So today was one of the busiest days at the start of a really busy week. I swear, starting with a 11AM run through of my place I went nuts at getting up kind of early after getting to bed around 5AM. Play rehearsal went okay except at times I seriously am at times stumbling with my lines. I need to get this memorized soon, but with everything that happened this past week, my memorization only went so well. Plus, due to lack of sleep caused by overstimulation of my brain, I wound up late for said practice, but thankfully only by five minutes. It was probably the quickest I've ever gotten ready, had my shower, dressed, took a cab, and got there only ten minutes after I got up.
When I returned home I found that my friend had actually done quite a good job at cleaning the house, which she hadn't been doing the best job of prior to today. But now the kitchen feels so freaking empty as her roommate has taken a lot of his stuff.
My day ended with Fashion Show practice which was just constant walking. And then play rehearsal for the King's Drama group.
So today's day was a rather annoying as I had to keep getting up from bed when Varsity Rentals was showing my friend's place. Thing is, she's getting pretty pissed off about it because she's told the landlord she is staying and the law is that one cannot be evicted unless they've damaged property, caused dangerous problems for roommates or landlord, was consistently late paying rent, OR the landlord would have to use the house for a caregiver of a family member or a family member. In this case, it's none of these therefore the landlord can't evict my friend.
Aside from all this landlord nuisance, my day was pretty dull. It consisted primarily of studying my lines for the Purple Shorts play as I have a full run through tomorrow.
Other than that I suppose the only autistic-related thing that happened was the fact that I actually got on my friend's friend's case for drinking my apple juice. I mean for heavens sake, he's leaving the house and while we said we'd share food at times...now that he's leaving why should he be allowed to use my food or drink? I don't really think it's very fair.
One thing, I just noticed it was posted on Thursday even though I posted it at like 10PM on Friday evening. But I suppose things like that happen on this site :P.
So I apologize for my lateness in my postings today and yesterday. It's been a busy type of day. Autism was sort of full blown the past two days both in my constant blaming myself, bringing up the same topic every five minutes despite having left it earlier. It's kind of a common thing for me because I just don't want to simply drop a topic until I've said every last think I can say about it.
Yesterday was mainly about buying clothes for the ceremony which I wound up not going to..., feeling slightly sick from staying up all night because of what I had found out about my friend Dan, whom I made a video of and his brother-in-law and sister asked to use it for Friday's ceremony. I wasn't able to attend the ceremony due to personal reasons that I don't wish to explain, but it was unfortunate.
As for today, quite boring up until 4 when I headed out with Lauren and our friend Tricia for dinner and movie. It was quite enjoyable as we saw Leap Year. Another good love story and romantic-comedy.
I can't really say much else but I'll keep everyone updated with my life :). Sean
Hey so how was my day you might ask? It's quite simple, lame as anything. Whether waking up from a phone call at 12PM to dealing with my friend's landlord, it was anything but not exciting.
Class happened at 5:30 and was quite boring because all we learned about was measurements for Psychology Research. Following this class I went home and chatted with my mother a bit and now watching television.
Autism-wise, I was also just worried I was stressing my friend Lauren out with some matters that I can't discuss on here, which was pretty silly.
However, there was one thing that happened tonight after I posted this. I found out that a friend both Lauren and I had...had passed away. We found out from his best friend and he was only 25...I only knew him for a short while. Sure lots of talking on MSN but Lauren and I only met him in person once, but he was one of those people who you can't help but call your friends even if you hang with them for one day. If any of my friends reading this are wondering why they haven't heard of him before it was because while he was a really good person, I have a lot of friends and acquaintances so it's sometimes difficult to talk about all of them and since he didn't go to Kings or Western like most of my friends, he went to Fanshawe, so I never really had to bring him up. However, I'm still pretty sad about this as this has been the first friend I've ever really lost permanently. Not someone who just drifted away because of going to different schools or just different interests, but one I'm never actually going to see again.
So I'm going to try and change it up today. I am actually kinda tired of using the same thing over and over again. Yes I got up at 1PM like usual however I'm not going to give you a chronological detailed post about my whole day.
Learning about Clinical Psychology (my first class of the day) is definitely interesting, especially when our guest speaker arrived. We got to hear about what she does for a living, which included helping teens who are going through psychological issues including both suicide and even hearing voices in one's head. I found her an extremely interesting guest speaker and definitely wouldn't have passed that class up.
