Anything, but Ordinary

Feelings and emotions are challenging for everyone, especially if we’re in a situation where telling someone how we’re feeling can’t be said because of what’s going on, but if you have alexithymia, it's a personality trait meaning you have no words for emotion. Not having the right words to express how you feel is hard. You don’t know what to say or what to do. The feelings that we have on a daily basis is frustrating because we don’t understand why it's happening. People w

Terry Fox was a young man who was diagnosed with cancer at 18 years old and due to the type of cancer and where it was located, his right left was amputated. Once Terry recovered, he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. His goal was to collect one dollar from every Canadian. He started his run in St. John's, Newfoundland and he was going to make his way back home in British Columbia. He dripped his right leg in the Atlantic Ocean before he started

Do you think if you went no contact with someone, would you give them a second chance if they were able to prove they respected and valued you as a person? When I think about who I’ve distanced myself from, I wonder if they know about it. Do they take the time to figure out that I’ve taken them off social media or deleted their number off my phone? Do they think about what they’ve done to make someone cut them out of their life? I wonder if people really change after finding

Everyone has days where they feel sad, anxious and overwhelmed, but is considered the blues vs depression. Some people are able to get out of feeling sad. They can pick themselves up by doing something like going for a walk, working out, talking to someone about it, but for other people, getting out of a sad state is more challenging than just going outside. There are things to look out for when it comes to depression and it's something that just doesn't go away after a cou

My brother is getting married today and I never got an invitation. I’ve known about the wedding for months and I was waiting for some sort of message or letter in the mail saying that I was invited, but nothing came. I’m disappointed and hurt that he didn’t acknowledge that he was getting married and that he didn't think I was important enough to get an invitation. It shows that he doesn't respect me or value me as a person. He didn’t reach out to me and ask if I wanted to a

Social media is a blessing and a curse. Some people thrive with social media and create amazing opportunities for themselves, while other people use it to bring other people down. Social media can be good to help promote small businesses, but sometimes, it can get out of hand because one person can say something negative about their experience and it can make or break that business. People become obsessed with trying to get the most likes and views or hoping to become viral

I loved going back to school. I always looked forward to it. Getting school supplies and back to school clothes was exciting. I looked forward to seeing who was in my class and who I was getting as a teacher. As I got older, school became easy for me. I always did my homework the second I got home from school, but when I was younger, there were some challenges. Looking back, you know that it was autism, but it was not a diagnosis at the time. I know there are kids that dread

I grew up watching the Power Rangers. My favorite characters were Jason the red ranger and Tommy the green ranger. Looking back now, I think Tommy might have been my first celebrity crush, if not, one of my first celebrity crushes. It was around the same time I had a crush on Pavel Bure of the Vancouver Canucks. Jason David Frank was the longest running power ranger in the series. He wasn’t supposed to be on the show longer than a few episodes, but people loved him so he rem

Flying for anyone can be overwhelming and nerve wrecking, but with Autism, flying can bring on anxiety. There is a lot going on and sometimes when things are chaotic and/or doesn’t go as planned, someone with autism can start to get anxious. There’s a lot that goes on at an airport and it’s overwhelming especially if you haven’t travelled or flown that much or if you are flying by yourself. There’s noise and crowds of people. Navigating airports can be confusing and intimid

Someone came up with a theory that the premise of The Breakfast Club was inside of the mind of Ally Sheedy’s character, Allison Reynolds. Everything that was in the movie was made up by her. Each character was a stereotype of a high school student with Allison being the loner, the outcast, the basketcase. Allison didn't have any friends so she created them in her head using high school stereotypes. Several popular fan theories surround the 1985 classic The Breakfast Club. T