I need more of a life ASAP.

[Metalhead]

I am looking at volunteer opportunities and seeing potential matches.

I am looking at local social events and seeing potential matches.

I cannot allow my mind to rest. Life is passing me by while I stay in victim mode, and that is no way to live.

 

[VictorR]

Don't forget that sometimes you can create your own opportunities as well

 

[Metalhead]

I am finally willing to accept that I was not born with severe cognitive and intellectual disabilities. I was tested for these things recently, those results came back negative for those things. Despite everything that my entire blood family loves to tell me, autism does not screw with my memory and make me remember things differently than they actually happened.

I am ready to move on with my life with full faith in my overall competence.

 

[Crossbreed]

I need more of a life ASAP.

Is that the same thing as a more-abundant life...?

 

[AdamG]

It is time for you now, to start believing in yourself. You are smart and motivated.

 

[Metalhead]

It is time for you now, to start believing in yourself. You are smart and motivated.

Yes, and I deserve to have personal, professional and sexual boundaries, despite my family telling me the exact opposite message.

 

[AdamG]

Do not believe their lies

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Despite everything that my entire blood family loves to tell me, autism does not screw with my memory and make me remember things differently than they actually happened.

I am ready to move on with my life with full faith in my overall competence.

Having faith in your competence is terrific. That is a step in claiming your agency and will support you in growth when you want to stretch your boundaries. Alas, it sounds like your family is gaslighting you. I know how hard it is to ignore family at times, but sometimes they deserve to be ignored.

I hope that you will enjoy activities and events that you are considering.

 

[Metalhead]

Having faith in your competence is terrific. That is a step in claiming your agency and will support you in growth when you want to stretch your boundaries. Alas, it sounds like your family is gaslighting you. I know how hard it is to ignore family at times, but sometimes they deserve to be ignored.

I hope that you will enjoy activities and events that you are considering.

Yes, my family is gaslighting me. I do not need to take their baggage personally any longer.

 

[Shamar]

I am looking at volunteer opportunities and seeing potential matches.

I am looking at local social events and seeing potential matches.

I cannot allow my mind to rest. Life is passing me by while I stay in victim mode, and that is no way to live.

I joined this forum only a few months after you did. When I first noticed you, you were a helpless wreck, dependent on drugs and alcohol, and practically unable to function on you own. Since then, you have beaten drugs and alcohol (I don't believe an occasional beer now and then constitutes alcoholism), become independent and living on your own, developed interests and gained personal inner strength. You have separated yourself from your abusive and dysfunctional family, and in the process learned to be yourself.

What you have achieved is nothing short of amazing. Now, by looking for volunteer opportunities, you are trying to give something of yourself back to the community and society.

You will always have problems, I know I will. But you have proven you have the strength to face those problems and not let them beat you. You have grown tremendously in the time I have known you, and I hope the growth continues.

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

I am looking at volunteer opportunities and seeing potential matches.

I am looking at local social events and seeing potential matches.

I cannot allow my mind to rest. Life is passing me by while I stay in victim mode, and that is no way to live.

Wow, do it. I believe in you.
You take the opportunity to do it, even if you start small and go to one or two for starters even if one or two let you down, do not give up.
This is so fantastic, you could meet some great people and have some fun.
You should try, you are a great person with so much to offer.

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

I joined this forum only a few months after you did. When I first noticed you, you were a helpless wreck, dependent on drugs and alcohol, and practically unable to function on you own. Since then, you have beaten drugs and alcohol (I don't believe an occasional beer now and then constitutes alcoholism), become independent and living on your own, developed interests and gained personal inner strength. You have separated yourself from your abusive and dysfunctional family, and in the process learned to be yourself.

What you have achieved is nothing short of amazing. Now, by looking for volunteer opportunities, you are trying to give something of yourself back to the community and society.

You will always have problems, I know I will. But you have proven you have the strength to face those problems and not let them beat you. You have grown tremendously in the time I have known you, and I hope the growth continues.

He is doing great and has so much to offer others
Congratulations for beating those demons, you should be proud of yourself.