I originally planned to start this blog with my Aspie discovery story, but after much typing and retyping, I realized that I have no idea how to write it out. I don't feel like I can simplify it - it being my entire life - into something short and concise enough to be remotely readable. I'm sure I'll wrap my head around the concept someday, and add my story to the blossoming online collection that collectively led me to my own diagnosis. For now, though, I'll just introduce myself and what I'm doing here.
Greetings. My name is Neuro, I am 26 years old, and I am an Aspie. I am married to an Aspie, and we have two probable Aspie children. Since discovering who I was, as a part of the Aspergers community about a month ago, my entire world has shifted, and the rift it carried spread throughout my family; touching on the quirkiest of us and shedding a revealing light on the problems we had all silently been facing our entire lives. Silently, together. Now that we know, we have collectively been gathering information on how to improve our lives the Aspie way.
In essence, that is why I'm here. To do what I do best. Obsessively collect, scour through, and simplify information into something that makes sense to me. I'll be posting my findings here. I don't know what you can expect, but I'd like to believe it will be both intriguing and informative. Perhaps I'm setting the bar too high for myself, but I know if I set it any lower all you will get are piles of Zelda information and random bewildering curiosities about how our minds work. (I would still expect at least a little bit of both, just to be on the safe side.)
It has been my dream for many years to set up an after school art program for children on the spectrum, as art is what I would consider my "special talent," and because I have always felt a higher connection with Autistics than anyone else in my life (go figure, right?) I still hope to do something of the nature, someday, though recently my focus has shifted more towards something a bit bigger. It has recently come to my attention that there is a huge deficit in the field bordering art and science, which happen to be my two strong points. In fact, I have been going back and forth on art and science for a career for about as long as I went back and forth on rather I had Autism - and just like the epiphany I had from discovering I was, indeed an Aspie, the discovery of this tiny little field was mindblowing.
I don't have to pick. I can do both. Where will this lead me? Well, it's too early to see as of yet, there is much research left to be done, but hopefully it will take me to a place where I can lend that helping hand to the younger versions of ourselves out in our community on a much grander scale. That is my dream, at least. For now, I'm simply happy to take things one day at a time as a stay at home mother and college student, just trying to figure out the most efficient way to life. And that, folks, is who I am.
Greetings. My name is Neuro, I am 26 years old, and I am an Aspie. I am married to an Aspie, and we have two probable Aspie children. Since discovering who I was, as a part of the Aspergers community about a month ago, my entire world has shifted, and the rift it carried spread throughout my family; touching on the quirkiest of us and shedding a revealing light on the problems we had all silently been facing our entire lives. Silently, together. Now that we know, we have collectively been gathering information on how to improve our lives the Aspie way.
In essence, that is why I'm here. To do what I do best. Obsessively collect, scour through, and simplify information into something that makes sense to me. I'll be posting my findings here. I don't know what you can expect, but I'd like to believe it will be both intriguing and informative. Perhaps I'm setting the bar too high for myself, but I know if I set it any lower all you will get are piles of Zelda information and random bewildering curiosities about how our minds work. (I would still expect at least a little bit of both, just to be on the safe side.)
It has been my dream for many years to set up an after school art program for children on the spectrum, as art is what I would consider my "special talent," and because I have always felt a higher connection with Autistics than anyone else in my life (go figure, right?) I still hope to do something of the nature, someday, though recently my focus has shifted more towards something a bit bigger. It has recently come to my attention that there is a huge deficit in the field bordering art and science, which happen to be my two strong points. In fact, I have been going back and forth on art and science for a career for about as long as I went back and forth on rather I had Autism - and just like the epiphany I had from discovering I was, indeed an Aspie, the discovery of this tiny little field was mindblowing.
I don't have to pick. I can do both. Where will this lead me? Well, it's too early to see as of yet, there is much research left to be done, but hopefully it will take me to a place where I can lend that helping hand to the younger versions of ourselves out in our community on a much grander scale. That is my dream, at least. For now, I'm simply happy to take things one day at a time as a stay at home mother and college student, just trying to figure out the most efficient way to life. And that, folks, is who I am.