For Vocal Music class I got a chance to sing my solo, just 8 measures, and then listened to other people. Many people, including myself, need work, though some more than others but not trying to be rude. I've had ten years of professional singing training so hopefully that entitles me to critiquing without sounding like a jerk. I then found my partner, Jessica, for the ensemble piece we have to do from class. I suggested True Colours though we may do something from musical theatre which could just be as good. We even joked about doing a duet of Popular from the Broadway smash hit, Wicked. :P
As for autism today, it was a matter that I swear I thought I was bothering the girl I sat next to in music class as it seemed like I was annoying her. Hopefully not, but yeah that was the only thing :P
Have a great night everyone, and I hope you liked the format of this post.
So I woke up today around 1PM and did my usual prepping for the day. At 4:10PM I headed up to main campus for a music lesson, and while I was early, I got the chance to practice with my accompanist.
Following this I headed back to Kings for my Speech class, starting with my classic rhetoric test. It was quite a short lasting test and I finished in twenty minutes because it was basically based on the sheet we had been given so it was mainly a memorizing sort of test.
During speech class, we finished the monologues with me finding out I got 90% on my monologue last week! We also then talked about our next speeches which were going to be persuasive speeches. We then told some speeches to get people emotionally invested, but they were so depressing that it just drained my energy from me...
I then went over to Lauren's for a bit and just chatted about some things. And then headed home where I am now.
Autism-wise I think the only thing that happened was I let the influence of television and internet keep my brain over-stimulated. Hence I got to bed at 5AM which is why I'm so tired right now.
So I got up at 9AM and had my usual shower. Following said shower, I got ready to head to London as I had a LOT to do today.
At 10:30 my parents took me to London and at 12PM I had my Acting workshop. We learned a lot about facial and body expressions. We also learned about pretending to have an emotion we didn't have, such as insincerity which I tend to overplay it a little...
After the workshop, I had practice for Purple Shorts. This one went till five o' clock because we got locked out of the room for around an hour or so. I think I'm getting there but I need to still work on being off-book and not over expressive.
Once practice was done I headed to Students council at 6:30PM. While there was ONE specific motion I wanted revoked I won't really know how that went since I left early.
After council, I headed home and waited for Desperate Housewives, however turns out it was a repeat because of football tonight.
Autism-wise, I got worked up because it was such a long day. It took quite a bit of time for me to calm down because I had so much stimulation during the day.
Okay so what happened today...hmm. I woke up at 11AM and headed to the shower as usual and then headed out at 12PM to pick up Chris. I took him to Wendy's again, and then we headed to the mall. While there I got our movie tickets to The Tooth Fairy while he went to the bookstore to look around. When I went to get him, as usual I found him in the baby/toddler/children books section. (We're talking Dora the Explorer, and the ten page cartoon books of different movies). So then I took him with me when he was finished back to the theatre and we went in to see The Tooth Fairy.
The movie was actually really good, and while the critics hated it, if you have kids I'd definitely take them to see it, and you might even like it too. Myself, I love movies like that so I didn't mind one bit seeing it.
After the movie I took Chris to Rogers to drop off the movies I rented, and then took him home. I then headed up to Scotiabank to do some financial business and yeah, turns out they're closed on Saturdays unlike TD Canada Trust. (And no, it wasn't after hours, they're actually closed Saturdays -_-).
ANYWAY, I headed home and watched television, played Kingdom Hearts 2, and now I'm watching Ice Princess :P. I also found out I got the position of Website Commissioner on Students Council!
Short day today for the blog so everyone knows. I woke up at 1PM though I wound up sleeping actually till 2PM. I had my usual shower and then headed downstairs to watch television until close to 4PM.
I picked up Chris at 4PM and headed to Wendy's with Chris. We then went to Pinafore Park, then followed it by going to my house to watch FAME.
After work, I headed home to have dinner (Pot Roast with Mashed Potatoes), and played Avatar The Game. I have to say, for such a fantastic movie, they created quite a horrible game. You wind up dying in a battle with a soldier just because of the guns, its pretty pathetic you can die so easily in around five seconds. Now here I am, watching Eurotrip.
Autism-wise, the only thing that really happened was my disruption of sleep today. My brain stayed active till around 5am and as a result couldn't relax so that I could get to sleep. Obviously it was unfortunate because it just sucks not being able to get to sleep. The only good thing, was that I didn't have to get up until around 2. It sucks though because tomorrow I need to be up for 12PM (meaning 10AM wake up) as I'm taking Chris to see The Tooth Fairy.
