Ultrasound is a perfect job for somebody on the Autism Spectrum to be able to see the details no body else can see.

I would like to start an Ultrasound school strictly for anybody on the Autism Spectrum to go to learn from me.

How would everyone love this? I and the rest of this school I will create will honor other Spectrumites to learn this trade to become a contributing member of society.

I think from all the people seeing the ABCnews.com site, no body would deny an externship to an Individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I want to be able to help out the rest of the Autism Spectrum community do work which will be not only lifesaving to them, but rewarding to them as well since they can also save other lives.

Anybody can do anything they put their mind to, it just takes time and practice.  Ultrasound especially in Cardiac and Vascular is an art form which a person with an ASD can see small details no body else can see.

Take it easy,

OUT, J

I do what I need to do in order to get what I want.  Many people in my life right now pull tricks on me because they may seem as if I am a  fool.   They don’t realize I am no and as soon as they realize I am not,  I have pulled the rug right in front their faces making them fall flat on their face.  I will do this all the time to prove to this world who I am and what I can do.  I encourage all other Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders to do the same I do to make the rest of the world seem like a fool.  Anybody who thinks Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders are fools are really the fools themselves. We are the smart ones out there, and all the Neurotypicals in the world are the fools who don’t realize our full potential in life.  We can do so much more with ourselves if you give us early intervention and accept us as people who live in this world too.

Think about this and never do anything to hurt us or create a sense we are fools because all of you are the fools who think this about us.

A fool is someone not realizing someone else is smart so they will do whatever it takes to show the smart ones are stupid.  Usually caused by Jealousy.  Jealousy hurts a lot when a Neurotypical person does things to smart good people to hurt them.

Don’t ever hurt someone who is smarter than you because you are Jealous.  I find I have been hurt so many times in my life.  People can be really cruel in this world.  No body needs to see another person who is being cruel to me or someone else on the Autism Spectrum.  No body deserves to be hurt.

In any case, I hope I can continue to do better things in this world.

posting again soon,

OUT, J

The Sun is just beginning to rise with me.  I just wonder what life has installed for me now.  The Sun will not set until the day I am old and gray lying on my bed.

The moment my life gets moving I have so much more to do in such a long and short lifespan.  We only have 130 years of life which most people really do not live this long anyway.

Most people are lucky to live to 100 years old.  I want to live as long as I can to give this world what it needs from everybody and that is sticking with one another at all costs as equals.  We are all equals in this world.

No body is above anybody else.  We can be leaders to lead, but that is because most people in the world need a leader to lead them.  So, here we are.

Take in to consideration your life is a one in a billon shot to make a difference.  We are all this way. We all have something to give to this world. Think of your talents you can give. Never think of how much you get out of it, just do it, like Nike!

People may be grateful and want to give gifts, accept them, but always say “this was not necessary, thank you anyway I love it. Your generosity is great too.”

Everybody needs a feeling of joy in their life.  No body should feel like they are angry at the world or feeling down.  Everybody can and will be good people as well.

Think of this and the Sun will rise stronger for the whole world to see, and one day the Sun will never set until we are all old and gray.

I hope all of us can enjoy every land which has been made for us including Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel.  Israel is a land which many people in the world can enjoy too, and we need to understand this even Jewish people like myself.  History and even Prehistory from lands on Earth is a way to show how we can all learn from the past mistakes of our ancestors.

Have a wonderful week and enjoy the Sun while you can!

OUT, J

I have a great new positive week ahead of me, ones which will fill me up so much.  I love my work and I love to help people.  It takes a long time for me to interact with people, but eventually I get it right with boundaries and social skills.

I will be opening up a surprise for Rockland County. I will be starting an ASAN (Autistic Self-Advocacy Network) social support group in Rocklanad.  I will be the leader of the group.  I will direct events such as parks, zoos, and any other fun stuff Individuals on the Autism Spectrum would love to enjoy. We will all support oneanother as well.

This group will be all about Neurodiversity and NOT thinking ever there is a cure for Autism Spectrum Disorders, since there is NOT one.  I will change everyone’s perspective in Rockland since many Rocklanders are ignorant.

