Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello readers. I would just like to tell everyone my postion in life and what it is like.
So, I'm 14 years of age and in year 10 at school, I was told I had HFA (high functioning austism) in year 6, my teacher assistant tried explaining it to me but I didn't understand what is was. Anyway in the beginning of high school, school changed my life completely, by the end of year 7 I couldn't bare school. in the whole of year 7 and the beginning half of year 8 I had only a brief idea that I was actually autistic. The further I progressed through year 8 the more I hated school, life in fact. It got worse and wosre untill I couldnt bare it, I stopped going to school and refused to go at all, eventually they made me go to these ASC meetings once a week with 2 other students. It taught me about autisium and made me feel more like myself. Well now in 2016 my life is going back on the tracks of what it was. I have a load of students in my class who don't give a toss about theirs or anyone's education, I have a teacher who is on my back all the time and is conslatly picking on me. Anyway it goes on and on in more detail why I hate school. I don't want anyone to think im a bad person or a naughty student because I'm not, I care about my education and my impression towards other people.
Anyway the point im trying to make is that autsitum has ruined my life to some degree and if anyone out there has been told they have it, good luck, becuase theres more disvantages than advantages.
-Bob Jones
Hi Bob,
Life is the sum of all your choices - Albert Camus
Autism is an extra difficulty to be faced but you can choose how you face that difficulty. If you lie down and give in to it then it can walk all over you but if you don't lie down then how can it walk over you?
When I first discovered that I had HFA/Aspergers I was lucky that the first thing that I read was a book by Valeie Gaus who shows how you can manage your challenges and make the most of things. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Well-Spectrum-Challenges-High-Functioning/dp/1606236342