Night all! Sean
PS: Oh and unfortunately I still don't know yet if I got Students Council yet so I'm still waiting....
So I woke up at about 11:30AM as I had an interview for the King's Students Council to be their Speaker (the one who runs the meetings). I headed to King's at 1PM for my interview and I really think I did a great job. I made my points, I was conservative in my explanations, but I made a few jokes when needed. I don't know if I definitely will get it as I've tried before and didn't get in, for good reasons I'm sure, but I just can't stop. I never stop because of how much council means to me and how much each position I try out for means to me. Some people may question why I keep trying again, or say that I randomly choose positions to run for, but the fact is I only choose positions I want to be in. If I didn't care as much I would of run for something like Environmental Coordinator (not that I don't care for the environment, I just wouldn't really be in the position for the position itself). So here's hoping it works out.
After the interview I grabbed some lunch and headed home for a bit until my class at 3:30PM. It was a relatively boring class that even Lauren found dull and she generally pays attention but even she found it difficult so that's saying something....
After class my parents picked me up and we went to Red Lobster for dinner, but wound up only getting a small amount of food because they have upped their costs way too high. It's freaking ridiculous that the prices are THAT high.
My parents and I then headed home and I went out and rented Post Grad, which was just okay, The Invention of Lying (which if you look back a few months you'll know it's a funny movie), and Avatar: The Game. Now here I am, getting ready for bed.
Autism-wise, because my day was such a running around sort of day, my brain was over-stimulated and as a result I kind of wound up a bit more hyper than I should of. I just was talking what seemed like a mile a minute, but I guess what else can I say?
That's basically everything for today. Night Everyone! Sean
So I woke up at 1PM and just basically stayed in my bed for a bit and my Mom and I talked briefly just about when we're having dinner tomorrow. And also about how I had succumbed and cleaned my friend's dishes even though I didn't really want to.
I then headed over to Kings because I needed to talk to my Disability Counselor to rebook another exam because I had had problems with the website once again. I've figured it out now, but I definitely had no clue about why it didn't work yesterday.
After this I headed to Main to talk with a counselor about some personal business that I'd rather not talk about on here if that's okay.
I then headed to the mall to do some grocery shopping and then came home. I headed to class at 5:30PM and just listened to the lecture and afterwords headed home. I watched American Idol. And I'm watching Toddlers and Tiaras right now and I just don't understand what the heck this show is. I mean the mothers put WAY too much pressure on their kids...it's ridiculous...
Autism-wise, I think really only thing that happened was that I was a bit wired after watching Idol so when I talked to Mom, I was a little more excited than I should of been.
So I woke up at 1PM and talked to my Mom about a certain friend of mine who was not exactly being the cleanest of people. It was the same friend who's place I stayed at, and my friend expected me to clean up her dishes which was ridiculous. I did eventually clean her dishes, just because I could not bother with it anymore.
After this talk I headed to class at 3:30PM for Clinical Psychology. We learned about Clinical Diagnosis, and then I headed to the music library because I needed to figure out my second and third solos for my Foundations in Singing course. I knew I was doing House of the Rising Sun for my first course. My second solo I put down was Danny Boy but I can of course change it. As for the final solo, it can be a song from a film or musical theatre or anything similar to that. So I got music from Wicked, one that has many contemporary songs, and one with many Broadway pieces. Now I just need to pick one that's in my range.
At 7PM I headed to my vocal class and we just learned about how to prevent performance anxiety, effective practice methods, and breathing techniques. I found it really excellent because it would just really help me in my singing even more than where it is now.
After class I headed back to my friend's place and cleaned the dishes as I said, though it sure took forever but almost was a bit therapeutic in a way.
So I woke up around 1PM and watched MadTV. I then headed to my shower and did the usual stuff. I then headed over to Student Services at Kings College to meet with my SSD counselor to book my quiz next Monday. Once that was done I then headed downstairs and got some food and then headed home.
Around 6PM I headed over to Lauren's so that we could head to Speech class. When at speech I sang Don't Stop Believing as my monologue and people loved it. They told me I had guts, my professor said I had perfect pitch and great intonation which I was glad to hear, and just was happy to hear a lot of people liked it. I think some of the cocky guys in the class who thought they were too good for school and for the class, seemed to have this look in their eyes like they were thinking "what a dork" but it's not like it matters. I love singing, and interestingly enough Lauren and a few people said that the whole social awkwardness of my Aspergers just disappears when I sing, and it's like it allows me to become someone else just like in acting.
