It feels like we had Matthew Perry as a friend. We spend hours watching him and laughing with him. It felt like we knew him personally or at least had a Chandler in our lives. Knowing that he struggled with addiction throughout the run of the show, it doesn’t make it any easier to see such a talented person go through what he did. Matthew was very open about his struggles with addiction, and he hoped that it would encourage and inspire others to get help and to have hope. Ev

When someone with PTSD self-isolates, they are feeling overwhelmed and unsafe in groups. They feel misunderstood, abandoned and alone. They become uninterested in being in groups even when it's friends and family, people they know they can trust. They are not getting social interaction due to not wanting to be around people. If the person is already an introvert, self-isolation may be something they’ve already been doing, but if it’s something they don’t normally do then it's

There are many ways someone can get PTSD. It can happen at any time to anyone. It’s not to be mistaken as shell shock, which appeared in soldiers who had experiences in war. With PTSD, its more wide ranging. Anything be the reason behind someone’s PTSD, anything could be a trigger. Both shell shock and PTSD can be the same thing, they are different in regards of someone’s past and what they’ve experienced, but not everyone that as experienced a tragic or traumatic event may n

It seems like working from home is the new normal since the pandemic. Some people had already had that option before the world changed and I wish I was one of those people. I wished that I had the opportunity to be able to be in the comfort of my own home and be able to pay my bills. I had high hopes that my blog would bring in some extra income. I had hoped that my blog would be able to help me when times would be tough and I needed that extra bit of money, but of course the

I always thought about what would have happened if I was diagnosed with Aspergers when I was in high school, how would my life be now? Would I be more successful because I would have had access to resources a lot sooner? Would I have encouragement from teachers to pursue my interests? Would teachers be able to see my passions and help me get into college? You hear about people who got into specific fields or industries because of a teacher they had in school. They encouraged

There is a stigma about talking about mental health and mental illness. People don’t want to admit that they are struggling. They want to either deal with it privately or pretend that they don’t have anything wrong. The less people know, the better. In recent weeks, I was inspired by Ben Lawson, and I want to be able to do what I can to help people with mental health and mental health issues. Since I’ve learnt that Ben has complex PTSD, I wanted to learn more about it and be

I always wanted to be able to make a little bit of money blogging and I was hoping that it would have happened by now. I’ve looked into how to put ads on your blog, but there are different ways of doing it. I know that I don’t have enough views and readers to be able to live off the income I would get off of my blog, but it would be nice to be able to have that extra coming in. It would be one step closer to getting me into the field I want to get into because there are peop

I know that I’m taking a break from writing, but I always tend to go back to my blog. In fact, when I first started blogging back in 2009, it started off as a daily blog. I wanted to challenge myself in seeing if I was able to come up with a new post every day and at the beginning it worked to a certain point. Looking back, I wish I kept up with it. I felt discouraged to stop because I felt that people weren’t interested in what I had to say. When I say I’m taking a break fr

Because I’m single, I tend to eat out every day. It’s hard for me to plan meals ahead of time because I don’t have someone to cook for or cook with. I don’t have roommates or a significant other, so I tend to eat out. It’s not that I don’t know how to cook, I just don’t have a reason to since it’s just me. I’ll write a meal plan and write a grocery list, but half the time, I don’t actually go to the store even though I live right next door to one. I dread going to the grocer

I went to Disneyland for my 30th birthday in 2017. It fell on a Friday, and I knew that I had to celebrate in Disney. My mom and I made a girls trip out of it and spent the weekend at Disney. She had signed us up for a walking tour called “Walk in Walt’s Footsteps” The heart of the Walk in Walt’s Disneyland Footsteps Tour is an approximately three-hour walk around the only Disney theme park that Walt was able to set foot in during his lifetime. Tour guides use the park as a

You would think of all the times I’ve been to Disney, I would have done a lot of stuff, but there are a few things I’ve never done at Disneyland. I don’t go to Disneyland as often as I would like and with the parks shutting down during the pandemic, it was hard to go. Disney’s been constantly changing. Rides are being upgraded, making room for new rides, it still feels different even if I haven’t been at a Disney park since 2019. It’s something that can’t be helped. Disneylan

I thought that I would be a successful writer. I thought I would have a few books already published. I thought I could bring my stories to life; that’s the world I thought I would be living. I’ve tried countless times to try and outline a book. I’ve tried to do chapter outlines. I really thought that if I had planned, plotted, and organized, I would be able to write a book because I knew where the story was going. In the past, I’ve just written without thinking. I just wrote

