Being on the Autism Spectrum is a blessing. Also, thinking of it like a blessing is the best way to deal with the situation of anybody else on the Autism Spectrum.

Essentially people like myself should be looked up to not down upon.

We are real, We are the people in this world too.

Since I have a busy day today, I will post later on,

OUT, J

It is important to have your own assets in owning a home like an apartment.  I soon will be getting that own home of mine really soon.  I can’t wait.  There is a way that I can do it also.

There are pictures to come on to the website from my birthday party and I will place them on DMC.

Also, when I go to my friend Mike’s blog at the MikeChimariblog.com, he announced that he has got 1,000 hits already for his site, but why on earth do people announce that stuff. Does it really matter?

He is a Jazz Buff, so if you see his website, its everything JAZZ.

There are many other things like the party went well.  Though a few friends I invited did not show up because they had other plans going on.   I guess that taught me a lesson to always plan further in advance than a week.

GRASP had a meeting on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.  MJC, I am sorry I can’t get to the GRASP meetings because it interferes with work.   I will try and make the GRASP meeting next month in July.  Though CANY starts for another 6 weeks.  CANY is a great program filled with so much ways to express myself.

With GRASP, ADAPTATIONS, and OTHER PROGRAMS IN WESTCHESTER I am doing really well.  I can’t wait to move fully to Westchester since I do all my work and stuff in westchester and the city, while also seeing people in the NYC.

IF I think like a CHAMP, and I will become ONE!

out, J

BTW, I am a registered Echo and Registered Vascular Technologist!

Sometimes people need to part from certain people since not everyone is destined to go through life with everyone. Some people are destined to go with certain people leaving others to go in a different direction of destiny. For instance, the New York Mets had to part with their manager Willie Randolph and for that matter things happen for a reason. Tim Russert parted from the whole world when he died from a heart attack. All things happen for a reason and may be it was time for New York Mets and Willie to move on or may be it was time for the world to see in themselves the kind of way that Tim Russert had taught all of us.

We won’t realize it at first what people that leave us teach us, but after a while you realize that this person really taught me something and I understand now that it was not forever.

There are certain people that always will be around your whole life and those people will always be there when things are down or when things are up. For everybody those people are different.

People are in and out of our lives for a reason, the ones that stay and the ones that go. Eventually though these people in your life are no longer there for you because it comes to the end of your life when time continues and you must enter the light yourself.

We must not think of that now. All we must think about is getting through our lives the best way we can.

There have been so many different people coming in and out of my life while at the same time there are people that were in my life and then come back for a specific reason. That reason only we know about. That reason could be to show those people that we have changed in a very positive way and to show the success we have all made.

Asperger Syndrome is a one of a kind neurological condition for me that makes me feel great. I have come to realize the positive attributes to the neurological difference and I seem wonder that I am learning at baby steps.

Neurotypicals tend to know the same stuff right when they are born and tend to learn the rest very quickly.

I am thankful that I had some early intervention, but I still have a long road trip to go in the learning process.

Just remember that life has a journey with many people involved, people come, people go, people stay, people come back, and people even go again. This is a journey for us all and there are lessons to be learned not just when you were a kid in school.

out, J

The Famous June 18th has arrived in JUNE.  Today is my birthday as well as Autistic Pride Day.   Autistic Pride Day started a few years back from Aspiesforfreedom.com.

I won’t tell you how old I am, I will just say that I am happy.  Anyway, tonight I will celebrate my birthday at home with a home cooked meal and then a cake.

I think this will be the start of a great new generation for me.

out, J

Jerk means, a person with unlikable qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable, and often not very intelligent.

A jerk; an inappropriately or objectionably mean, inconsiderate, contemptible, obnoxious, intrusive, or rude person.  Can someone guess what that this word means?

Anyway, there are many people that are jerks and the word that most people will try and guess.  Yet, when you don’t realize it, are people really being jerks or the other word if people don’t realize it.

I think there are also many people that are ignorant when they see a person who doesn’t realize what they are doing or saying, and they assume to say that the person is a jerk or the other word.

I think generally speaking we live in a very ignorant world where people don’t understand when others don’t realize they are being influenced and causing that person to be told they are jerk when in fact it is something entirely different, a person who just doesn’t realize it.  What do you call a person who doesn’t realize it?  Is it really still called being a Jerk?  I don’t think so.

Those people who use the wrong and call someone those words when they don’t realize it are an ignoramus, A totally ignorant person; a fool.

Anyway, help people that don’t realize what they are doing and saying by not calling them names that make no sense.

out, J

Creative Alternatives of New York has helped me and is going to continue to help me with my expression to the Neurotypical community.

it is the single most exciting group that I have and will be a part in Adaptations at the JCC Manhattan.

Anyway, I will post later on,

out, J

check out the website at www.cany.org

out, J

Think of the book by Benejamin Hoff called “The Tao of Pooh” and read it sometime this week letting me know what you think.

My favorite poem from that book is when Pooh recites Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
Why does a chicken? I don't know why.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fish can't whistle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

-- A. A. Milne

if you dig deep into that poem especially the first line of the poem, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. What does it mean to you and how does it reply to all people including people on the Autism Spectrum. When I was reading my book that I had gotten when I was a child a found a connection on what the Autism Vaccine Activists should read about what makes people people.

Well, Benjamin Hoff implies that things are the way they are and many people ignore that very fact. The Autism Vaccine Activists are especially guilty of this fact. They generally feel that they can change a person by the way of putting efforts into curing the very aspect that makes their child a person. Instead of just letting them be the person who they are, let them grow in the way they grow. Growing up requires encouragement from parents to their children especially for children on the Autism Spectrum. If a parent ceases to change something that is unchangeable by curing that person, you cease that person from existence making a new person. To me, that is not the way to attempt to help a child on the Autism Spectrum. Benjamin Hoff says in his book, “The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.”

There are many parents of children on the Autism Spectrum that want to change everything about their child. My mother only did everything to make me and continues to try and make me the best man I can be. She knows her limitations and she also knows that all people never stop changing and improving on their own. Making mistakes is a part of life, its a learning curve. The more mistakes you make the better the man or woman someone becomes.

People on the Autism Spectrum like myself make many mistakes and sometimes we get frustrated by acting out, and that is just the frustration of a day that brought much struggle. When toughening up on those that do not try and hurt us, many people become alarmed. Yet, if adults and children alike had ways to act out skits to toughen up on the people that hurt us rather than the people that don’t, then may be many people will not be so alarmed. People on the Autism Spectrum do not know how to react to Neurotypical society when a single ignorant Neurotypical pushes us Aspies and Auties around.

We should all know our limitations and be eager to encourage anybody to better themselves rather than encourage ways to rid the very aspect about creating the child to become a man or a woman.

Think Aspie, Think Autie, Think Pride, Don’t Think Cure!

Ignorance goes a long ways sometimes and this has to stop!!!!

out, J

PS Watch this video from Hercules Movie and listen to the song by Michael Bolton and you shall see what I mean about my fellow Autism Spectrumites and I. We are the hero’s of this world not any one of the ignorant ones that want to cure…

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.