Lauren and my other good friend in the class John also did really well with their speeches. Lauren, despite being nervous, was amazing in her speech from The Holiday, and she sounded exactly like Kate Winslett which was who's character she was speaking as. While John did a speech that was the opposite of his past speeches, it was a more serious monologue, but it still was fantastic.
After this I headed to Lauren's for a bit till I started feeling sick because my headache and sinus infection just started getting worse. I headed home and took a Tylenol, and now I'm home.
So I got up at 1PM and had my usual shower. I then packed up the stuff I'd need for the night as I had to head to my friend's place as tonight was going to be a long night. I headed down to London at 2PM.
I lounged around until about 6:30 when I then headed to Kings for Fashion Show practice, and I think I have figured out how to walk the best I can walk now.
I then headed over to the UCC for play practice for the Theatre Western festival of plays that I made it into for a read-through of the play I'm in, Ruthless, where I play Johnny, Ruth's dead best friend.
After the read-through I then had to cab it back to Kings as I was late for practice for Looking Glass Land. It went really well and we ended on time instead of late like last week.
I then came home and now am watching Talledega Nights.
Autism-wise, only thing that happened was again I couldn't let go a topic I was discussing with my best friend Lauren. It's a relatively important topic however due to personal reasons I can't list the actual topic on here.
So I woke up at 1PM after having a relaxing sleep, and had my shower. I wasn't working until 3PM so I got to take my time. I then headed back downstairs and watched some Will & Grace and laughed my butt off. After this I got ready to head out to pick up Chris.
I picked Chris up at 3 and took him to Wendy's again, and then to Pinafore, and finally back to my house to finish up Harry Potter. I think I may have to hide it for next week because without trying to sound rude, I just can only see that movie so many weeks in a row before going nuts.
After taking Chris home I came home for dinner, my fave once again (chicken and mashed potatoes) and then watched some of my Brothers & Sisters Season 2 DVD.
At 8PM I decided to go get FAME because I love the movie and it recently came out. When I got to Rogers they were out of the movie to rent so I decided to just buy it. I then came home and watched said film.
Autistic-wise, I suppose the thing that happened was I kept talking to my parents about the scams online and what to watch out for, but I didn't want to let the topic go until my mother told me that was enough. So I stopped and went downstairs.
So I woke up briefly at 11AM which was annoying as I hadn't gotten much sleep yet. I then went back to sleep for a while. To be clear I was at my friend's place last night as I had King's Players last night. I finally got up at 1PM so that my Dad could come pick me up and take me home as I worked tonight.
I got home at 3PM and got ready for work. I then headed out at 4PM to take Chris out to Wendy's. I then took him to Pinafore Park and headed back to my house where we watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince some more.
After I took Chris home, I sang my song for my parents that I want to do for my monologue though my mother suggested a different song as the one I wanted to sing was slightly out of tune whereas the other song I can sing better.
I then played and finished off my game, Bayonetta. Now I'm here about to go to bed.
So I woke up around 12PM and had my usual shower. I then had some tea while I waited for 1:30 to roll around. I then headed over to King's to meet with a counselor at King's so that I could figure out some more information about after Undergrad.
After this meeting I headed to class for 3:30PM and then finished up class and headed back home while I waited for King's Players.
At 10PM I headed to King's Players and had a great time playing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. We also played World's Worst again, and a few other fun games.
Following this we headed to Christina's Pub and hung out and played some of our own games such as going around saying nouns that couldn't relate to one another. It was a lot of fun I must say. I then headed home and here I am, and I just had a power outage out of the blue but I don't know why :P.
Autistic-wise, I didn't want to drop a topic I was discussing with my best friend because it's an important topic in my opinion.
Oh and I also wanted to say I got in the Purple Shorts Festival in a play called "Ruthless". I'm so excited that I made it into the Festival!
So I woke up at 12PM and had my usual shower. I then headed up to Main Campus of school and had an audition for the Purple Shorts Festival Theatre Western was putting on. I read a speech from Death of a Salesman, and then I was asked to read it with a bubbly personality. Then asked to do an evil villain's laugh to which I apparently scared everyone who heard it :P. I then had to do it in a British accent and this was where it got funny. I started in a random accent, then went into a Scottish accent, and then finally reached a British one. But at least I showed them all my accents I can do. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
After the audition, I headed to my next TV Western training and learned about the cameras they used, and then got to go around and train using the camera. After this I headed back home for a bit before my class.