I hope finally Rockland County, New York can finally be up on the times and allow me to start my ASAN group with just Individuals on the Autism Spectrum in my group.  I will lead this group and help out.  ASAN is a great organization with all its humbleness in the world.  I look forward to working with Ari and the other people from ASAN.

I really want to help out and be a part of the greatness this world has in potential to see the light always.

This is a world with so many Individuals on the Autism Spectrum who have the potential to be Contributing Members of Society.

Thank you very much for every one support of Drivemomcrazy.com.

This is going to be a great week!  I will have the best work week ever with the doctor I work for.

OUT, J

I find my ultimate happy place lies in the medical field where I can be watching the Human Anatomy as it is in motion.  I find it is amazing to me to see myself grow and learn from this.  I learned another test on Friday which is not that hard to do at all.  Nothing is hard to do as long as I have a way of learning from somebody who can teach me well.  I always have had great teachers teaching me well from elementary school up until now doing things in the medical field to help people.  I am on a constant thirst for knowledge.

My happy place lies where I have myself engrossed in looking at Human Anatomy.  I have been to the Bodies Exhibit many times already because it makes me happy.  It is expensive to go, but it makes me feel happy to go.  When I go to work I clap my hands because I am happy to do something to see Human Circulatory System Anatomy.  I will always love it. I even love talking about it, reading it, talking about my reading materials, and listening to lectures on it.

My second part of the Human Anatomy I love is the Brain and the mind.  I love so much about this part of the body as well.  A balance test for ENG is very interesting as well.  A doctor has somebody like me look at the Central Nervous System, the eyes, and the inner ear to determine what causes dizziness. It is something I just didn’t realize was so interesting as well.  Hey, if it is in the Human Anatomy, I love it.

I think it is amazing to watch this as well. I had a good teacher teaching me how to do things with it.  When you don’t get taught to do something and you feel very strange having to be told to try it, it is hard to do.  Anybody needs to be taught first and taught well.  I love to learn and I need to understand everything about why I am doing it especially if it is in the Human Anatomy which is my happy place. To think about the Circulation, the Brain, the Mind,  Sensory system, Digestive system, Muscles and bones, …

I used to do this all the time when I was quiet, now I am driving my mom crazy with unimportant stuff and forgetting to always keep my interest in my mind to make me feel happy and relaxed. My feeling is I need to balance my life now. Balancing a life not to a time where I was quiet or not now where I am constantly talking, but to future where I can know when to talk and when to be quiet in peace of mind with my special interest.

Anyway, I just thought about all of this since I need to realize my strengthened areas.  It feels so great.

I like to think about how every organ in the body works and works together well. It makes me wonder about how every cell in the body is a living cell and has a life cycle.   In the end, we have a life cycle as well.  Nothing lasts forever unfortunately and the Human Body isn’t perfect either.  The Human Body if perfect can last up to 130 years of life.  Very few people can live to 130 years of life.  We must try hard to live our life to the fullest by learning from experiences which have hurt us or from an experience where we made mistakes.  We only live here for a certain amount of time so we must experience each day as positively as we can.  Happiness is so important in this world because it makes us feel positive for anybody.

I know I have Asperger Syndrome, but with every individual with Asperger Syndrome who has been through rough times in their lives should be able to live in happiness like other people.  Our experiences have hurt us and it brings our self-esteem down where it could take a long time to bring it back up again.  I know many other people have had experiences where their self-esteem was so low, but how can something so low bring people with on the Autism Spectrum even lower.  I guess the issue is sensitivity.  We feel very sensitive and need to draw away from it all.  Feeling sensitive is in our nature, it is built inside of all of us. Some have more, others have less, and people on the Autism Spectrum have even more than anybody else.

We care so much about certain things and other things not so much.  We need to balance our life more. Everybody needs to balance their life more to get where they ought to be at.  I am guessing this is something everybody in the world has trouble with which is why we are all in a Financial Crisis right now.

We are all forgetting our happy places in life which makes us all feel happy and positive.  Many people have gone in to certain fields not because they like it, but because it makes more money.  People should do the career they like because they like it.  I do and I love what I do. I am doing a career which allows me to discover more of my happy interest in the Human Anatomy.  I know it will take awhile till I can make a lot of money, but I can sacrifice money for it.  Everybody should sacrifice more money for a happy career like me.  Something which makes you feel very happy and enjoy life more.  Otherwise it does not matter how much money you have, you could be the most depressed person of all time.  Some unique people are different and are happy, but that is just a few people.

