, intelligent and loyal. We can do so much when given the chance. We want to be able to show the world what we can do. I know people look down on others who are different from themselves. They don’t know what they can’t explain. People may think they know everything there is about Aspergers and Autism,

I knew that my classmates looked at me differently and I knew that they sensed there was something about me that they couldn’t figure out. I had a feeling that teachers knew something, but were either too afraid to ask or didn’t have the skills at the time to really handle whatever they thought was going on. Even from an early age, I knew I was different. I always felt weird and out of place. I felt like nobody understood me. As I got older, I kept to myself and didn’t bothe

I hope people would say that I’m a person who is trustworthy, loyal and dependable. I feel like sometimes I can be all three a little too much and people take advantage of that. I have a hard time saying no. As much as I want to stand up for myself and say no , but there’s always a piece of me that thinks that if I say no to many times, people are going to stop trusting me and think that I’m not as loyal as I was, but if I say yes to many times, then people are going to rel

At first, I didn’t know if I wanted to write what it's like to have Autism Spectrum Disorder and share my experiences living with it or if I wanted to take one of the millions of ideas that have been floating around in my head and write a full length fiction novel, but I thought that maybe writing about my life experiences in my blog would be a lot easier then spending months maybe even years writing a book that may not even get published. My blog could be my book and anyone

There are TV shows and movies that have a character on the autism spectrum it could be Asperger's or it could be any other part on the spectrum but there are thought I know of that I have seen or at least know of and/or watched that as a kid on a spectrum or has the symptoms of Asperger's but they they’re actually said that that character has that one thing. Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory is probably the first person you think of when you hear Aspergers. There’s been n

I did my first play when I was in kindergarten and was part of a few Christmas productions in the second, fourth and sixth grade. When I got to high school I did theatre every year until grade 11. It was a different experience and I wish I could say good things, but it was challenging and difficult. The drama teacher was not a pleasant person to work with and to be around. He had his favourites and those would be the people who would star in the main production. No matter how

Growing up, I always knew I was different from my peers, but I never knew why. I always thought that I was the weird kid because my classmates looked at me differently. I know it showed in what I did and what I said. Being normal as a kid wasn’t something that I did. I had my quirks and mannerisms. Teachers may have known that there was something about me, but I don’t think they had the resources at that time to say anything or maybe they were just nervous about speaking up j