I headed to my research class and actually found it quite fast-paced, not in a bad way, just that we moved through the slides really fast. Then we had our lab and that moved really fast as well.
So I woke up around 12PM and did my usual shower and such and waited to hear from Lauren as we were going to see Sherlock Holmes at the theatre.
When Lauren and I headed to the mall we once again wound up in a hugely busy bus and so Lauren and I watched in annoyance as NO ONE would move to the back despite the fact more and more people were coming on. I'm sorry but does no one clue in there is still another TEN feet of space on the bus for you to move back to? Just because you don't want to be pressed against another person doesn't mean you need to be rude to other people by not making room for them! People get some manners and just get use to it. If you're only going to a nearby place, you're going to be against them for only a short time, so it's not that big of a deal.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the movie for a second time, and then we headed back home. I then headed to my Foundations in Singing class at 7PM. We learned about resonance and vocal registers, and then I headed back home.
Once school was done, I headed home and here I am relaxing :)
Obviously, my rant above about a bus is the autistic part of my day because it just was so frustrating, something so small like that makes me go into a rant.
So I woke today at 3PM and had my shower as always, I then just watched Desperate Housewives, followed by MAD TV and then one of my other box sets.
At 6PM I headed to speech class, where I got to see some wonderful monologues. I just hope I can find out a good one for next week when I present mine.
After this I headed back to Lauren's and then headed to Western Film to see ZOMBIELAND which was a hilarious movie. Possibly one of the best comedies I had seen in quite a long time. When it was over I headed back to Lauren's and we figured out when to meet for tomorrow's trip to see Sherlock Holmes.
Now I'm back home, and I hate to say this was a short day.
Autism-wise the only things that came up was basically just me using the same outline for the blog.
So I woke up at 12PM and got ready to head to London as I had a lot of things to do in London at school. My parents and I left at 2PM and headed to London.
At 4PM, I went to Fashion Show practice. I'm getting better at my walk, but I need to be more confident with my walk. The fact is I doubt myself and as a result, I walk slightly with less stride or confidence. I realize this is just a case of me having done things in the pass because of my autism, which causes constant doubts in me, and therefore it travels through all parts of my life.
After practice, I decided to head to a students' council meeting as I am going for Speaker again because A: I miss Students Council a lot, and I believe I have the nature that is needed to take control of meetings. I just hope that everyone else will have that confidence in me. I find it funny that while with fashion show I have little confidence, I have an immense amount of courage and confidence with council because I've done it for so long. I've seen flaws and things done properly, and I really know I can do this sort of thing.
Following council I headed to play rehearsal. It was pretty much a two and a half hour practice and that's all there is to say about that.
I then came home and watched Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. Both were great episodes.
So I got up at 11AM only to decide to sleep until 12PM even though I had work at 1. When I got up I did my usual shower thing and headed off to work. I took Chris to Wendy's once more and then headed through Pinafore Park before heading home.
When we got home we watched the ending of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, followed by some more of Harry Potter 6 which we hadn't finished last week. Chris behaved quite well compared to yesterday which was good and even asked if my mother was okay as she was asleep at the time.
After I took Chris home at 3PM, my grandfather came over and we had a nice dinner, and then I said good-bye to him when my parents took him home. I then played Bayonetta for the majority of the night after he left.
Autistic-wise, the main thing that happened today was when my mother asked me to bring my computer up to show Gramps some photos of where my cousin is going to medicine. However, I guess I rolled my eyes when she asked me this as if saying 'you're pissing me off, I want to watch television because I'm relaxed', which I guess is just a thing I do with my autism. I get absorbed into the T.V. and if someone asks me to do something when I'm in that state, I get relatively pissed off at them. It's a silly thing, but it's how I am.
Other than that, nothing else really eventful happened.
So I woke at 1PM and did my usual shower thing. I then spent some time talking to my mom about just some random things that I prefer not to list on here. :P. I then went back downstairs and watched some television and had some breakfast. (Yes breakfast after 12PM).
I then headed to work at 4PM and took Chris to Taco Bell. We then headed to Pinafore Park, and then back to my house. We watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Chris was a little over active today in that I was gone getting dinner from upstairs for five minutes and he was going berserk making a lot of noise and hitting himself (not in a harmful way but just to stimulate his brain). Still it's odd that he can't even be alone for five minutes without freaking out.