I love my life and I love knowing I can simply go to work in an area of my special interest which makes me happy.  Sometimes I will stay back at work before I go home where I am alone at work thinking of maintaining this feeling.

I must also realize family cares about me and should make me happy as well. It does sometimes and I need to know when I can shut things off with Human Anatomy and when to listen to family. My mom gets upset with me when I can not shut down this interest of mine in Human Anatomy and just enjoy her and the rest of the family.  I just want to enjoy my special interest, but I am realizing now there is more to my life than my special interest. I need to find a happy life in my family as well.

Hope you have a great weekend!

OUT, J

I have to admit I do like these programs very much and always have.  I think any member of any type of program needs to also admit it as well, but also needs to accept the fact it should only be around their life temporarily till they can get their feet in to life a lot better.  Yes, it is important to do this and be the independent person as much as they can with minimal support feeling helped.  Then, coming back to these programs as a role model to help the instructors help  newcomers feel they can make it too.

I just wanted to repeat something I said in another posting.  This should be the future of all of these programs including the revolutionary Adaptations in which I feel should be a recognized International program for everybody.  There should be different levels of social skills because of the different levels of disabilities and neurotypicals who need social skills.  Everybody needs some kind of social skills in their life at some point.

Have a wonderful day!!!

OUT, J

Frequently, there are many people in this world who tend to describe a situation in their minds and go over and over it in their heads till they feel tired.  I know I do and I always spend time alone by myself thinking about the past from the very recent past passing along my timeline in to childhood.  It amazes me how this happens very frequently.  I can spend hours doing this.  Then, I begin analyzing each situation over again.

Anyway, I would like to know if any of you believe in guardian angels.  I want to know this because I want to know if any of you believe you have a guardian angel watching over you.  May be you have instead a special person who loves and cares about you who is not in your family.  Has anyone of you felt unrequited love in your life? I was just thinking of times when I had unrequited love in my life.  It happened to me very recently about 3 to 4 years ago.  I didn’t see it coming.  I fell in love and then it didn’t work out the way I thought it out in my head.  Instead I fell in to the arms of a person who helped me through my way.  I not only stood up and moved myself along the way, this person knew how much potential I do have. This person could sense an obligation to protect me when I am away from my family because this person feels I need the protecting.  This person shows the love deep within to give me the sense of love in the world.  This person could be considered a guardian angel, but I did not really believe in guardian angels at the time.  I feel because of this person/guardian angel, I am doing things in this world I am extremely capable of doing.  I am not just good at what I do, I am damn good at it.  I am not perfect, I am not the best, just that damn good at what I do.

I am an RDCS and RVT (cardiac and vascular sonographer) from the ARDMS, and that was just the beginning.  I am going to be the BEST damn Technologist ever.  I can do things no other tech can do, and I will continue to shine since I have the tenacity to be able to do it.  I am not going to sit there and let anybody tell me to go a little faster since I want to obtain the nice quality image or nice spectral doppler waveform or even nice color flow doppler.  I will always take my time, not too much time, and do a good job.  I know there are times I have a lot of patients in one day, but if you speed up a little, you could still miss something important.  I watch the screen figuring out if the doctor needs a closer look at something.  If so, I go for it.  If not, I have to just move on and end the study.  For every beginning there is an ending.

Important things in your life are significant enough to think about.  If you think about and do something which is not a priority, then you will exhaust your time and never get to the important things in your life or in another study.

There are ways to stop the frustration of overanalyzing anything and constantly thinking about a past situation or a current study I am doing.  Each day we learn to do this a little at a time because life is a learning process.

Anyway, I will post tomorrow.

OUT, J

The many changes to occur are going to start tomorrow after the elections.  We will finally find out who will be our next President of the United States of America.  This person whether Barack Obama or John McCain will be featured everywhere.  Whoever it is, will have the trouble of his lifetime to get this country and this world back in to order.  It will probably take a good 10 years before this country sees any major positive feedback in the economy.  Unless there is a miracle of something that could happen.  I hope there is.