I’ve been trying to figure out how to fill my time. Since I’m taking a break from writing, I need something to do. I need to find another way to be creative, but I don’t know what I should do. I don’t know if I should just try a bunch of things to find something or if I should just let a hobby find me. I don’t know if I’ll find a hobby that could eventually turn into a career or would it be a hobby that I’ll get bored with and move on. I’m just in a weird mind set when tryin

I have writer’s block. I can’t seem to get the words out on paper. I have a million ideas for books and screenplays, but I can’t seem to find the words. I keep going back and forth on what I want to work on. I keep thinking that what I’m working on isn’t going to be good enough, making me not want to keep working on it. Blogging is easier for me due to being able to write from the heart, but once I start working on a book, I think it’s not going to be worth putting it out in

I’ve made the decision to close my copy-editing business. After months of trying to promote and market my business, I wasn’t getting interest. I began to think that I wasn’t meant to have my own business, especially one that not everyone was going to be interested in. I knew that when I started it. I knew that it was going to take some time to get it up and running and that it wasn’t going to be a success overnight, but I was really hoping that at least one person would have

I try so hard to be able to find what I’m meant to do in this world. I want to be able to afford to do things and be able to live a comfortable life where I don’t have to worry about living paycheck to paycheck. I want to be able to go on trips and events like concerts without having to save up for months or even years. I want to be able to do things I’ve always wanted to do, but I’m having a hard time getting myself off the ground and becoming more financially independent.

I found a Disney questionnaire when I was going through some old files. I can't remember where I got it from. I think it was from youtube. What parks have you visited? I have been to Disneyland and Disney World What is your earliest Disney Park memory? My first trip wasn’t until my senior year of high school, so I was about 17 going on 18. What is your favourite park? Disneyland is my favorite park. Disney World wasn’t as grand as people made it seem. Which onsite hotels ha

I find that it’s hard for me to be in the room with couples or couples with kids because it reminds me of something that I’m not going to experience. Over the years, I’ve learned to accept that I’m going to be “alone”. I’ve accepted that maybe it’s just not in the cards for me to get married and have kids. I’ve learned that it’s okay to be alone, and not be lonely. I don’t need to be with someone to be fulfilled. As much as it hurts to be around couples, I’ve dealt with it.

For years, I always said that I never had the urge to go to Europe. When I go somewhere, I want to go with a purpose. I’m not traveling that far just to spend weeks, maybe months backpacking and just do what travellers do when they go to Europe. I like history and I want to be able to go to places that mean something. I know that there are places that not everyone wants to go to and they seem a little out there, but I want to be able to pay my respects. I want to be able to

Everyone has a way to recharge their batteries. Some people like going out with friends, others like to go home after work, put on their pajamas and watch their favourite shows. I’m the type of person who likes being alone and not talking to people after having to deal with the public all day. Being around other people and dealing with all sorts of different personalities for more than a couple hours makes me overwhelmed and anxious. There are so many types of people in the

I’ve been wanting to get into self-publishing for a while, I’ve seen people being able to live off what they make off of self-publishing and I want to be able to do that. I want to be able to do what I love and make a living. I want to be able to not have to do customer service jobs. I want to be able to be my own boss, work when I want, where I want. If I want to be able to become a writer and do it for the rest of my life then getting into self-publishing is something I sh

You can’t tell by looking at someone that they have Aspergers. Depending on the person, it’s obvious that they’re on the spectrum. Some people use it to their advantage and succeed in their career. Other people want to keep it to themselves just in case they get treated differently because of it. If you're good at something, why not use it for good? Share it with the world. You never know who may need someone like you to look up to. Some people have a hard time connecting wi

There are people who need to set goals for themselves to be able to achieve what they want in life and there are people like me who just go with the flow and let things happen. If it was meant to be then it will happen. new y I don’t see myself setting goals for myself because I feel like they are things that are meant to come true. I feel like if I give myself a goal and a time limit to reach that goal then I feel like it’s not going to be worth it in the end because I would

I’ve been working in retail and customer service since I was old enough to get a job. As much as it seems like it’s an easy job, it’s harder than it looks. With someone who has a hard time connecting with people, customer service isn’t the type of job I want to do for the rest of my life. I’ve been wanting to get out of that type of industry for years, but with retail being the only thing I know how to do, getting out is even harder. I’ve been told to go back to school, but