After work I went to the metro (grocery store) to get some yogurt for my mother however I couldn't find the kind she was looking for. I then went to the bookstore and looked for Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Childs but they didn't have any. So I then came home, started watching the Hangover and couldn't get into it again so now I'm watching Eagle Eye. I apologize everyone that nothing to do with my autism happened today minus me actually feeling as though I need to tell you this, and also that I followed the same structure once more.
So once again, I'm using the same format, and I think that's just how it's going to be. Like I said, autism for me means I need structure.
So I woke at 1PM and had my usual shower and such. I then headed over to King's to get the special permission I needed to get into a math class, and was told to come back in a half hour as it always gets very busy during the first week back. When I did come back I found out that because I'm taking five courses, even though I'm not taking five credits (several half credits) I cannot take another course as that would be a sixth course and unless you have a high average, you can't take six courses. So I just decided to give it up and take it in fourth year.
After this I headed over to class for Psych of Work/People and then after that was done my parents picked me up to take me home as class was over. I headed home, went back out to get some movies and video games for the weekend, and then headed back home for dinner. I think the only thing today that had my autism "flare up" was just when I was talking to my parents I just was trying to be too technical about something very insignificant.
So now we're here, the end of the day for me. Oh and if you're wondering why most of these posts seem to not follow with the actual time, I've made this blog several hours earlier than it is that way if I forget to post until 3AM, the blog will still think it's around 8 or 9PM. I know it's silly, but that's the other thing from my autism, I can't help but WANT to make sure that I post daily so I'll do what I can to make sure it's not a day missed. Yes there have been a few I've missed, but none the less I still am trying.
So has anyone noticed that most of my posts generally follow the same structure? That I start from the beginning of the day and then write about everything until the end of the day? Even that is my autism coming forward, that I have that much structure in even posts like this. It may seem more just something like obsessive-compulsive disorder but frankly, in my case, it is simply my need for structure. So obviously, what I'm writing right now is very out of the ordinary, but I needed to see if any of you had caught that.
Anyway, I woke up at about noon and didn't do much until around 2:00 PM and headed to main campus for my training of TV Western. I then had to head over to Middlesex College to talk to the math department to get into my math class but then I found out it's actually the Science center I had to go to so I headed over there and then had to go upstairs to get special permission. I then had to head back to the UCC again, or behind it I should say, to ask the Social Services Building staff about it and find out I have to get the final signature from King's....so now I'm starting where I was. Figures.
I then headed to my vocal coach lesson where I just did some drills and warmups. I then headed to Christina's Pub for a milkshake, then grabbed some milk and tea bags from the general store and garlic mashed potatoes from the Sebastian's Market. I then headed back home.
So here I am! Have a great night everyone!
Sean
PS: To the people in the United States and also the person from Korea who read my blog, I'm so glad people around the world are actually reading this blog! And to my loyal Canadian readers, thank-you as well.
Well I'm proud to say we reached 1000 views! It's hard to believe but one thousand people have viewed my blog. Thanks everyone!
So I woke at noon and just read for a while until around 1PM and headed over to Lauren's for a bit. I then headed to the Academic Dean's office to add another course but turns out I have to go to the Dept of Mathematics on main campus to get special permission from them not King's.
So then I headed to the first of my new courses, Intro to Clinical Psychology and met my Professor who is actually deaf, so this I think will be an interesting course. I then headed over to main and had my singing class which I think I'm going to really enjoy.
Then I came home, had dinner and here we are. As for autistically, I think the only times it happened was when I kept going over and over about how I couldn't get into the math course to Mom and wouldn't cut it short, and when I told my Clinical Psych class about how my living with autism still brings out a negative stigma in some people.
So to begin with, I woke up around 12PM and helped my Mom figure out some more Facebook and photo things on the computer. I then went back to bed for a slight more and finally got up to have my usual shower and started to prep to head to London as I had a night class.
As we were headed down to London, my mother was talking to my father when she said something I decided to correct her about. I can't recall at this moment what it was about but it had to do with something where I felt I had to correct my mother. While it may seem odd to do with autism, but this seems to be one of my quirks. If something sounds odd or incorrect, even if it's a general idea, I can't help but correct the person generally using the word "technically". Like I said, you would think this would be related to OCD or ADD, but as I haven't been diagnosed with either, and it's not as though I obsess over correcting people but it still is something I feel I need to do. So truly, I think the only thing I could think of what it is is my autism.