May be people will stop being greedy and accept there will be cap salaries for all jobs/careers.  No body should get more than 1 million dollars no matter what.  Baseball players don’t even deserve any of the money they get paid by these ball clubs.  It amazes me how many Baseball players who are paid muti-millions of dollars will no longer be the star they once were. Baseball is America’s Pass time.

How could this be? I thought they were given the money because they were stars. Not even a star in the sky is worth anything like what these baseball players get.

We need to rethink America.  We need to achieve something so big in which people remain humble and proud of who they are.  Being true to yourself is the most important part of life.  Patience is another. Humble people are very important in this world to spread the word of love and cherishment.  I hope this new President of the United States of America can live his life with the same satisfaction as everybody else.  I hope this person can speak to the public like he is one of us, not above us.  No individual human being is above another human being. We are just here to be human and to appreciate what we all bring to the table of life.  Life’s journey speaks for itself.  People need to understand what a positive perspective can do to help everybody become an achievement in this world.  Any achievement anybody makes is not always big and not always small, it all depends on you and your potential.

If you have potential to do well, you can be the best. It all depends on how you focus and live your life. I hope this Autism site shows the whole world, Autism Spectrum Disorders is to be taken seriously by saying these types of people like myself can or will continue to be a contributing members of society.  We can do the same things like Neurotypicals, but we just need encouragement.  We don’t want people creating a vision of no Autism Spectrum Disorders in this world.  Autism Spectrum Disorders is something that just is, and needs to be accepted, encouraged, and supported not turned against us to discourage us.  We have potentials far greater than what Neurotypicals know and see.

The next President of the United States of America will be the person who will hopefully continue to bring light to the subject of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental disabilities like what the ABC news site has given all of you.

This is what I need to say tonight.

Vote tomorrow and hope your candidate can make it. Please get your voice out, I will!

Positive achievements needs to be embraced and spread to others. Hopefully others who achieve similar things, remember who gave them their achievement(s).  Unfortunately, there is always somebody who forgets who got them where they are today.  I will never forget who got me where I am today. I will always be indebted to everybody who helped me out in every step of the way.

For every great man or woman,  there is many great men and women deep within them. Remember it and don’t forget it!

OUT, J

It is highly imperative for anybody providing social skills programs to help any adult with an Autism Spectrum Disorder like myself become the fully independent, contributing member of society.  There are so many people in the world who do not fully understand the Autism Spectrum to this day.  I know it is a very hard concept for a lot of people to understand.  The Autism Spectrum is so variable and so different in so many ways.  When I see my friends at the Adaptations program, GRASP or my ASAN meetup who are on the Autism Spectrum I find we are all similiar and also have our differences.  I find the program at Adaptations needs to be changed and I think it is time for a change.  This program has many people with many different disabilities not just the Autism Spectrum.  Different disabilities require different attention.  

I find the program at Adaptations needs to address this issue.  I really liked the program last year when the two directors who left were running it, but still needed this issue addressed.  The current director needs to rethink some of the things she does for the program.  I wonder when the program says this is for people in their 20’s and 30’s, is there really just people in their 20’s and 30’s.  I think there should be an inclusion of older ages as well.  Where are all the people who are on the Autism Spectrum who are older than 40 supposed to go to for social skills?  There are many people who are on the Autism Spectrum who learn social skills at different paces and when you mix them with other people with disabilities, I feel it just does not work out.    There needs to be a way to help people on the Autism Spectrum like me and people with other types of disabliities so that all our needs are considered.  For instance, a person on the Autism Spectrum is different than a person with a mental illness.  There is even a remarkable difference when you also include a person with Down Syndrome or any other developmental disability or even just ADD/ADHD.

The world needs to think about how to handle all these different types of needs.  We need to even continue to help those who are children and even help certain senior citizens with developmental disabilities.

Think about it!

OUT, J

Everybody who wants to read up on Autism Spectrum Disorders should first read the book, “The Complete Guide to Asperger Syndrome” by Dr. Tony Attwood, Ph.D.  I find this book is so helpful for even a person who feels they might even be on the Autism Spectrum.

I really love this book so much. It is like the bible for ASD.

I have so many blessings in my life right now and I owe it all to my mother and somebody I met for the first time exactly 3 years ago.

Have a great evening!

posting later on,

OUT, J

I find there are people in this world who are very humble along the way in their life. George, the person I interviewed on this website is one of those people.  Another person who is just as humble as George is the person I met today with my younger brother at the Bronx Zoo.  It seems to me being humble is very rare in this world.  Sometimes I feel whenever I meet somebody who is humble, I want to cherish the moment so much since being humble is rare in this world.  I remember the original directors of Adaptations were very humble people.  I know I must try and give the new director a chance.  It is so very important.  Yes, I did not like something which happened regarding myself, but no body is perfect.

I don’t want to be known as the person in this world who is not humble.  How do I tell people in a way that things are not going the way they should go?

I loved Adaptations to begin with, but now I feel the program is not going so well.  Though, I really love Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) so much because it helps me.  It is the best drama therapy program in the New York City area to help anybody on the Autism Spectrum or even other people with disabilities.   The people who run the CANY program are very humble.

Anyway, I wish more people could be very humble in this world like George, this person I met today, and even other people I have met through the years including my immediate family.  I also feel my grandmother can be very humble too.  I don’t like seeing a person who is egotistical making feel like I am nothing.  I am person who has so much tenacity in which I will not give up on anything and I will be successful with every attempt at what I do.  I will continue to always strive for more and be more successful.

I want Adaptations to be a program where they help everybody in the program achieve the social skills, job training, and eventually independence so that someday they will only need minimal support from programs like these.  I know I sound very angry, but I have every right to be.  I find the interns at Adaptations this year are the only ones who run the program who are humble.  I really admire a humble person.

I will post later on and I hope everybody understands how being humble in this world is so very important.

Have a wonderful evening,

OUT, J

PS thank g-d the Seaver Center is involved this year!  Kindness and Humbleness in everyone please!

I wonder how most people live with certain people in their lives even with all their antics and shtick.  It is interesting to know before the 1960’s, it was rarity people all over the world couples would get a divorce.  Most people just dealt with whoever they were living with and tried to make the most out of it.  I find whoever dealt with the people they were living with who seemed negative and miserable or who were very anxious people, are those people who were the strongest individuals the world has probably ever seen.

Nowadays when a couple gets married most of the time they do not stay married for much longer.  Most of the time it is because one of the spouses can’t take anymore of the other spouses antics or shtick.  It is really sad to see how these spouses do not have the same strength as the other spouses who dealt with the same stuff or worse before 1960.  I hear about how my Grandpa who dealt with my living Grandma , and I hear about how my Grandma dealt with my living Grandpa.

I wonder how we all deal with these people who we say we want to marry and marry them for the rest of our lives.  I am not married yet, but I don’t want to ever get married because there are too many stresses going on during the time frame in which people have to spend the rest of their lives with the person they choose.  By choosing to end the marriage early and getting a divorce, you show the whole world how weak you are because I see how strong all these other spouses were when they were married before 1960.  It amazes me to see a couple who has been married for over 60 years because it goes to show the inner strength deep down inside of them to be able to handle all the antics and shtick.

Marriage is something that most of us take for granted these days.  I hear in the news how people get married in their 20’s and 30’s and wonder to myself about how they could do it.  The divorce rate is nearly skyrocketing these days and mostly because of the individuals getting married in their 20’s.   Inner strength is a good trait to have, if you can get married and keep the marriage going till your 61st Anniversary and many more,  you have definitely accomplished a great feat.

Sometimes I see people who are even in their 30’s who wind up getting divorced because they just can’t take it anymore and want to go and have fun finding another woman or man.  Most of these people wind up never finding anything more and regret ever getting divorced in the first place.  Though there are sometimes I find even with many friends of mine who get married, divorced, and then they do find the individual to love them for the rest of their life.  I have a special friend who has found someone she has fallen in love with and I am happy she is not one of those people still searching.

Love can be very hard.  You may find someone you love and you may feel like this is the one, but you must try very hard to work it out as much as you can with the strength inside of you.  By using the strength inside of you, it will help guide you through the marriage.