When I finally got to London I was at my friend's place that I can stay at when I have a night class. When I got out of the car I practically ran and gave my best friend Lauren a hug since she was getting out of her grandmother's car. We've got such a great friendship and I can't wait to go to Europe with her after school is over in two more years.
I hung out with her for a while just catching up on how her Christmas and New Years were and then we headed to school to get some things done as I needed to get into a class and Lauren had to drop off a folder.
We then headed to our respective places, me to my friend's place, her to her house, and then met up again at 6PM to head over to our class. We got to class and chatted for a short time and then listened to the last few speeches for class.
After this I headed back to my friend's place and had some food and then watched some television. I then teased my roommate Chris with my other roommate Amanda which while I don't condone putting people down, it was all light hearted and he teases me brutally over not understanding me because of my autism. Whether it's telling my friends things he has said about them (which they deserve to know) or just because he doesn't understand why I am the way I am.
I then just went back in my room and watched episodes of Glee which hopefully many readers love.
So today this post is going to be very different than previous days. I will tell you that I was up all night as once again, my brain was over-stimulated. I did fall asleep though for a short time and woke again at 11AM when my parents came home. I then headed to work from one until three with Chris, where while his own autism was basically the same, meaning very few words could be understood, obsession over Harry Potter such as asking me who died in each book, and of course eating with his mouth open, it was basically a usual day.
Following work I came home, watched television and saw a wonderful Desperate Housewives episode, I really enjoyed it frankly.
However, the reason I said this blog isn't exactly going to be the same is in relation to the words I heard today on Desperate Housewives that can be found in the title of this post. They're words spoken by Mahatma Gandhi, and the reason I'm bringing this forward is because I've been doing a lot of thinking about myself. I've also realized that I'm not really being myself. For one thing, instead of fighting off my quirks caused by my autism, like sharing too much information to people or being paranoid about this and that, I'm letting it control me. It's what has caused me to lose friends because they just didn't understand why I acted the way I did, I've lost popularity (not that I care about this) but obviously I just mean that instead of having a lot of support from people, it was a definite case of people talking behind my back. I'm letting this control me because I perhaps don't actually have the confidence that I should have. I let people take advantage of me, because I suppose in reality I don't have as much confidence as people believe. I'll admit, I don't allow people to ridicule me, and I will shove it back in their faces if I have to, but I don't really take the reins of my life because I have not truly gained my indomitable will. The thing is though, with the obstacles I've gone through I can't help but think I just need to face them head on and remember that I can do anything I put my mind to. Autism should not be something that should limit me, and I think that's the case for anyone. No matter what you have to face in your lives; pain, fear, jealousy, even death, you just need to remember to tell yourself that you are strong and will fight through it.
Okay so I woke up about 1PM and just to let you all know, I didn't have work today so I was home all day and didn't do much. To begin with, I started by watching Will & Grace, followed by several Family Guy and Simpsons episodes. I'm sorry there isn't more for me to talk about, but after that I just watched Hell's Kitchen until midnight and here I am.
My Mom also called to say they might not get on their flight and as a result, might not be home till tomorrow which would mean I'd have another relatively restless night. And now, they are coming home but not until tomorrow morning. So I'm probably going to be up late again unfortunately, since once again I won't want to turn the television off and therefore I'll be keeping my brain stimulated as a result.
So I woke up at 10AM when my best friend Jean who had stayed over New Years Eve, woke me up because the guy who plows our driveway came to talk to my mother who wasn't home. But what happened was when Jean opened the door, the alarm was still armed and therefore it started beeping and since Jean didn't know the code.
Then after this I took Jean home and then slept until 3PM. I showered and headed out to work. I took Chris to Wendy's and then headed back to my house for Harry Potter 6 Special Features. After that I took Chris home at 6 and then got to Tim Horton's and got a soup and cinnamon roll to go with it.
Autism wise, only thing I suppose I had problems with was talking way too much about insignificant things when I talked to my Mom on the phone.
Well that's all for today, sorry I was a little late in posting this.
I'm a 22 year old student at King's College at the University of Western Ontario. I've been a member of students councils for the past 8 years of my life, including Communications Coordinator and Website Commissioner. I'm in Psychology at Western, and have a big passion for acting. I'd love to get into movies if I could, but for now, I'm just living life and loving my friends and the productions I'm in at school :).