I have not found anybody I can fall in love with quite yet, and for some reason I am very close to not wanting to be married at all.  Since there are so many things involved in a marriage in which you have to deal with the inner workings of your spouse and your own self.  I give all the support to those people who had to deal with a spouse they just could not deal with at all, but lived with them till they had to die.  I also give all the support to those spouses who are living with those spouses who are tough.  These spouses living with rough marriages are trying their hardest to live with a spouse and make a marriage work.  Those people are really strong.

For those who could not handle the other spouse and had no choice, but to get a divorce, I respect and honor your decision.  It must be really hard for many people to build up the strength inside of them to handle the spouse they eventually want to divorce.  Remember it is not the fact that you could not have the strength to handle the spouse you were married to, but it is the learning experience to develop the strength inside of you to eventually handle life a lot better.  Life is a learning experience to which we must all live trying to build the strength up we need to succeed in life.

The same goes for when parents who live with their children who grow up to be adults and children growing up dealing with their parents.  We all need to build up the strength inside of us to live the rest of our lives.  We seem to live our lives trying to build up strength to handle any obstacle which passes our way.   A life is journey which travels through the fields whether it is a city street, a road on a highway, or just simple wooded trail in the forest.  We must have the confidence and strength inside to be able to walk around with this person and help the person out no matter what.

Sometimes I know there are times where we don’t even want to look at this person because the person makes us want to vomit.  We must also realize the person who we don’t want to look at may have had a rough life because they could not build up the strength inside like most other people.  It does take a lot of work for some people to have the same strength other people may have strength so easily.  We must all please be very courteous and helpful to those who are having trouble developing the same strength you may find so easily.

Marriage is a commitment which only the strongest people in the world can be able to handle.  People who are not as strong as they should be, should look at how other people who are stronger and can make a marriage last.   My parents have been happily married for a very long time already and I hope when they reach their 40th Anniversary, they look back and see how their strength developed through the years.   Every marriage does not have the strength to begin with and needs to develop the strength over time.   It is a part of the inner workings of marriage.

To answer my question about how most people can handle a difficult spouse, I say the spouse who can handle their very difficult spouse is probably one of the most strongest individuals in the world.

Dealing with a spouse, sibling, or even a friend you are trying to help can be at times the most difficult tasks for anybody handle.

An Aspie like myself can be at times very difficult to handle, but as each day passes I become a better person which to those trying to help may seem so minute at times.   Those minute moments I am becoming a better person is still an accomplishment even though it may not seem like one at the time.  By the time I reach my 40th birthday which is 11 years from now, I will be just about complete as a great person in this world.  Asperger Syndrome does not need to be cured, it just needs the support and consideration to help get where we ought to be at.  I am lucky enough to have so many people in my life including my family, my boss, coworkers, and so many other friends in my life who are in Ultrasound or just a good friend from who I met at Adaptations or even other friends to help me through the process.  I am realizing my life is what it is and I can be a better person as each day passes by.

I am someday am going to make all these people proud of me for the man I will become someday.  Even those people who were my teachers in nursery school through College Life and even other people who crossed my paths.    Whoever crosses my path in life is meant to be the person who will help me be the better man I will eventually become.

Have a good day and I will post later on.  Damn it, I have to finish the vacuuming now.

OUT, J

I find being flexible and adaptive could be very hard at times.   I am in a program at the JCC Manhattan called Adaptations which teaches members of the program many different social concepts.  I am finding I am not the only one in the program struggling with being flexible and adaptive with people I interact with such as my family, friends, and new people I meet.   Believe or not there are many other members of the program who are struggling with this social concept just like me.  Sometimes I find the members are struggling the same as me while other times I find there are members who are struggling worse than me.  There are a select few members I observe in the program who seem to not have much trouble being adaptive and flexible even though at times they will also have their struggles as well.  One of the members who I have become very good friends with happens to adapt with ease.  Even though there are some times when he is not, I think everybody at times can be that way too.  He also seems to be the most patient in Adaptations.  When I go to the different groups with him like Social Skills or even the Creative Alternatives of New York program, I watch how he operates.  He allows everybody else to speak first.  When he eventually speaks I wait until he finishes completing whatever he needs to say.  When we are in groups I find there are other members who tend to interrupt him trying to finish his statements he is trying to make.  I don’t say anything.  I know whoever is leading the groups for that day will tell the other members to let him speak also.   Anybody who is in a group whether formally or informally needs to realize everybody has to be listened to as well.

Patience is a virtue.  We need to be patient with ourselves and with other people.  Everybody is different and speaks at different paces even learns at different paces.  Not everyone is the same.  I know when I am working at my job doing my ultrasounds I have had about 4 students who I had to teach.  The school who sent me on externships wanted me to teach these 4 students.  Each of these students were at different periods of my life working at my job.  I am realizing they are all very different.  The first student I had was the smartest student I had by far with similar tenacity to me.  I knew it and I tried to work with her as much as I could.  Though she had trouble conversing and learning English.  English is the hardest language to learn.  I find if somebody is born in a English spoken family, they are already set for life.  People who are born in families who speak other languages in the world will have a harder time conversing with others since English is the main language of the world.  I think it is important for everybody to speak more than one language.   Anyway, I also have to remember I was once a student myself who would do whatever it took to succeed.  Just look at me now!  I know I still need to accomplish a couple of more things and I know I will since nothing will stop me.

I just need to be flexible and adaptive just like the program is called, “Adaptations.”  It is a unique name, but also a name which relates to what life is all about.  We all have to try and adapt to our surroundings.  I know I needed to adapt in the past and I need to continue to try to adapt even though at times in my life I just want things to be the same.   Unfortunately life is not the same.  We have to adapt to different changes in our lives everyday.  When I first was told my boss wanted to hire me I was in shock.  I could not believe somebody actually wanted to hire me.   I was hired to do a skilled job where I would be helping a doctor make diagnoses for heart and vascular conditions.  I knew I had to adapt to this big change in my life.  I realized though I went to school just to learn how to scan and be a contributing member of society.  Now I am a contributing member of society in the medical community.   People like George always told me when I was a student to think about others who want to succeed in the future.  Right now I see a lot of technologists in the field who are working and who will retire someday.   Once they retire, they need to know there will be somebody in the future who can do the same functions as them.   The realization is we all need to teach everybody.  We can not be afraid of teaching a student because the benefits outweigh the risks.  Besides a student should never forget who taught them.  For every great person, there is another great person inside of them.  Actually I have at least thousands of great people inside of me.  It took many people to help me get where I am at today.  I guess Adaptations was created in the first place to teach people with disabilities the social concepts they lack.  This program is making me realize more about what George told me about teaching students who want to join the Ultrasound community.  If a program to teach social concepts was never created, then the people who already know the social concepts would seem selfish about what they already know.  The same idea is genuine for the Ultrasound community and any other career or job.

In fact, I probably am a bit more adaptive then I thought I was even though I realize I have to be more adaptive in life.  I am always going to learn from my very patient and flexible friend who helps me out a lot.  I am glad I am in a program called Adaptations and I hope someday I can be a lot more adaptive then I am today.  I also hope other members who are struggling with being adaptive and flexible can do it as well.

posting again soon,

OUT, J

Evolution has changed many things in our past in regards to living cells.  A single living cell in Human beings for instance has changed many aspects of our mind and body.  Our brains have changed considerably over centuries since the beginning of the human race.  History has shown the brain to have changed the most.  The brain and mind changes all the time.  We are learning many things in our minds every day.  Our minds have experienced changes in our lives which then experience changes in our behavior.  Many people have recognized very recently there are two types of minds in the world, A Neurotypical mind and an Autistic mind.  A neurotypical mind has many of the instincts and social behaviors in which an Autistic mind does not.  An Autistic mind has quite the opposite of the mind of a Neurotypical.  An Autistic mind has to try and adapt to the Neurotypical mind because the Autistic mind is not accepted as much in this world.   The Autistic mind thinks about different survival tactics.   My Autistic mind which is on the other side of the spectrum has observed many different Neurotypicals and their behavior.   The observations I have noticed in my life about Neurotypical society in men and women are the social aspects of their behavior and the instinctive feelings they have.  For instance, the instincts they get at home, at work, and with their friends.   Neurotypicals know how to change their instincts as soon as they leave one area such as home to another area such as work.  Home and work are two different areas of a person’s life.  At home a person may act one way, but at work they will act differently.

I know you may feel I need to explain more, and I will explain further tonight…

have a good day,

out, J